1. ABSTRACT
2. DISCUSSION
3. THE AIR BURST
4. COMET DUST
5. ANALYSIS
6. CALIFORNIA RESPONDS TO THE IMPACT THREAT
7. CONCLUSIONS
8. APPENDIX A - THE SOUTHWEST CHINA DROUGHT
9. APPENDIX B - GLOBAL COOLING
10. APPENDIX C - FRIGID PRECIPITATION AT LOW AND MID LATITUDES
11. APPENDIX D - NO PRECIPITATION WHERE NORMALLY ANTICIPATED

DISCUSSION

THE AIR BURST

Figure 1. The Blast Is Thought To Be Due To The Atmospheric Entry Of An Asteroid More Than 30 Feet In Diameter

• ASTEROID EXPLOSION OVER INDONESIA RAISES FEARS ABOUT EARTH'S DEFENCES - 27 Oct 2009
  An asteroid that exploded in the Earth’s atmosphere with the energy of three Hiroshima bombs this month has reignited fears about our planet’s defences against space impacts.
  On 8 October, the rock crashed into the atmosphere above South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The blast was heard by monitoring stations 10,000 miles away, according to a report by scientists at the University of Western Ontario.
  The asteroid, estimated to have been around 10 meters (30ft) across, hit the atmosphere at an estimated 45,000mph. The sudden deceleration caused it to heat up rapidly and explode with the force of 50,000 tons of TNT.
  Luckily, due to the height of the explosion – estimated at between 15 and 20 km (nine to 12 miles) above sea level – no damage was caused on the ground.
• ASTEROID EXPLOSION OVER INDONESIA - 10/28/2009 - Video A 10-meter wide asteroid hits Earth and explodes in the atmosphere with the energy of a small atomic bomb. Frightened by thunderous sounds and shaking walls, people rush out of their homes, thinking that an earthquake is in progress. All they see is a twisting trail of debris in the mid-day sky:
• INDONESIAN ASTEROID - October 29, 2009
  This really happened on Oct. 8th around 11 am local time in the coastal town of Bone, Indonesia. The Earth-shaking blast received remarkably little coverage in Western press, but meteor scientists have given it their full attention. "The explosion triggered infrasound sensors of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) more than 10,000 km away," report researchers Elizabeth Silber and Peter Brown of the Univ. of Western Ontario in an Oct. 19th press release. Their analysis of the infrasound data revealed an explosion at coordinates 4.5S, 120E (close to Bone) with a yield of about 50 kton of TNT. That's two to three times more powerful than World War II-era atomic bombs.
  The asteroid that caused the blast was not known before it hit and took astronomers completely by surprise.

The timing of this impact did not take the VULCAN, COMETS AND THE IMPENDING CATASTROPHE web site by surprise. The 8 October air-burst occurred almost at the center of the predicted impact window of 7 October +/- 6 days. Could the air-burst caused by this meteor be responsible for the observed drought and global cooling? It seems unlikely. But suppose there were ten more like it, or several ten times as large. Then a ratio of 900 times smaller than Hoyle's estimate results. Regardless, a glance at the droughts (Appendix A), Global cooling (Appendix B) and record snow falls (Appendix C) occurring posts October 2009 suggest that Fred Hoyle's estimations are well justified. Noted that there could have been more air-bursts - but secrecy has been imposed on this natural phenomena:

• MILITARY HUSH-UP: INCOMING SPACE ROCKS NOW CLASSIFIED - 10 June 2009
  A recent U.S. military policy decision now explicitly states that observations by hush-hush government spacecraft of incoming bolides and fireballs are classified secret and are not to be released, SPACE.com has learned.
  The upshot: Space rocks that explode in the atmosphere are now classified.
  "It's baffling to us why this would suddenly change," said one scientist familiar with the work. "It's unfortunate because there was this great synergy...a very good cooperative arrangement. Systems were put into dual-use mode where a lot of science was getting done that couldn't be done any other way. It's a regrettable change in policy."
  Scientists say not only will research into the threat from space be hampered, but public understanding of sometimes dramatic sky explosions will be diminished, perhaps leading to hype and fear of the unknown.
• WEATHER RECORDS ARE A STATE SECRET - 01 Aug 2009
  The IPCC's computer models have proved just as wrong in predicting global temperatures as the Met Office has been in forecasting those mild winters and heatwave summers, says Christopher Booker.

COMET DUST

Figure 2. Comet Dust In The Atmosphere - Revealed By The Space Shuttle Discovery Launch On 05 Apr 2010. The October 2009 air-burst(s) may have injected a modest amount of comet dust into our atmosphere. The recent launch of the Space Shuttle seems to have revealed its presence in dramatic fashion:

• COSMIC CLIMATE CHANGE: SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY - STS 131 LEAVES SPECTACULAR DRAGON TRAILS IN THE SKY - 05 Apr 2010
  The photographer's reference to this looking like a 'comet-trail' is a clue to why this launch was so spectacular: the skies overhead are laden with comet dust.
• AMAZING LIFTOFF - April 5, 2010
  Space shuttle Discovery left Earth this morning at 6:21 am EDT in a spectacular dawn launch from Cape Canaveral. The combination of sunrise colors and the comet-like appearance of the departing shuttle astonished onlookers. "It was an awesome sight,"
  "It was the most incredible launch I have ever seen," says long-time shuttle watcher and part-time NASA medic Dr. Mark Staples of Shands Hospital. "Definitely, it was one of the most spectacular!" agreed Jim Burchfield of nearby St. Cloud, Florida. And Terry Allshouse of Leesburg, Florida, ranked it as "the best of the ten I have witnessed." More superlatives may be found among the links below.

1. In some areas, it blocked sunlight needed to evaporate water required for rainfall.
2. In some areas, it blocked sunlight simply cooling the atmosphere.
3. In some areas, it provided nucleating particles for precipitation (snow and rain).

ANALYSIS

The National Climatic Data Center reports that 1,344 daily lowest minimum temperature records were set in October 2009, and 616 daily highest maximum records were set. October 2009 was the 3rd Coldest for US in 115 Years. See Table 1.

Table 1
Asteroid Impact And Resulting Weather Changes

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Place - Time	Latitude deg.	Longitude deg.	Weather Event
Queenstown New Zealand - Oct. 2009	45.02S	168.67E	lowest mean minimum temperature for October since records began in 1873
Dunedin New Zealand - Oct. 2009	45.88S	170.48E	recorded its lowest mean minimum for the month since records began in 1947 below-normal rainfall of 40mm – only 60% of normal
Bone Indonesia - 8 Oct. 2009	4.75S	120.17E	Asteroid Air-Burst
Honolulu, HI - 4 Apr. 2010	21.30N	157.83W	This morning's low temperature broke three records for this date
Yunnan China - Mar./Apr 2010	21.14N 29.25N	97.53E 106.20E	the drought has lasted for six months The region has seen no rain in six months
Miami FL - Oct. 2009	25.82N	80.28W	all-time hottest October record was set
Orlando, FL - 20 Mar. 2010	28.50N	81.37W	Coldest Winter Ever
Dallas, Tex. - 12 Feb 2010	32.77N	105W	The all-time 24- hour snowfall record was broken
Washington DC - 10 Feb. 2010	38.88N	77.03W	The seasonal snowfall total in Washington DC stands at 54.9 inches. This would break the previous all-time seasonal snowfall record for Washington DC of 54.4 inches set in the winter of 1898- 99
North Platte NE - Oct. 2009	41.13N	100.76W	the snowiest month ever
Chicago, IL - 14 Oct. 2009	41.83N	87.62W	October Cold Snap Sets 82-Year Record
Cheyenne - Oct. 2009 WY	45.79N	104.78W	set a new record for the most snowfall ever
Billings MT - 2 Nov. 2009	45.79N	108.5W	It was more typical of things we might see in December or January
Billings MT - Oct. 2009	45.79N	108.5W	None
El Paso, Texas- Oct. 2009	31.76N	106.48W	None

