Can you say: “out of touch”?

The Norwegian spring has turned suddenly back into winter with a sharp fall in temperature.

After 7 more inches reported on the upper mountain yesterday, we have a 7 day total of 31 inches on the upper mountain.

It was spitting snow as four U.S. Forest Service workers took snow samples and took snowpack measurements Monday at two remote areas within the Lassen National Forest where snowfall is somewhat of a rarity.

But the tiny flakes falling didn't add anything to the snow that had already fallen onto the ground at those two locations.

With snowpack levels statewide way above average, the four-person crew working in conjunction with the state Department of Water Resources, took measurements at McElroy Pass south of Old Station and at Burney Springs near Burney Mountain.

President Trump’s attempts to drain the swamp are being undermined by one of his key administrators.

Two storm systems are taking aim at eastern Utah and western Colorado this week, according to the National Weather Service.

In a press briefing at the Pentagon today, African Command leader Gen. Thomas Waldhauser announced that the US intends to keep ground troops in Libya for the foreseeable future to support “friendly forces,” and to “degrade” the ISIS forces that remain in the country.

Waldhauser did not specify how many US troops are in Libya now, or how many will stay, but did estimate that there were less than 200 ISIS fighters left in Libya. The US had announced the end of the anti-ISIS campaign in Libya back in December, but never fully withdrew from the country.

The US forces were in Libya trying to help the “unity” government defeat ISIS in the city of Sirte. US officials repeatedly claimed the city was totally surrounded, and that no ISIS fighters would get away, though when the fighting finally ended, a substantial number of ISIS fighters did in fact get away.

Gore, who was speaking at an event to promote his latest global warming propaganda documentary – An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power – said the Brexit vote in Britain last summer was the result of “political instability” created by the “stress” caused by climate-change induced chaos in the Middle East.

It all began in Syria, Gore explained, unchallenged by a fawning interviewer from the film magazine Empire.

He proceeded to outline his lavishly complex climate conspiracy theory involving climate change, Syria, and Wikileaks:

Dr. Michael Mann emphasizes says we are already seeing global impacts; within one to two decades we are on track for an iceless Arctic

A vegetarian diet does not necessarily have a low impact on the environment

I don’t even know how to set this up, so I’m just going to say it. Chelsea Clinton– the same Chelsea Clinton receiving an award from Variety for literally no reason– is attempting to link global warming to diabetes.

Irish motorists are warned to take extreme care around the country with rain and snow making for treacherous driving conditions.

A Status Yellow weather warning for snow and ice is in place until 10am today and the AA is reporting wet, icy and slippy roads in many areas.

In Tipperary the Lismore/Clogheen Rd is described as impassable at the moment near the Vee at Bohernagore due to snowy conditions.

It's snowing in Providence as an arctic front moves into Southern New England on this Wednesday morning.

Another winter blizzard is hitting Churchill, where people are already desperate for groceries that have been delayed since the last blizzard two weeks ago.

"A lot of families are suffering because they have young children and they need milk," said local resident Lana Bilenduke.

No bread or vegetables are for sale at the local store and meat is scarce, she said.

"Everyone's in a crisis until we get our groceries in."

A freeze warning has been issued for The T&D Region from 11 p.m. tonight into 11 a.m. Wednesday.

The National Weather Service is forecasting temperatures in Orangeburg to drop to 29 degrees tonight.

Snow blanketed the Chicago area Monday, making roads slick and leading to hundreds of flight cancellations at the city's airports.

More than a foot of snow is expected to fall across Massachusetts on Tuesday and into early Wednesday morning. Snow will first begin to fall from the south coast to northern Massachusetts earlier than the rest of the state, between 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. Other regions of the state will see snowfall soon after, past 8 a.m. Tuesday morning.

"We woke up, and we saw that it was snowing," said Wilmington resident Alison Rogers. "We didn't really think it could be much, and then it just kept coming down.

Close to an inch fell in some areas of Wilmington. Parents and kids alike hit the hills sledding with anything from a boogie board to an inner tube.

Many were just excited for the chance to play in the snow for the first time in a while.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was already on her way to the airport on Monday to fly to Washington for her first meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump when he rang her to postpone the trip due to the approach of a winter storm.

