From the “weather is not climate department. Oh the weather outside is frightful….
Prisoners used to shovel snow-bound US capitol
Here’s the roundup of cold and snow records for the past 7 days. While there is a handful of new high temp records, it is clear where the bulk of the statistics is. Note the new record lows in Florida.
Here’s a few other recent news stories:
Maryland Reports 4 Cold Weather Deaths
Cold weather kills scores in India
Dublin airport suspends flights after heavy snowfall, cold weather
Once in generation cold snap forecast for North Carolina
Record low blows into Siouxland
Recent global cool-down challenges validity of climate change models
National Weather Highlight for 12 / 29 / 09: Record snow falls in Dallas / Fort Worth area
Recent global cool-down challenges validity of climate change models
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A few warm and a few cold records are normal. They always happen.
But here again is a large number of cold records. And more record Snow. This is a third week of record snow and a second week of numerous cold records since before winter began.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/13/lots-of-new-cold-and-snow-records-in-the-usa-this-week/
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http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/27/877-new-snowfall-records-set-or-tied-in-the-usa-in-the-last-week/
I don’t know how I missed this one on deaths in the US from the cold weather from December 11.
Md. Reports 4 Cold Weather Deaths
http://wjz.com/local/hypothermia.residents.maryland.2.1364554.html
REPLY: Thanks – I’ve added it to the story -A
“Note the new record lows in Florida.”
Interesting, generally in 2009 Florida was shown as warmer than average.
One from the UK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1239908/Britains-big-freeze-hit-return-work-forecasters-issue-new-ice-alert-drivers.html
“It will stay bitingly cold for the next ten days at the very least.
Met Office forecaster Dave Elliott said: ‘This cold spell is here for the foreseeable future. It will certainly stay with us right through this coming week and even then we can’t see an end to it.’”
So much for the Met Office forecast of another mild winter.
If many more people freeze to death from all this global warming we’re having, somebody is going to start to notice.
“Figures obtained by the Tories show that the North West’s “winter kill” rose from 3,210 in 2007-08 to 5,000 last year.”
Liverpool pensioners face cold weather death risk, claim Tories
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2010/01/02/liverpool-pensioners-face-cold-weather-death-risk-claim-tories-100252-25507589/
And don’t ffffuuurrget the fffrrezzzing weather in N Europe too. We have had another cold snap, that is likely to last for another week or so.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2009/pr20091231.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/10209 (click on temperature)
For the UK, this is quite unprecedented. We normally get a cold snap or two in Jan or Feb, just for a few days with lots of warm weather in between. To have very cold followed by cold and then very cold for more than three weeks in Dec/Jan is quite unprecedented.
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FWIW, I speculate that the land can cool off faster than the oceans (since a shallow depth of soil cools, then acts as an insulator, whereas water moves) thus we get the new cold regimin showing up over land first. THEN I’d expect the “lava lamp” effect to have the warm air preferentially heading to the poles over the oceans and the cold air preferentially heading away from the poles over the (now colder) land.
Thus we get the ‘loopy jet stream’ and all the various air oscillators…
THAT then amplifies the land cooling and the whole thing slowly ‘spins up’ to these Arctic Express winds whacking straight down the center of N. America and into the heart of Eurasia.
Welcome to Lava Lamp Land, hope you brought a winter coat and mittens…
I fear we have 20+ years of this to live through. I take delight in the fact that we climate naturalists are being dramatically shown correct and that the global cooling deniers are being shown wrong; and I weep for the thousands who will die while the “powers that be” realize they need to do something about the cold.
When will the US become committed to preventing cold weather deaths from the global cooling going on now?
Michael, no need to rely on Tories’ info, you can get it yourself here http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=574 National winter mortality went up from 25,000 in 07/08 to 36,000 in 08/09. Go to the top of the site’s page (red text) and you’ll be playing around for hours finding out stuff!
Ahhh MET office UK Winter forecast in tatters
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/6921281/Britain-facing-one-of-the-coldest-winters-in-100-years-experts-predict.html
Regards the European cold weather.
This has been caused by a lowering of the jetstreams. They normally track at higher latitudes, dragging tight and therefore windy low pressure systems up over the UK, bringing lots of warm Mexican air with them.
This year, the jetstreams are way down in the Mediterranean.
http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/forecast/europe/europeanjet.html
This is giving us slack pressure systems (both highs and lows), which are disconnected from lower latitudes and have ‘cooled off’. Our supply of warm tropical air has gone, so even the slack low-pressure systems are now fffreezzing.
http://www.eldoradocountyweather.com/forecast/europe/europeanjet.html
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Question.
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The main difference between high sunspot cycles and low sunspot cycles is the lower magnetic flux. A low magnetic flux can obviously interfere with the Earths magnetosphere, with a lack of auroras etc:
But could this magnetic disturbance (or calming) also influence the track of the upper jetstreams in any way? If so, we could discover the link between sunspot activity and climate.
In this case, the total energy flux impacting the Earth (the TSI) does not need to alter much, and neither does the cloud-induced albedo of the Earth. All we need is a disconnect between tropical air masses and northern latitude air masses (as is happening now), so that the northern latitudes get very cold and start accumulating snow and ice. And if sustained, we have the beginnings of a northern latitude Ice Age.
Any ideas?
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We had a dusting of snow last night. It wasn’t forecast so there is no grit on the roads. Chaos will ensue. Another great call by the Met Office.
OT, but there is a full page article about Wikipedia in today’s paper version of the FT. I can’t see it on their web site ft.com. Wikipedia plan to add a ‘rate this article’ button this year. I’m sure Anthony’s army will get to work rating William Connolley’s 5,800+ articles. Oh joy!
“Note the new record lows in Florida.”
It is supposed to be near 30 degrees for a low most of the rest of the week here in Orlando! What a way to start January. This is the sort of winter weather that destroyed the citrus industry here in central Florida back in the 70s.
I lost two foxtail palms last year and the big mature one had burned fronds on it up until just a couple weeks ago from last winter. I am afraid that it will not survive the coming winter.
If you garden in central Florida, you find it very difficult to believe the alarmists predictions.
The Carolinas are calling for a long period of cold. The temperatures won’t break records but the duration of the cold temperatures will be something not seen for over 20 years.
Those with highs, how do their station rate on http://www.surfacestations.org ?
Barry Foster (00:56:19) :
Thanks Barry.
I think we can now make a direct correlation between cold climate deaths and sunspot activity. Anybody have a chart or can make a graph on this?
And yet again:
predicted a month ahead by Dr. Piers Corbyn.
It’s becoming such a JOKE that the “officials” keep humming & turning a blind, ignorant eye. GOVERNMENT money needs to be channeled to this man in LARGE amounts starting NOW.
Greatest read yet:
Sounds to me like the councils haven’t budgeted enough for snow mitigation. If their budget is all used up then they must grope for excuses for not getting the sand trucks out on the road. It being too cold for sand trucks to move while people are trying to drive around doesn’t seem like a plausible excuse.
It Didn’t Start With Climategate
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/01/025294.php
I believe the AGW is a very cleverly disguised campaigne to help us cope with global cooling, I can tell from myself, I am not worried but glad about every cold record I hear about.
JohnH (00:58:53) :
Oh ya, but that’s just climate.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8437395.stm Just wondered if anyone has a recent temp record of San Francisco, and if the sea lions might be leaving because temps are cooler. They’ve been there since 1989. Rather worringly, there is a rumour that they know of an impending earthquake.
Who is the ClimateGate leaker in the media? It’s the Chinese now and not the Russians.
First segment of this video
p.s. OT, but no thread for OT now
ralph (00:46:37) :
For the UK, this is quite unprecedented. We normally get a cold snap or two in Jan or Feb, just for a few days with lots of warm weather in between. To have very cold followed by cold and then very cold for more than three weeks in Dec/Jan is quite unprecedented.
Only if you use the CRU data?
AlanG, you can’t be too far from where I am in south England. None of our roads were gritted either, and we drove home during that dusting last night. Accu forecast isn’t good http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/forecast.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&postalcode=RG14 1AA&metric=1