While Midwest reports still severe storms with hails and tornadoes , in northern USA and southeastern Canada are happening very strange things.
In Toronto, only 2 days after temperatures above +32°C / 90°F, historic snowfall has arrived on Friday, 28. May 2021.
It is the second latest snow in Canadian metropolitan city in history. Record is 4. June (1945) in modern age and June 1816 in historic records.
Extremely cold weather with daily temperature records and late season frosts hit eastern parts of Northern Plains and western Great Lakes region – in Hibbing. Minnesota, -6,1°C / 21°F and in International Falls, -4,4°C / 24°F was measured.
Extreme weather like this should be very harmful for sensitive plants and harvest – it´s late May, almost summer and snowing and severe frosts still occupying mid-latitudinal areas.
Meanwhile across East Coast, extreme heatwave is continue.
Only in series of previous articles we have noticed snow-related records in May 2021 in Europe /mountains: https://mkweather.com/pastures-in-the-alps-under-the-snow-cows-cant-feed-and-summer-is-knocking-on-the-door/; https://mkweather.com/kraderica-slovenia-all-time-snow-record-for-summer-season-broken-510-cm-of-snow/; https://mkweather.com/czechia-1300-masl-record-1-meter-of-snow-in-may-it-has-never-appeared-so-late-2021/; https://mkweather.com/snowing-in-portugal-only-at-1000-masl-the-coldest-times-since-march-2021/; lowlands: https://mkweather.com/snowing-in-potsdam-berlin-germany-in-may-after-50-years/; https://mkweather.com/snowing-in-the-netherlands-on-7-may-extremely-rare-snowstorm/; https://mkweather.com/scotland-and-northern-england-under-the-snow-in-may-exceptionally-cold-spring-2021-continues//.
Late snowfall has occurred in Canadian Prairies and NW USA in last period, too /https://mkweather.com/from-summer-into-winter-after-334c-saskatchewan-snowing-in-edmonton-alberta-canada/; https://mkweather.com/a-few-days-before-summer-2021-a-giant-snowstorm-in-nw-usa//.
Cold shocks in Northern Hemisphere /https://mkweather.com/a-big-european-circulation-anomaly-in-2021-totally-oppositely-such-as-in-the-world-and-showing-what-climate-change-should-bring-until-2100// are arriving after long-term and ongoing La nina event /https://mkweather.com/the-next-cold-winter-strong-la-nina-in-winter-2021-2022-forecasted//, series of strong volcanic eruptions VEI3-VEI4 and minimum activity of solar cycle /https://mkweather.com/solar-cycle-behind-nao-coldwaves-in-europe-and-la-nina-coldwaves-around-the-world-2021/; https://mkweather.com/2021-22-little-ice-age-years-with-volcanic-activity-in-last-30-years-had-tendency-to-be-la-nina-during-solar-cycle-minimum//.
