No it’s not a time warp photo of Dicken’s time, it’s from the NASA MODIS satellite imager this week. This is like one of those “spot the cow in this photo” images, looking for the UK in a sea of white.
It must be having quite an impact in the UK. According to UK resident and WUWT commenter “borderer”:
Every single newspaper in the UK has published the following satellite image of the UK today – it shows the entire country in glowing white – snow and ice now appears the entire British Isles from John O’ Groats at the Northern tip of Scotland – to Landsend in Cornwall.
Despite this – and we are now in our 25th day of sub zero temperatures – the MET Office put up a spokesman on Newsnight last evening claiming that their forecast for a ‘very mild winter’ had ‘only been a probability!!
In other news, the Met Head gets paid extra even for botched forecasting. Remember the “BBQ summer” forecast?
“Mr. Hirst, you predicted a barbeque summer for 2009 – we don’t remember that – and a mild winter for this winter, which hasn’t happened. Why did you get a massive performance related bonus?“
h/t to Kate at SDA
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Would Al Gore and the MET Office be willing to take questions now?
Oliver K. Manuel
Can anyone else see Michael Jackson’s face in that photo, or is it just me?
On one hand I love how wrong the Met office was, on the other hand I feel so bad for the people in England. That must suck.
We’ve got more snow coming Sunday, and guess where is going to be hit hardest?
Wait for it…
East Anglia…right where the CRU is! There IS a god.
… muor’ please!
BBC at lunchtime, UK and Europe is cold but Canda is warm so it all balances out. Doh
Quite a change in albedo. Now what did those warmers say about feedback??
Where’s Ireland?
“cough” —- Scotsman here,
I can assure you we have some snow here to and minus 22 Celcius last night, It’s just we deal with it better than them “doon south”. And sure the Welsh have a dusting as well. As for Northern Ireland?
Perhaps UK covered or Britain covered?
Excellent site btw keep up the good work
Incredible. Might want to change the headline to “All of Britain” to emphasize that Wales is covered as well.
REPLY: Good suggestion, done. -A
Actually it is not merely ‘England’ which is buried in snow and ice; it is England, Scotland and Wales – separate kingdoms -each with its own devolved parliament – but collectively known as the ‘United Kingdom’ – or UK. Not being pedantic but the Scots and the Welsh get very pissed off when Americans refer to the UK as ‘England’.
See that top bit – that’s called Scotland
See that bit 3/4 of the way down to the West – that’s called Wales
I guess that there is only a probability that the Met Office is worth all that money that the UK spends on them, then.
On the BBC TV news last night, the Ever-More-Idiotic David Shukman trotted out the well-reheased, ‘Weather and climate are not the same thing’ mantra to justify that one severe winter does not change the facts about climate change (Warming!)
Yet how often in the past has he siezed on a one-off weather event (hotter-than-usual-summer or heavy rainfall creating flash floods) to ‘prove’ man-made climate change?
If only he realised how stupid he appears he would chuck it all in and take up something useful like needlework.
I think that the MET office are probably warmist propagandists. But then I don’t have a billion pound computer/ budget running duff models to do my thinking for me so I could probably be much more accurate about them than they are about the weather/climate. The sad thing is they are paid out of my taxes.
Yes, I watched Newsnight last night, particularly the debate between apologist A and apologist-apologist B (I can’t remember their names), with Jeremy Vine asking the questions. Much of the discussion centred on use of probabilities in weather forecasting. Vine asked an important question however, with respect to how confident we could be in the very long term climate models, given the abject failure of the short and medium term models. The apologist and the apologist-apologist pointed out that the models were “validated”, so there was nothing to worry about. We can have much more confidence in them than in “forecast” models, such as those used to predict the weather a few months in advance.
HAHA (sorry for the demented laughter),
I wrote a letter of complaint to the BBC about article bias, as they didn’t front anyone to explain how useless the models are in general, including the very long term models, when it is obvious to all but the most stupid cretin that these people do nothing other than spout crap. I also pointed out that the models are calibrated to past temperatures not “validated”. Calibration is, in essence, an excersise in curve fitting.
“Despite this – and we are now in our 25th day of sub zero temperatures – the MET Office put up a spokesman on Newsnight last evening claiming that their forecast for a ‘very mild winter’ had ‘only been a probability!!”
Damned ^&*%$ and F£!$%*%$ every last one of them, & those are just the polite words you can use in front of your Great Aunt! At least Andrew Neil of the Politics Show is starting to do his homework with his figures & roasting the Head of the Met Office, who kept droning on & on about how recognised the Met Office is around the world for its leading ability to make accurate short-term weather forecasts, but of course sidesteps the issue about Climate Change forecasting by claiming it is a different area (& an infant one at that) of science. I for one would like to know just who are the independent sources who have verified this amazing claim! The IPCC & the WMO I suspect.
So the glaciers in the UK are not yet melting?
Amy chance you could change your headline to reflect both the photograph and the article? It’s not just England.
It looks like a kind of a new “Greenland”. Are the members of the Catlin expedition down there?
O s..t, the next ice age has started without us noticing it. Today must be the day after tomorrow.
BTW, just refer to us as the British Isles as that way you cover everybody as even Ireland is in that part.
AtB
Thanks for changing the headline.
Each with its own devolved parliament, Borderer? I think not. Scotland and Wales, yes……England, No!
South of the border we are lumbered with a cabal of incompetent Scots led by Gormless Brow.
Still, not for much longer!
There is a good article with this photo describing the appalling state of the weather in the UK – here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1241060/Severe-weather-warning-Snowstorms-cost-economy-14-5bn-millions-stay-home-did-make-work-face-nightmare-journey.html
Here in the Scottish Borders we are suffering our 27th day when the temperature has rarely risen above zero and this is our 23rd day of continuous snow cover. Many main roads have been closed and side roads are only passable by 4WD or tractor. Cattle and sheep are in grave danger as it is now very difficult for farmers to reach hill flocks – and with 4 feet of snow on the hills they cannot feed themselves.
“Britain is facing the coldest night of the winter so far tonight as the death toll from the freezing weather continues to rise.
Temperatures are expected to drop to lower than -20C in the Scottish Highlands tonight, following lows of -17.7C in Benson, Oxfordshire and -15C in Manchester overnight – the same temperatures found in domestic freezers.
Meteogroup forecaster Andy Ratcliffe said the Scottish Highlands will be worst hit by tonight’s icy blast.
He said: ‘It Scotland it could be the coldest night of the winter for Britain, with temperatures as low as the minus 20s in the Highlands.
‘Snow showers will creep in to parts of East Anglia, Kent and Scotland again overnight and tomorrow.
‘There will also be a windchill factor going into the weekend making many areas, even in daytime, feel like minus 7C.’
Roads, trains and airports were also subjected to another day of havoc.
Huge queues formed at Eurostar terminals after a train broke down inside the Channel Tunnel for two hours earlier today. It comes just weeks after thousands of passengers were stranded after a number of trains broke down before Christmas.
Nearly all train companies reported disrupted services, with commuters suffering from both a reduction in frequency on routes and problems caused by broken-down trains. Southeastern trains cancelled several services in Kent, while snow chains were fitted to buses on major routes in Brighton.
By 12.30pm today, the Automobile Association had attended around 11,000 breakdowns since midnight. British Airways axed flights at Gatwick and Heathrow and EasyJet cancelled around 70 flights at Gatwick.”