The 8 October air-burst over Indonesia (about 5 degrees south of the equator) seems to have rapidly affected New Zealand in terms of low temperature records. As it was warmer in the Southern Hemisphere this time of year, rain occurred, especially in places near Indonesia. South Australia was greeted with one of the wettest Novembers on record. See Appendix C. The air-burst seems to have introduced precipitation quickly via nucleation particles into the atmosphere and the lower latitudes in both hemispheres benefited as moisture was rapidly removed from the atmosphere.

The cooler Northern Hemisphere set record cold and snow records. See Appendices B and C. The winds were quickly dumping their moisture resulting in a severe droughts in drought prone areas like in Yunnan China. This time the drought started in the late October time frame coincident with the air-burst. See Appendix A. Florida's October 2009 started with an all-time hottest record only to have its winter end with 'the coldest winter ever'. Even Hawaii was not immune from low temperature records and the cooling remained into April 2010. Texas experienced record snow falls, some near the Gulf coast and Mexican border.

Latitudes in the USA between 38 and 46 degrees experienced extreme - and embarrassing (for Global Warming enthusiasts) snow falls and record cold. The nucleation particles drained these regions of moisture leaving none for the higher latitudes like Vancouver and Toronto Canada. See Appendix D. California experienced some record rainfalls, but the Sacramento delta was not treated to a massive storm surge.

Figure 3. TEMPERATURES RECORDS IN THE USA FOR 10 OCTOBER TO 18 OCTOBER 2009

Figure 3 shows the USA getting ready for a warm October. Global Warming enthusiasts are set to rejoice with politicians salivating at the prospect of new taxes coming from Cap and Trade issues that would surely be passed at the mid December 2009 meeting in Copenhagen.

Figure 4. Temperatures Records In The USA For 17 October To 24 October 2009

Then disaster strikes. Figure 4 shows the extent of the disaster in the USA as the eastern half descends into climatic chaos. It is almost as if God (AKA the OVERSOUL) strikes the politicians with a climatic thunderbolt. Washington becomes snowbound. Copenhagen, Denmark has a maritime climate and milder winters than its Scandinavian neighbors. It hasn’t had a white Christmas for 14 years - (Blizzard Dumps Snow on Copenhagen as Leaders Battle Warming).

Figure 5. Low Temperatures in The USA for 6 December to 14 December 2009

Figure 5 shows that by early December, the southern states were starting to return to normal, but it was still snowing in Copenhagen. Figure 6 shows snow records still being set throughout the USA. January and February prove equally bad for the politicians. It’s almost as if the planet was trying to send a message to Washington.

Figure 6. Snow Records in The USA for 20 December to 27 December 2009

CALIFORNIA RESPONDS TO THE IMPACT THREAT

Figure 7. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger views a portion of the levee along the Sacramento River. The Pentagon began to worry about an impact threat as early as 2004. California's Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger started emergency planning for such an event in early 2006. Such impacts could cause massive amounts of rains that could overwhelm levies in the Sacramento river delta and it was feared a salt water lakes would form in the Sacramento river basin after a deluge subsides. California is very valuable should a future impact occur and global cooling and drought set in. There are only a few areas that would stay wet after an impact. Sir Fred Hoyle reasoned that if the impact managed to temperatures to the point that 'ice crystals' would form in the high atmosphere, the world would stay suspended in an Ice Age for tens of thousands of years. California and some of the western states are among a few places that would eventually experience increased rainfall. See:

Figure 8. Dune And Wetter Land Areas (W) During The Last Glacial Maximum.

