And by Saturday morning, some lawns and rooftops may even sport swatches of frost!

Not to be outdone, though, the higher elevations of Vermont, New Hampshire and eastern New York may see wet snow mix in enough so that some sloppy accumulations are possible!

But at least the atmosphere will behave with plenty of sunshine locally… even if it doesn’t FEEL like Memorial Day, it will LOOK like Memorial Day, LOL.

The National Weather Service measured 2/10ths of an inch just after 9 p.m. Friday and 1/10th Saturday morning – breaking the old record of 230 days set in 1981-1982.

Anchorage police responded to 22 crashes, 4 with injuries and 37 vehicles in distress between midnight and noon Saturday. Police say roads were wet and not icy midday and “motorists should use caution if the temperatures drop below freezing.

Other parts of the city had much higher amounts of snow, however official measurements must be consistent and observed at the Sand Lake forecast office. The recent snowfall also broke the daily record for liquid precipitation, lowest maximum temperature for May 17, and a host of other records.

Courtesy, Neil Torquiano, KTUU-TV

At least it did a reasonable job of clearing the snow off the lawn.

Both the professionals weather observers, whose jobs are at risk, and aviation groups have expressed concern that air traffic controllers may not be up to the task of keeping pilots apprised of rapidly changing weather conditions.

CLICK HERE for the entire story.

You can’t make this stuff up. The climate change “authority” has published several articles on how global warming is resulting in an increase in Southern Hemisphere ice, while the northern ice cap is supposedly set to disappear by 2050 — even as global sea ice is back above normal. I do not believe it’s a coincidence that the articles are being released as the Northern Hemisphere fights its way out of what seems to be a never ending winter in some places. Here in the States, the plains are having the opposite weather of last spring, with record cold and snow so late in the season. Last spring was touted as an example of global warming with the record warm March here in the US, even though the globe was .106C below normal!

To see Joe Bastardi’s complete article on the Patriot Post, CLICK HERE.

The article is one of those jewels that you want to file in the SAVE folder for your students who are in need of GOOD science to refute the junk science that is allowed to propagate in far too many public classrooms.

Hubble captured the new photos on April 10, when Comet ISON was slightly closer than Jupiter. At the time the icy wanderer was about 386 million miles (621 million kilometers) from the sun and 394 million miles (634 million km) from Earth.

The new images are already helping astronomers take a bead on the mysterious Comet ISON, which may shine as brightly as the full moon when it makes its closest pass by the sun in late November. (The comet poses no threat to Earth, NASA has said.) [Photos of Comet ISON in Night Sky]

CLICK HERE for the full story from NASA.

But do you remember what happened in April?

Our weather memories are very selective (including a meteorologists!). I thought I remembered a warmer than normal April, too. Wasn’t it?

The chart below shows otherwise. In fact, we were a little cooler than normal for most of the month after our several week, record-setting warmth in March.

If that can happen for just the previous year, imagine how skewed our selective weather memories are from our childhood. Most remember the huge snowstorms and constantly cold winters “that we used to get.” Thank goodness for archived weather data. Those huge childhood snowstorms stick in our memories because they were memorable. The archived data shows that, like in recent winters, we had plenty of quiet, forgettable periods during our childhood years too. And guess what? We forget them quickly because they were unmemorable.

The data also shows that we had plenty of memorable winters even since I have been at WJW-TV (since 1988). SIX of the top ten snowiest winters ON RECORD have occurred since I have been on staff at channel 8!

Yes, how quickly we forget… and that is exactly what proponents of anthropic (human-induced) runaway global warming are counting on.

Thank goodness for archived weather data.

“In the Woody Allen comedy classic, “Bananas,” there is a scene where the CIA is sending US troops to fight on both sides of a revolution because they’re afraid of being on the wrong side.

While many of us laughed at such things then because of the absurdity of it, we find that the same kind of strategy is being used by AGW propagandists that seek to claim every idea they have as the correct one.”

CLICK HERE to read the entire article.