Moscow, Russia had it warmest December 3rd. No snow there, that is very exceptional!

“MOSCOW, December 3 (RIA Novosti) – The temperature in Moscow climbed to 6.6 degrees Celsius (44 degrees Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, breaking a 47-year-old record, the Russian meteorological website http://www.hmn.ru reported.

At 15:00 Moscow time (noon GMT), the air temperature climbed to 6.6 degrees Celsius in northern Moscow, breaking the 1961 record and setting a new one for December 3,” the report says.

On December 3, 1961, the temperature in the capital reached 6.2 degrees Celsius (43.2 degrees Fahrenheit). The average high and low temperatures in December in Moscow are -4 and -8 degrees Celsius (24.8 and 17.6 degrees Fahrenheit), respectively.

The day was also the warmest for the surrounding region, where the temperature reached 6.1 degrees Celsius (43 degrees Fahrenheit), surpassing a 0.5 degrees Celsius reading set in 1979.

The Russian capital has seen a spell of unusually warm weather in recent months. On November 12, the temperature in Moscow reached 8.9 degrees Celsius (48 degrees Fahrenheit), setting a new record.

This October was the warmest on record in Moscow, with an average temperature of over 9 degrees Celsius (48.2 degree Fahrenheit). “

Please include generous helpings of Humble Pie, and Crow.

http://www.convertcenter.com/convertunit.aspx/Temperature/Celsius/Fahrenheit/1/2/1

A climate museum – that would definitely be worth a visit. With walk-through dioramas showing conditions as they might have been during the MWP (with a complimentary glass of English wine) and then the LIA (remember to wrap up warm!) One gallery could exhibit a collection of climate models, some still spinning merrily away, others broken (falsified.) Another gallery could house the museum’s extensive hockey stick collection – some smashed and in pieces, newer ones held together with sticky tape. Check out the award-winning restaurant too – try the succulent “Pachauri special” beefburger and for dessert enjoy a slice of pie “a la Lynas”, with the carbonated beverage of your choice.

There will be claim of the ’10th warmest November in the south east since records began’, come the first week in December.

Newman (Seinfeld): When you control the mail, you control…. information!

Temperatures of -6c in England in November are far from unusual – for example the temp dropped to -7c at Benson on the 21st Nov 2005 and after the famously cold summer of 2003 it fell to -9c at Carlisle during November. Benson is a well known frost hollow, often the coldest place in Southern England and frequently much colder than surrounding areas. My own mininum – I live about 30 miles away – was -1.9c

But nice to see some more normal Nov weather for a change after the last 2 years which have given us such usually warm months.

RE: “Downright Dick(i)nsonian”

I’m pretty sure Steve alludes to Emily Dickinson. Those New England winters were a b*tch!

Isn’t the Dickinsonian Museum the place that preserves and displays all the bad weather? They wanted to build it in New England, but New England wasn’t big enough to hold all the weather worth displaying.

I’m sure Steve means Charles Dickens, as in Oliver Twist or A Christmas Carol.

One night in Ashland NH my parents and I were at a restaurant and Dad ordered drinks for us, including the usual martinis for Mom and Dad. I think Mom usually had the martini with the lemon, and Dad liked his very dry with an olive. When the waitress came back with the drinks, she asked “Twist or olive?” I managed to wait until she left before commenting she should have asked “Oliver Twist?”

Southern Ocean more resilient than first thought

While this information is highly arousing to other genders, they inevitably spot my pocket protector and all is lost.

http://cadenzapress.co.uk/download/mencken.xls

It can be just as warm at 280ppm as at 380ppm.

Take those figures further back to the MWP and Roman warm period and it can be WARMER at 280ppm than at 380ppm.

An inconvenient truth and why DR Mann said ‘the medieval warm period was an outdated concept’ when constructing his hockey sticks.

TonyB

Nevertheless, WRT snow poetry, New England has a pile of it.

Don’t know if it was just 19th century.