• NOW THE PENTAGON TELLS BUSH: CLIMATE CHANGE WILL DESTROY US - 22 February 2004
  · Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war
  · Britain will be 'Siberian' in less than 20 years
  · Threat to the world is greater than terrorism
  Already, according to Randall and Schwartz, the planet is carrying a higher population than it can sustain. By 2020 'catastrophic' shortages of water and energy supply will become increasingly harder to overcome, plunging the planet into war. They warn that 8,200 years ago climatic conditions brought widespread crop failure, famine, disease and mass migration of populations that could soon be repeated.
• AN ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIO AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR UNITED STATES NATIONAL SECURITY - October 2003
  Imagining the Unthinkable
  PETER SCHWARTZ & DOUG RANDALL / GBN Global Business Network October 2003 In 2007, a particularly severe storm causes the ocean to break through levees in the Netherlands making a few key coastal cities such as The Hague unlivable. Failures of the delta island levees in the Sacramento River region in the Central Valley of California creates an inland sea and disrupts the aqueduct system transporting water from northern to southern California because salt water can no longer be kept out of the area during the dry season.
• GOVERNOR SEEKS FAST LEVEE FIXES - February 25, 2006
  Some call state of emergency political ploy -- move nullifies environmental regulations
• WHILE CALIFORNIA SLEPT, LEGISLATURE PASSES $37.3 BILLION BONDS PACKAGE - 05 May 2006
  Flood Protection -- $4.09 billion
  • $3 billion for levee inspection, repair, flood control improvements, and delta levee protection;
  • $500 million for flood control subventions;
  • $290 million for flood corridors, bypasses, and flood plain mapping; and
  • $300 million for storm flood management.
• GOV. SCHWARZENEGGER HIGHLIGHTS COMPLETED LEVEE REPAIRS, PRESSES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR REIMBURSEMENT FOR WORK ON FEDERAL LEVEES - 10/20/2006
  Gov. Schwarzenegger highlighted the completion of the repairs on the critical levee erosion sites before the next flood season.
  "This site and all 29 critical erosion sites we identified in February will be repaired by November 1, just like we planned and the four other critical sites we identified in August are on track to be repaired by November 30," said Gov. Schwarzenegger. "These repairs protect lives and homes which is why we negotiated with the federal government to cut through the red tape and get the necessary permits to start strengthening our levees as soon as possible. Our actions shaved years off the repair times. That's why we can have these finished now before the rains start."
  The Department of Water Resources pledged to finish the levee repair work on the original 29 critical erosion sites by November and much of the levee repair work was completed ahead of schedule. The repairs on 12 of the 29 critical levee sites identified in the Governor's February emergency declaration are complete, and the remaining 17 sites will be finished by November 1. An additional four sites discovered subsequent to those identified originally identified will also be completed by the end of November.
  In February, the Governor declared a state of emergency for California's levee system. Since then, state and federal agencies have cooperated in an unprecedented manner to expedite the permits and begin work on these critical repairs.
  As part of the bipartisan Strategic Growth plan, the November ballot includes a $4.1 billion bond for levee repair and flood control.
• Read much more here

CONCLUSIONS

To be sure, 2009 was not the only year snow records were broken. On January 11, 2008, snow falls on Baghdad for first time in memory. This was part of the Jan08 northern hemisphere snow cover: largest anomaly since 1966. But this bears no correlation to a known meteor impact or air-burst event. December 2009 was the Second Snowiest On Record In The Northern Hemisphere and October, 2009 was the snowiest October on record in the US, and sixth snowiest in the Northern Hemisphere. The winter of 2009/2010 was the upside-down winter.

The 8 October 2009 air-burst event could have partially stimulated the launch of the WISE infrared satellite in December 2009 and whose mission expires in October of 2010. It was designed to detect incoming dark asteroids and comets.

