Incredible storm for so late in the season. The trees already have their leaves on them! Accumulating late-May snow is pummeling the higher elevations of the Western United States — the latest inconvenient real-world observation pouring cold water on the hot mess that is AGW. A storm brought heavy snow to much of central and western Montana on May 20, causing a host of power outages across the state, tweeted the National Weather Service (NWS): The NWS issued winter weather warnings and advisories for most of central Montana, advising that some areas could be on for over a foot and a half of global warming goodness by Saturday. The snow has already been substantial. Below was the scene at Augusta, MT on May 20: And here was picture early Friday morning in Dupuyer, MT, which was already reporting 16 inches: There is no fathoming the stupidity of those that blame such an event on global warming. There is no mechanism in which a warming world leads to late-May snow and record low temperatures. The actual mechanism –which I will keep repeating until it’s widely accepted by the mainstream– is that low solar activity is weakening the jet streams, reverting their usual tight ZONAL flow to a wavy MERIDIONAL one. Click on the below link for more on that: