Posted on 06/11/2011 2:50:20 PM PDT by george76
The summit of Snowdon under a white blanket of snow: it's a picture postcard cliche.
But if you thought this photograph was taken in the dark days of winter then think again.
The wintry scene, at the Snowdon Mountain Railway's terminus near Hafod Eryri, was photographed at 1300 BST on Friday - in the middle of June, days before the start of Wimbledon and just over a week before the summer solstice.
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Given the vagaries of the Welsh weather and Snowdon's 1085m (3560ft) altitude, experts say such climatic contrasts are to be expected from time to time.
"It's not common but it's not unheard of," said BBC Wales weather presenter Behnaz Akhgar.
"We are going through a little bit of a cold spell at the moment, with temperatures of 12-13C when the average temperature for this time of year is 18-19C.
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Blame global warming.
It was snowing here where I live in California two weeks ago. Still 50 feet of snow in the Sierra.
Where’s Al Gore?
The MSM was trumpeting the recent heat wave as an indicator of global warming.
Well, if day to day weather DOES indicate global warming, doesn’t the snow in June indicate global cooling??????
That Snowdon Park has to be one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever visited... like someplace out of a Fairy tale. Loved those old steam narrow-guage trains too.
“experts say such climatic contrasts are to be expected from time to time.”
Odd, how they seem to believe this to be true for “contrasts” involving cooling. Warming, on the other hand...
We had a volcano last year in Iceland. The worldwide climate is always affected by large volcanic eruptions.
Can’t help but agree with you. When we drove through the mountains/hills of Snowdonia we encountered a rally of AC and AC Cobra enthusiasts. Scores of them pulled over on the berms, charging full throttle up the peaks. It was better than a fairy tale, I’ll tell you.
There was another Icelandic volcano, Grimsvoten I think, this spring as well, and the volcano down in Chile recently too.
A whole lot of cooling going on...
I wonder why they named it “Snowdon”?
/sarc
Wow! The mountain behind our home goes up to 4457’ and Waterrock Knob east of town goes to 6290’, so maybe I need to break out the snowshoes.
We did have 4” snow on May 12 one year at Newfound Gap in the Great Smoky Mountains Park and flurries down in town on May 8th.
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