DARK, DANGEROUS ASTEROIDS FOUND LURKING NEAR EARTH - 05 March 2010
An infrared space telescope has spotted several very dark asteroids that have been lurking unseen near Earth's orbit. Their obscurity and tilted orbits have kept them hidden from surveys designed to detect things that might hit our planet.
"It's really good at finding the darkest asteroids and comets," said mission team member Amy Mainzer of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas, on Thursday.
Richard Binzel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says the dark asteroids may be former comets that have long since had all the ice vaporized from their exteriors, leaving them with inactive surfaces that no longer shed dust to produce tails. He points out that many comets have very tilted orbits, and comets visited by spacecraft have been observed to have very dark surfaces.

Figure 9. A Staggering Supply Of FEMA Burial Vaults

WEB BOT PREDICTIONS 1 Apr. 2010

• Six very large earthquakes are yet to come during the rest of 2010.
• A major tipping point will occur between November 8th – 11th, 2010, followed by a 2-3 month release period. This tipping point appears to be US-centric, and could be a dramatic world-changing event like 9-11 that will have rippling after-effects.

Six GREAT QUAKES TO COME - 1-16- 2010
". . . the diaspora/people moving about due to changing circumstances really is 220-million . . . there are at least six great quakes due during calendar 2010 and possibly many more. After six, we stopped looking - not a pretty sight. . . . From the period (approximately) July 7th onward, the data features six clusters of data that will be larger than the global horror that followed the 2004 tsunami. And - sad to report - the data suggests that 220-million will be moving around just on the [american continent] . . .What is clear is that our 'context shift' is 'terra entity', we can't offer any further insight except to say that the data also suggests that by the end of this year, we may see more than a billion people involved in diaspora . . . "

The 8 October 2009 Indonesian air-burst appears to be related to a Vulcan induce comet like object due to the time coincidence in Earth's orbit with the 5 October Camelopardalids comet debris shower. The 5 October debris is know to have an orbit around the Sun that is about 4,000 years long comparable to Vulcan induced comets with average orbital periods 3313 years long. These bodies cross Earth orbit at times predicted by crop circle T367 and this crop circle has been clearly associated with Vulcan because the Sun in crop circle T367 is offset by about 0.35 AU from the centroid and the offset is in the general direction of Vulcan.

The association with the 5 to 7 October impacts with Vulcan and the nominal 4000 year comet period means that the threat times can be extrapolated from a similar impact (and weather changing event) that happened 7946 BC. A similar event is anticipated between now and 2015 AD. The October 8 2009 air-burst over Indonesia could have been it. But the launch of the WISE satellite suggests that 'others' think the worst is yet to come.

APPENDIX A
THE SOUTHWEST CHINA DROUGHT

Figure 10. Until last summer, more Damoguzhen was home to a lake that stretched across a mile-wide expanse of water in Yunnan, a southern Chinese province famed for its mighty rivers and moist climate. Now a once-in-a-century drought is evaporating drinking supplies and devastating crops

• DROUGHT GRIPS PARTS OF CHINA, SOUTHEAST ASIA AMID DAM CONCERNS - April 7, 2010
  In southwest China, the drought has lasted for six months and is still spreading, resulting in an economic loss of more than $2.5 million in Yunnan province and leaving 19.4 million people facing a shortage of drinking water, according to a presentation made last week by Chen Mingzhong, deputy director general of China's Ministry of Water Resources, to a Mekong River Commission summit.
• WESTERN CHINA GRAPPLING WITH LINGERING DROUGHT - 2010- 03-04
  Wells, reservoirs and ponds have dried up in the drought that has plagued southwestern China for nearly six months.
• SEVERE DROUGHT GRIPS SOUTHWESTERN CHINA - March. 17, 2010
  Southwestern China's drought is so severe the government in some areas is rationing just enough water to keep people alive, officials said Wednesday.
  The drought, the worst in memory, has left more than 20 million people short of drinking water in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces.
  The region has seen no rain in six months and some communities since January have been rationing just enough water to keep people alive, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
• CHINA DROUGHT LEAVES 24 MILLION SHORT OF DRINKING WATER - Mar 30, 2010
  
• MEKONG NATIONS CALL FOR CHINA ASSISTANCE AMID DROUGHT
• SPRING HARVEST OF DEBT FOR PARCHED FARMS IN SOUTHERN CHINA - April 4, 2010
  Across parts of the region, the government is rationing drinking water to millions, digging 1,600 emergency wells and shooting silver iodide into the air in a marginally successful rainmaking effort.
• CHINA CAN'T SHAKE ITS SEVERE DROUGHT AND THE PROBLEM HAS GONE REGIONAL - Apr. 7, 2010
  China has been struggling to deal with severe drought in its southwest, which has now gone on for six months. Despite efforts to create artificial rain and divert water resources, the situation remains challenging.
  Worse yet, it's not just China that is feeling the effects. Southeast Asia is increasingly suffering, with over 10% of Thailand's population in Thai drought- afflicted areas.

APPENDIX B
GLOBAL COOLING

Figure 11. Global Warming Protesters. Comet/meteor impacts, even if they are only air-bursts, inject dust into the atmosphere and that dust blocks sunlight. Apparently, that dust was adequate to make a noticeable affect on the winter of 2009-2010 weather.

• FROZEN IN FRANCE? THANK THE ARCTIC OSCILLATION - January 16, 2010
  This winter, many Brits have been shivering through their coldest cold snap in 30 years. Beijing's residents witnessed their city's biggest one-day snowfall in nearly 60 years
  In December, the Arctic Oscillation went into extreme negative mode — more negative than it's been since at least 1950. Serreze says that has affected weather all over the Northern Hemisphere.
  "At the very same time that we've seen these areas in the middle latitudes with sub-zero temperatures and big snow storms, the Arctic has been much, much warmer than normal." Ten to fifteen degrees warmer in some places.
  According to Serreze, the shift in the Arctic Oscillation has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with the vagaries of weather. At the same time, he says, the chances of going so negative are exceedingly small.
• 2009-2010 WINTER SAW RECORD COLD SPELLS -
  Map of temperature anomalies for December 2009 at roughly 1000 metres altitude for the region north of 30°N (NSIDC). Areas in orange and red correspond to strong warm anomalies. Areas in blue and purple correspond to cool anomalies.
  Eurasia and North America are experiencing unusually cold conditions. On the other hand, Greenland, eastern Siberia and the Arctic ocean are experiencing unusual warmth. The warmest regions (more than 7° Celsius above average) are over the Atlantic side of the Arctic, including Baffin Bay and Davis Strait. Unsurprisingly, sea ice extent was below average in this region.
  These strong contrasts in temperature are the result of a strongly negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation. This is caused by opposing patterns of atmospheric pressure between the polar regions and mid-latitudes. During a negative phase, pressures are higher than normal over the Arctic and lower than normal in mid-latitudes. In December 2009, the Arctic Oscillation index was - 3.41, the most negative value since at least 1950. Note the blue dot in the bottom right corner representing December 2009.
• THE “COLD WAR” HITS HOME – OCTOBER IN LIKE A LION, OUT LIKE A FRIDGE - 25 October 2009
  October 22nd. A weather station in Berchtesgaden National Park in Bavaria has recorded the coldest temperature ever in Germany during the month of October. The thermometer dipped to -24.3C or -11.7F.
  Chicago: October Cold Snap Sets 82-Year Record
  New Hampshire: Mt. Washington hasn’t been above freezing in nine days. They had over a foot of snowfall in the first two weeks of October and temperatures for the month are more than 7 degrees cooler than average. They had over a foot of snowfall in the first two weeks of October and temperatures for the month are more than 7 degrees cooler than average.
  Monday, Oct. 19, 2009 Temperatures' are rebounding after what was record-breaking cold morning in Charlotte. This morning’s unofficial low at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport was 30 degrees. That is the coldest since March 5, when the low was 29. This morning’s reading broke the old record for the date, 31 degrees, set in 1948.
• IT’S OFFICIAL: COLDEST WINTER EVER - March 20, 2010
  After computing all the average temperatures from every day this winter, the National Weather Service said the average has been a little less than 56 degrees in Orlando.
  That’s over a degree colder than the city’s previously coldest winter on record, set in 1954.
• HAWAII: COLD RECORDS FALL ON 3 ISLANDS - 04 Apr 2010
  This morning's low temperature broke three records for this date.
  It was 59 degrees at Honolulu Airport at 6 a.m. breaking the 19-year record of 61 degrees. Yesterday's low at the airport also set a record.
  Kahului Airport on Maui was downright chilly this morning where a 54-degree reading was recorded. The previous record was 57 degrees.
  This morning's record low also was the lowest temperature ever recorded in April at Kahului.
  Hilo Airport on the Big Island was 61 degrees, breaking by 1 degrees the low reading recorded in 1959, 1965, 1973 and 1981.
• ICELAND ERUPTION STABLE, OLD ASH DISRUPTING FLIGHTS: EXPERT - May 11, 2010 More Dust Put In The Atmsphere
  The volcano began erupting on April 14, releasing ash that last month caused the biggest aerial shutdown in Europe since World War II, affecting more than 100,000 flights and eight million passengers over a week.
• SNOW IN MAY? IN SOUTHERN FRANCE? - 5th May 2010
• BRITAIN SET TO SHIVER ALL WEEK - 09 May 2010
  Parts of the UK have already seen frost this weekend and temperatures plummeted to a freezing -3.6C in Shap, Cumbria, yesterday night.
  Temperatures will now remain far below the 18C average for this time of year.

APPENDIX C
FRIGID PRECIPITATION AT LOW AND MID LATITUDES

Figure 12. The Washington Storm Is A December Record! And Obama Arrives At Andrews Air Force Base

• COLDEST OCTOBER IN MANY YEARS AND RECORD SNOW Part 2
  Coldest October in many years and record snow
  October 2009 3rd Coldest for US in 115 Years
  An update: Here’s more of the same from New Zealand, Montana ,Wyoming, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas.
• IT'S OFFICIAL: OCTOBER WAS FRIGID - 4 Nov 2009
  Chilly weather kept temperatures down to record low levels across Otago last month, with Dunedin experiencing its coldest October since records began about 60 years ago. Nationally, it was the coldest October in 64 years, with an average temperature of 10.6degC (1.4degC) below the long-term average) and record low temperatures recorded in many areas, including Otago, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) climate summary says.
• RARE EARLY OCTOBER SNOW GREETS MINNESOTA - October 12, 2009
• BIGGEST OCTOBER SNOW IN DENVER IN 12 YEARS - Oct 29, 2009
• Heat, rainfall records for November in SA - Dec 1, 2009
  South Australia has recorded its hottest November on record, with some regions setting rainfall records as well.
• ANTI-CLIMACTIC IRONY – COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CONFERENCE FINALE HIT WITH SNOW AND COLD - Dec. 17 2009
  Denmark has a maritime climate and milder winters than its Scandinavian neighbors. It hasn’t had a white Christmas for 14 years, under the DMI’s definition, and only had seven last century. Temperatures today fell as low as minus 4 Celsius (25 Fahrenheit).
• RECORD SNOW CONTINUES TO FALL AS DEADLY EAST COAST STORM LINGERS - December 19, 2009
  Record snowfall totals were reported Saturday afternoon at Washington Dulles and Reagan National airports -- and snow was still falling. Accumulation at Dulles reached 16 inches, breaking the old record of 10.6 inches set December, 12, 1964; 13.3 inches was reported at Reagan. The old record there was 11.5 inches set December 17, 1932.
• RECORD SNOW COVER NATIONWIDE DESPITE RECENT LULL IN SNOWFALL HERE (in Chicago) - January 31 2010
• WORLD HIT WITH RECORD SNOW AND ARCTIC TEMPERATURE AS COPENHAGEN GLOBAL WARMING HOAX ENDS - Dec 23, 2009
  “Over 50% of the USA is now covered in snow” As the Mid-Atlantic states were completely white on Sunday, December 20, 2009, in the wake of a record-breaking snow storm. The storm deposited between 12 and 30 inches of snow in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. on December 19, according to the National Weather Service. For many locations, the snowfall totals broke records for the most snow to fall in a single December day.“Severe weather kills dozens in Europe” Fifteen homeless people killed in Warsaw alone as temperatures dip to as low as -33C in Europe and snow leads to travel chaos. ALL TIME SEASONAL SNOWFALL RECORDS BROKEN IN BALTIMORE, PHILADELPHIA, AND WASHINGTON - 10/02/2010
