WUWT readers may recall this post from last year on January 8th, 2010
All of Britain covered by snow
Along with a stunning satellite image. Well, it has happened again, much earlier this year. See the newest satellite image below.
From the BBC they write:
The University of Dundee’s satellite receiving station captured this image of how the heavy snow of the past week has affected the UK.
The picture, which was received at 1145 GMT on Thursday from Nasa satellite Terra, shows almost the entire country covered by a blanket of snow.
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That’s bound to put a chill on AGW.
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That AGW sure is a mean one. At this rate, no one will be around to enjoy the tropical temperatures that return in, what, 500 years?
put a chill on AGW? Why, Sir, don’t you know that this is the absolute PROOF of Global Warming right here!!!
as soon as we get a chance to backdate our predictions, you will see that this is EXACTLY what we always predicted!!!
It is not only earlier than last year, but much, much worse, with snow depths that have not been seen in many decades.
Will I get to be the first to say, ‘This is as expected with global warming, and only proves it is much worse than predicted’?
Icing on the cake………..sweet
A wonderful opportunity to capture the magic of nature with the kids…..
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubeVUnGQOIk&fs=1&hl=en_US]
another rare and exciting weather event!
Well the UK should be clear of snow by… well what is their forecast for snow?
The next 5 – 6 days in 12 hour increments…
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg136/BigLee57/UKsnow1.jpg
Think it will clear up after that?.. the next following 24 hours…
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg136/BigLee57/UKSnow2.jpg
Wasn’t the MET office warning that soon the children wouldn’t know what show was because of the global warming?
This is awesome!!
No it won’t. This is one of those extreme weather events which is a result of AGW. The whole point of a religion is that it’s rationale allows for all eventualities.
Can someone please let me know how the CBC can report that its the warmist year in the history of Canada???
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/12/02/climate-change-cancun-wmo.html
Living in western Canada I have no idea how this can be so. Our Saskatoon summers have been well below average temperature-wise the past two years, and was insanely cool and wet for much of the time this year as well. What am I missing?
Could not happen at a better time. Won’t make a difference to the true believers though. Hansen will still have his hottest on record even he he has to blowtorch each thermometer himself.
Further to the snow I suspect the wind farms will be generating somewhere between zilch and zero as well. Just the power source to keep the hearth warm on frigid and still nights. Oh we are blessed to be surrounded by so many brilliant minds and not a skerrick of common sense between them.
Not even winter yet, “WARMEST YEAR EVER”!
Jackasses.
I was just about to post this image to the “Tips & Notes” page when I noticed it had made it to the front page. This is the earliest and heaviest early snow I can remember in my 30-something years. Minus 10 in Edinburgh just now and 2 feet of snow. Heading north tomorrow to a place which is currently minus 18. Thank goodness for the winter tyres….
My youngest was amazed to see somone had built an igloo in my local park , its about nine feet high and nearly as wide , she and the dog crawled through the door and sat inside , she thought it was wonderful ( wanted to sleep in it just like 11 year old’ s do !!) We have had record cold and snowfall , I have not seen the like since the sixties and thought with global warming I never would again . Boy when the UK cuts back on CO2 it does it with a vengence – now we have got no warmth left at all !! Definately think we have overdone it as per usual .
That’s twice in one year! The previous time was January and now again in December. But they still want us to believe that 2010 is the hottest year ever! Do they think we are all nuts?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/8175591/Cancun-climate-change-summit-2010-was-hottest-year-on-record.html
There is a funny in the Telegraph article too. One sentence reads ‘The UK has had its coldest year since 2010’.
I wonder how long it will be before someone notices and changes that one?
And just like last year, my location is one of the tiny little green patches. I am the Anti-Gore.
Jay: it was the esteemed CRU rather than the Met Office, so here we go, it’s the Independent’s most visited page, 10 years after it was published.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
I see that one of the related stories is More snow forecast as disruption continues in Scotland. Is that “human disruption” or “climate disruption?”
Guess they’ll just have to crank up the wind power.
When Britain has hard winters, you usually get a few in a row, then you can be mild for quite a lot of years also. 1979 – 1987 saw quite a few hardish to hard winters. Most of the other winters in the 1970s were pretty mild……….
I don’t see this as a long-term trend, more something which will last a few years……..
Just remember, we get more snow in warmer years.
Riiiiiiight……..
Nobody would listen to me and thought I was a flake for showing this is part of the atmospheric pressure build-up that is changing this planet.
George Monbiot – has a weather not climate moment in the Guardian
A fantastic comment in Cif that made it past the mods (maybe they’ve had enough -all though I still can’t get a comment on)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2010/dec/02/cancun-climate-change-summit-monbiot?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments
oakwood
2 December 2010 8:30PM
George
I hope you have your skates sharpended and ready…
Jan 2009: “THE SCEPTICS ARE SKATING ON THIN ICE
I have spent the last two evenings skating. I wouldn’t have missed it for anything. All of us knew that this time might be our last. With every year the chances of another skating party recedes.The thought that I might never skate outdoors again feels like a bereavement. I pray for another cold snap.”
Oh dear…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/09/climatechange-weather
Jan 2010: “BRITAIN’S COLD SNAP DOES NOT PROVE CLIMATE CHANGE WRONG
This is called weather, and, believe it or not, it is not always predictable and it changes quite often. It is not the same as climate, and single events are not the same as trends. Is this really so hard to understand?”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/jan/06/cold-snap-climate-sceptics
Nov 2010: Earliest cold snap in years
George says:”When heatwaves strike, climate scientists and environmentalists tend towards caution, explaining that though such events may be consistent with predictions they cannot be used as proof that climate change is taking place:” Er, yes, of course they do.
The Norwegian Met office reports this is the coldest November on record since the year 1900, where the monthly average for the country is 3.9 C below normal. In the inland, some places where 6-7.5 C below normal.
The Utsira Fyr station located in the middle of the Gulf current south-west of Norway recorded a minimum of -6.2 C, the lowest measured temperature since recordings started in 1867.