A home in Webster, N.Y. has been encased in ice thanks to the harsh wind and waves from Lake Ontario. (John Kucko/Instagram)

President Donald Trump’s choice to run the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is one of the best decisions he ever made. The EPA uses regulations and power to hurt businesses and destroy jobs.

Plus, EPA employees have been caught in major scandals in recent years, including employees who were never fired despite rarely – if ever – showing up for work.

Now, the leader of the EPA’s environmental justice program has resigned, thanks to Trump’s threat to slash funding for the program.

Trump doesn’t support the myth of man-made global warming, and this top liberal at the EPA is gone!

A narrow band of heavy lake-effect snow dropped more than a foot of snow in parts of the Twin Ports this morning -- and little more than a dusting just a few miles away.

About 50 million people found themselves under blizzard or winter storm warnings on Sunday as the Northeast braced itself for winter's last hurrah.

Winter Storm Stella is expected to sweep the New York region starting Monday with possible blizzard conditions. It could bring the season's biggest snowstorm and dump up to 24 inches across parts of New York and New Jersey.

New Yorkers began stocking up on groceries, salt and emergency supplies as they prepared for a snow day inside.

Forecasters at the National Weather Service said Saturday there's a blizzard watch for coastal regions including New York City and Boston from Monday night into Tuesday.

There is also a winter storm watch for a larger area that includes much of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, upstate New York and New England.

Ninety-seven years ago, Jean Haley and Martha Williams entered the world together. They died tragically together outside Haley's home over the weekend, most likely of hypothermia, according to police in Barrington, Rhode Island.

Snow squalls led to a number of pileups on roadways in Pennsylvania on Friday, including a 30-vehicle pileup on Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County that killed one person.

The National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning in Hawaii this week. While that may sound peculiar, it’s not all that extraordinary. It snows nearly every year on the Big Island’s tallest mountains, where the warning was issued.

But during that blizzard, which lasted late Tuesday to early Wednesday, the Big Island received more snow than Denver has received all year, according to Fox 31 Denver.

There's so much snow in the West right now that scientists can't even measure it. Their tools simply don't work.

"We're not even close," hydrologist Jeff Anderson told the Reno Gazette-Journal after sticking a tube more than 16 feet into the snowpack on Slide Mountain without touching the ground. Despite the scientists' struggle, the massive amounts of snow spell good news for the drought-stricken region

Do you want to build a snowman in paradise? Hawaii's mountainous peaks picked up 8 inches of snow overnight this week after a blizzard hit the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii.

It's snowing in paradise. A blizzard warning was issued Wednesday for Hawaii's high mountain summits of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on the Big Island.

The National Weather Service said snowfall totals of 6 to 10 inches are possible, along with wind gusts up to 65 mph, which will reduce visibility to less than 1/4 of a mile. Thundersnow is also possible. Temperatures should be in the 30s.

"If you must travel, have a winter survival kit with you," the weather service advised. The blizzard warning is in effect until Thursday morning.

It was snowing big, fluffy flakes over Vancouver on Tuesday morning, but as soon as it stopped, the tennis players and motorcyclists came out.

“I’ve got a guy out on a test ride right now,” manager Ryan Boehm said at noon over the phone from Vancouver motorcycle dealer Daytona Motorsports. “He waited until the snow stopped, he’s riding a brand-new 2015 Yamaha Tenere.”

Boehm said that despite a colder-than-usual January and February, business was brisk.

The French Alps are looking good after significant snowfall which is set to continue through the weekend.

A major snow storm is bringing powder conditions to ski areas across much of mainland Europe at present.

A major climate-change study predicts temperatures in Metro Vancouver will exceed those of present-day Southern California in the coming decades.

A new study produced by a University of Wisconsin-Madison geoscientist and Northwestern astrophysicist presents an explanation of the fluctuations of the earth's temperatures that global warming alarmists are going to make sure to bury: The cycle of changes in the climate over the millennia is a result of changes in the amount of solar radiation, in part caused by small changes in the orbits of Earth and Mars.

It's been really bloody hot in Australia recently. But now it's snowing. In summer. Yes, really.