• WASHINGTON IS KNOCKED OUT COLD BY RECORD SNOW - February 10, 2010
  The Mid-Atlantic region sees its second huge storm in less than a week.
• RECORD SNOW HITS DALLAS - February 12, 2010
  The all-time 24-hour snowfall record for Dallas-Fort Worth was broken as of 4 A.M today, with 12.5 inches of snow. The National Weather Service says the previous record was 12.1 inches set in 1962.
  The snow began to taper off today as a winter storm warning remained in effect for parts of north Texas. Snowfall reports ranged from 6-14 inches.
• SOUTHERN U.S. STATES SEE RECORD SNOW FALLS – 02/12/2010
  And as much as 3 inches could hit Savannah, Ga., where snow was last traced in February 1996 — “and that was only 0.2 inches,” Lamb said. It’s been two decades since Georgia’s oldest city had any notable accumulation, with 3.6 inches falling in December 1989. Normally, temperatures in February don’t dip below 41 degrees.
  “There’s no doubt this is a significant event for us,” Lamb said.

APPENDIX D
NO PRECIPITATION WHERE NORMALLY ANTICIPATED

Figure 13. The 2010 Winter Olympics In Vancouver, British Columbia To Helicopter In Snow To Cover Mountains. The global cooling at low and mid latitudes seems to have deprived the higher latitudes of precipitation. Notably, Toronto and Vancouver have experienced significant declines in the anticipated snow levels. The California cities of Monterey and Sacramento experienced some record rainfalls, but that's' about it.

• TORONTO SETS NOVEMBER SNOW RECORD - December 1, 2009
  Toronto finished November 2009 without as much as a trace of snow. That's the first time in 70 years of official records that there has not been any snow in November. Unofficial records indicate that this may have broken a 162-year record.
• AFTER WARMEST JANUARY IN HISTORY, VANCOUVER AIRLIFTS IN SNOW FOR WINTER OLYMPICS. - 02/12/2010
  Record warmth is forcing the organizers of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia to helicopter in snow to cover mountains. The planet’s changing climate is threatening the start of the Olympics, as “sloppy, foggy weather” has canceled training runs on both Whistler and Cypress Mountains. In Vancouver, the “average temperature in January was 44.9 degrees, besting the previous warm record of 43.3 in 2006 and well above the historic average of 37.9 degrees”:
  After the warmest January in Vancouver history, organizers moved more than 5,000 cubic meters of snow onto Cypress by helicopter and truck from nearby mountains. Some 750 workers are bringing in snow and building courses before competition starts on Saturday
• STORM PACKS POWERFUL PUNCH: - Wed, 14 Oct 2009 Record rainfall in Monterey for a single day in October
• STORM LEAVING SACRAMENTO REGION AFTER NEAR-RECORD RAINFALL - April 12th, 2010 The rainfall total for this month in Sacramento stands at 1.48 inches. That surpasses the normal for April, which is 1.17.