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Feb282011
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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Snow in Lahore
Feb 28, 2011 Snow has fallen in Lahore, apparently for the first time ever.
LAHORE: The city on Saturday received heavy rain and hailstorm measuring 4.5 millimetres, which carpeted several roads and sidewalks with snow sending a wave of cheerfulness among citizens.
The hailstorm, witnessed at isolated places in the city in the evening, was enjoyed by citizens especially children, who were seen forcing their parents to stop by footpaths to play with snow at Zafar Ali Road, Gulberg Main Boulevard and Davis Road.
There seems to be some doubt over whether it was snow or hail, but there are pictures of snowmen on the page linked. Comments under this video suggest that it was graupel, which seems to be something of a cross between the two.
Reader Comments (25)
We're doomed then.
Opportunity for Josh
The full report contains this LOL line:
Snow or hail. What was the consensus?
steveta_uk
See - told you.
Just wait until Trenberth gets hold of this.
Come on guys. This is just a new type of rain brought about by human emissions of CO2. It is exactly what has been predicted by computer models.
Looks like sleet, It must be cold there! I wonder how this ties into the cagw theory? or the lack of?
Phillip, you took the words right out of my mouth and the graupel right out of my model. That'll be an extra £20 million for my slush fund - meaning of course it's graupel in, graupel out.
Actually, it is all due to the glaciers in the Himalayas melting. The snow that normally fell there went to Lahore instead.
Sparks
We'll ignore CAGW, but I suppose the AGW argument would be along the lines of warmer boundary layer, elevated SSTs, increased evaporation, accelerated hydrological cycle, increased vertical transport of warm, moist air, high altitude precipitation... hail (graupel) in odd places.
"We'll ignore CAGW, but I suppose the AGW argument would be along the lines of warmer boundary layer, elevated SSTs, increased evaporation, accelerated hydrological cycle, increased vertical transport of warm, moist air, high altitude precipitation... hail (graupel) in odd places."
All very true BBD except we're left with the mystery of how the glaciers over 8000ft in the Himalayas are receding. The are losing ice through ablation, but if there was precipitation they wouldn't be losing it.
Bleedin' 'ard this global warming stuff.
This was all predicted in the orgiastic AGW-fest movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'...........Tis all perfectly consistent.......To the irrational mind..
Positively Biblical. What is remarkable is being near the end of the world, like, made everyone really cheerful.
Yay, doom!
Just a spot of research I was doing. The clip reminded me of Tallulah Bankhead's famous quote 'I'm as pure as the driven slush'. What I have discovered, apart from her mother's maiden name being 'Sledge', is that she was apparently a victim of dirty tricks in the 1920's establishment, unknown until files were declassified in 2000. What are they going to uncover 80 years from now, one wonders?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallulah_Bankhead
Was it snow or hailstones?
If it was snow then there is a problem to my mind.
If it was hailstones then those amongst you know that these can occur at virtually any time of the year.
I well remember one day in the height of summer in Wellington New Zealand the following event.
The sky darkened suddenly, there was a massive hailstone shower and people were rushing for cover. I was at the junction of Manners Street and Willis Street beside the Manners St Mall at the time along with hundreds others. This Mall is not large so we crammed in to every nook and cranny avoiding the hail.
It lasted only a few minutes and when it did finish the hailstones were piled up against walls and on footpaths. They were large, but not enormous, perhaps the size of the old style glass marbles of the 1950s, less than half an inch in diameter.
Back then, about 25 years ago, we didn't blame it on AGW.
It was just weather.
It's pretty obvious it was hail.
Within the first five seconds of the video you can see that leaves have been knocked off the trees at the side of the road. Snow does not do that.
PS It's not graupel either. As Wiki says 'not to be confused with hail ore ice pellets'. Graupel does not strip leaves either.
I don't know if anyone's thought of this yet, but wouldn't it be funny if we all pretended it's not climate change, just for a laugh.
Or we could just pretend all weather is climate change.
Oh wait...
What a hilarious video! The guy shooting it was dying with excitement. I'll definitely take his word that that's an extremely unusual weather event in Lahore.
hey!! i`m from lahore and your right it hell of a day...... witnessed 1st time...... an amazing day
ERAJ
Did you actually get a chance to examine the stuff? Was it hail (hard, dense bits of ice) or graupel (light, fluffy frozen material)? If you drop back in and can give a definitive answer it would be very useful.
Thanks
Gesh for the win!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BBD - It was hail. Wasn't all that hard like hail usually is.