Despite the recent warmth in the central and eastern U.S., one city with a population of at least 100,000 people has officially surpassed the 100-inch mark for snowfall this winter. Syracuse, New York, reached this milestone last Thursday as Winter Storm Pluto departed the Northeast.

Ms. D.S. spotted this article, where Governor Moon Beam is - you guessed it - blaming the potential failure of the dam on "global warming," not poor maintenance and certainly not on "deliberate action" of other types:

Revelations by the Mail on Sunday about how world leaders were misled over global warming by the main source of climate data have triggered a probe by the US Congress.

Republican Lamar Smith, who chairs the influential House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology, announced the inquiry last week in a letter to Benjamin Friedman, acting chief of the organisation at the heart of the MoS disclosures, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

He renewed demands, first made in 2015, for all internal NOAA documents and communications between staff behind a controversial scientific paper, which made a huge impact on the Paris Agreement on climate change of that year, signed by figures including David Cameron and Barack Obama.

Kirkwood Mountain in Alpine County has reached 500 inches of snow on Sunday afternoon, according to officials with the Kirkwood Mountain Resort.

Sydney, most of New South Wales as well as southeastern Cordoba, Argentina were badly hit by massive hailstorms with huge hailstones the size of orange!

Carbon dioxide, we are told, traps heat that has been irradiated by the oceans, and this warms the oceans and melts the polar ice caps. While this seems a plausible proposition at first glance, when one actually examines it closely a major flaw emerges.

In a nutshell, water takes a lot of energy to heat up, and air doesn’t contain much. In fact, on a volume/volume basis, the ratio of heat capacities is about 3300 to 1. This means that to heat 1 litre of water by 1?C it would take 3300 litres of air that was 2?C hotter, or 1 litre of air that was about 3300?C hotter!

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. If you ran a cold bath and then tried to heat it by putting a dozen heaters in the room, does anyone believe that the water would ever get hot?

The gods have answered the call of skiers, snowmobilers and dog mushers, dumping mounds of snow in northern New England following little snow last season during the warmest winter on record in some spots.

The biggest snowstorms of this season, followed by days of flurries, have unloaded more than 2 feet of snow — higher amounts in the mountains — in the past week across Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

"I haven't seen skiing this good in Vermont in over 20 years," said Tom Luxon, of Norwich, on Thursday as he was leaving the slopes at Burke Mountain.

In its biggest year to date, the United States solar market nearly doubled its annual record, topping out at 14,626 megawatts of solar PV installed in 2016.

This represents a 95 percent increase over the previous record of 7,493 megawatts installed in 2015. GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) previewed this data in advance of their upcoming U.S. Solar Market Insight report, set to be released on March 9.

Nuclear lobbyists and some scientists are under the mistaken impression that nuclear power is virtually carbon-free, and thus must be pushed to prevent runaway global warming (if you don’t believe in global warming, please forward this to your friends, family and colleagues who do so).

But this is a complete and total myth …

Who knows what’s going to happen over the rest of the winter, but thus far I think the big “where-were-you-when” moments of this season came during the first three weeks of January, when the snowfall was relentless.

Central Mainers are digging out from a powerful winter storm that unleashed blizzard conditions across the region on Monday, as strong winds and heavy bands of snow shut down some roads and kept plow truck drivers, tow trucks and emergency responders busy.

Snow as far as the eye can see.

Tonight, the northeast is getting pounded again with a severe winter storm.

Conditions are so bad that hundreds of flights nationwide to places like Boston or providence, Rhode Island were either canceled or delayed Sunday.

Atlantic Canada was being blasted by a powerful winter storm Monday that cancelled flights and shuttered everything from schools and municipal offices to businesses and hospital services throughout the region.

State officials want people to take their time getting to work Monday morning to allow crews a chance to clear the roads after another round of snow, slush and ice.

The Kapitan Dranitsyn icebreaker has been marooned for around a month due to freezing sea off the coast of Chukotka in the extreme east of Russia.

This week the vessel had to be connected by cable to a shore electricity supply in the port of Pevek so the crew can survive on board until May or even June, when they can set sail back to Arkhangelsk.

