Did it really snow in Johannasburg, South Africa during the Live Earth Concert?
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3DM is right on again. I think Jenny may need a geography lesson. Yes, South Africa is in the southern hempisphere, and it is winter there now, but Johannesburg is nowhere near the antarctic region. It is around 30 degrees south latitude. This would make Johannesburg about as close to the antarctic region as Jacksonville, Florida, Cairo, Eqypt and Kuwait city are close to the arctic region (all of which are near 30 degrees north latitude.) But, there isn't much snow in those northern hemisphere cities in the winter.
If you look at weather.com, you'll see that the average low temperature in June and July in Johannesburg is 42*F, and the average precipitation is 0.2 - 0.3 inches. These conditions make snow very rare in Johannesburg.
I heard this, but consider South Africa is in the southern hemisphere nearer to the anarctic region, unexpected maybe but not unheard of same gos for the southernmost tip of south america in the patagonia region its quite cold there.
It's winter in SA - and it does snow on occasion.
Do you expect that global warming will stop all snow? It's the center of Winter down there.
Global warming doesn't mean it will never snow again, just reduce it enough to put many ski resorts out of business. So they're a big force in the fight against global warming:
"We are writing to express our support for the US-CAP approach to fighting global warming. Fifty-nine (59) ski areas across 21 states support the US-CAP principles to act aggressively and sustainably slow, stop and reverse the growth of global warming emissions. These fifty-nine (59) endorsing resorts, listed below, are committed to raising awareness of the problem of global warming and helping apply solutions to solve it."
http://www.nsaa.org/nsaa/environment/cli...
and:
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2003/...
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/16/world/...
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/...
Yes, it did snow in South Africa. Keep in mind they are in the S. Hemisphere so it is winter there. According to AA's website the average annual snow fall in Johannesburg is 18 inches.
No, I don't think so. There was a big snowfall less than two weeks before, and despite what the AA site says, they don't get 18 inches of snow annually. They may have received that much in the last 50 years, but likely it'd be closer to a century. It almost never snows in Jo'burg. The big deal is that this is the second year with snow. The last big snow was back in 1981 (and when we say "big" we're talking any snow deep enough to stick around for more than a few hours.
This year's snow ~4 inches:
http://www.johannesburg.gov.za/2007/jun/...
2006 snow ~3/8 inch:
http://www.johannesburg.gov.za/2006/aug/...
I think what you may have heard was the promoter BLAMING the low turnout on the snow two weeks prior. Yeah...right.
http://www.nme.com/news/live-earth/29539...
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