Another winter blast of snow and strong winds moved into the Northeast on Sunday to the delight of some and the consternation of others, just days after the biggest storm of the season dumped up to 19 inches of snow in the region.

Two Russian icebreakers have become stuck in metre thick ice fields, on their return from a journey to escort supplies to Russia’s northernmost port.

Light snow fell across the Midlands on Friday morning – as forecasters warned the UK would be colder than ICELAND this weekend.

Massive snow accumulations and forecasted rain and snow prompted the commissioners to call a special meeting Tuesday in order to discuss the county’s disaster/emergency situation.

A winter storm warning was in effect until 6 p.m. as up to 2 inches an hour of windswept snow continued to fall across the Big Apple — with total accumulations of between 10 and 14 inches expected, forecasters said Thursday.

The National Weather Service also issued a blizzard warning for all of Long Island until 6 p.m.

Watch out for icy spots early Wednesday morning with cold air stuck down at the surface. Temperatures struggled to warm overnight because of a cold high to our north locking in the low level cold. Ski country is waking up to some nice new snow, but a layer of ice on top of the new 4-8" of snow. Not ideal. Nothing the groomers can't handle. The early morning runs may be challenging and heavy, but things will soften and melt during the afternoon.

It’s hard to believe that after two days that feel like May, we are talking about snow on the horizon, but that is the case in the WTOP area.

Remember when snow fell in the Sahara Desert for the first time in 37 years at the end of last year? We thought we wouldn't see such a rare spectacle at least for another decade...

But we were wrong. Over the past weekend, temperatures plummeted across the arid United Arab Emirates giving Emiratis the opportunity to frolick in the snow!

Pocono residents can expect cold, snowy weather over the next two days, with a tough commute Thursday morning.

Looking at forecasts that call for 8 to 14 inches of fluffy snow Thursday, officials across Connecticut are preparing for difficult travel.

The Mail on Sunday today reveals astonishing evidence that the organisation that is the world’s leading source of climate data rushed to publish a landmark paper that exaggerated global warming and was timed to influence the historic Paris Agreement on climate change.

A high-level whistleblower has told this newspaper that America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) breached its own rules on scientific integrity when it published the sensational but flawed report, aimed at making the maximum possible impact on world leaders including Barack Obama and David Cameron at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015.

A group of prominent Republicans and business leaders, including former Treasury Secretaries Hank Paulson and James Baker, will meet with some of President Donald Trump’s top advisers at the White House Wednesday to push a plan to tax carbon dioxide in exchange for lifting a slew of environmental regulations.

Wild weather over the next 48 hours could see near-record warm weather in the Tri-State area on Wednesday, followed by up to 10 inches of snow on Thursday thanks to Winter Storm Niko.

Already the National Weather Service has warned people against traveling, citing life threatening conditions.

In a warning released this afternoon, the NWS warned people to make sure
they have survival kits in their cars.

Snow will break out during the morning hours in southern New England, and then later in the day farther north. As the precipitation fills in though, warmer air will also begin working up from south to north. That means snow will change to a wintry mix and then rain south of Boston by about lunch time.

By the evening commute it will still be snowing in much of northern New England, with a wintry mix somewhere along the Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont borders. South of there we’ll likely have mostly just plain rain.

Around 28,000 customers without power across region. (Check your utility)

• Both directions of I-90 are open at Snoqualmie pass. Chains are required unless your vehicle has 4WD or AWD. The pass was closed Monday intermittently for avalanche control and to clear collisions.

• Hundreds of schools have posted closures or delays for Tuesday in anticipation of snowy and icy conditions, including Tacoma and Seattle School Districts, which are both two hours late.

• Most flights scheduled to leave Sea-Tac Airport Tuesday are scheduled on-time, but icy conditions and backup from Monday's canceled flights could cause delays

Warmer temperatures and rain atop weeks of heavy snow has made for a higher risk of avalanches, and one snowslide blocked lanes of Highway 20 west of Santiam Pass for a time late Sunday afternoon.

The slide was reported shortly after 4 p.m. in the Hogg Rock area, a scene of frequent avalanches about two miles west of the Santiam Pass summit, according to ODOT's TripCheck site.