Yesterday we saw the satellite image of the UK, buried under snow for the second time in 2010, see UK Covered in snow, for the second winter. And we’ve seen and heard the reports about the impact snow is having in the UK and in Europe. Now let’s have alook at some cold records.
Translated from http://www.yr.no/english/1.7405789 yr.no is the joint online weather service from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
Norway got over a hundred new records in November.
Cold, colder, coldest. Unless you remember back to the year 1919, November 2010 is definitely the “coldest.”
The whole country is in the freezer
In the middle of November, it was extremely cold in many parts of the country, “says Hans Olav Hygen.
It is not uncommon for parts of the country to stand out when meteorologists summarize the weather of the past. This time the whole of Norway that stands out.
“It is so special that large areas are cold at once. It has simply been an unusual situation that has pumped cold air into the country, “said Hygen.
On the whole, Norway has therefore experienced the coldest month of November since 1919, with the full 3.57 degrees below the normal level. Because the norm is regarded as cold , this is a very big difference!
In many parts of the country, this is the coldest November in living memory, “commented Hygen.
Of the various regions is the Trøndelag and western that stands out the most:
| Region | Deviations from the norm | |
|---|---|---|
| Norway | -3,57 | |
| Eastern | -3,66 | |
| Agder College | -2,85 | |
| Western Norway | -3,58 | |
| Trøndelag | -4,42 | |
| North Norway | -3,28 |
Norwegian November stats published today showing 93 of 200 national stations setting record lows (average or absolute) for November.
http://www.yr.no/nyheter/1.7405789
A station like Utsira, in the middle of the Gulf current, had a min low of -6.2 beating the 1890 record of -5.6
h/t to readers “rtgr” and Geir Nøklebye
We need to stop disrupting the climate!!
How does one say BRRRR in Norsk?
My wife has African friends who live there. Mind you she has been there for some time, but not looking good for the AGW crowd.
Is it true that the record lows are being blamed on the Gulf oil spill slowing the Gulf Stream? I heard that in conversation a few weeks ago.
Given the cold in Norway, and that the UK is setting some records… and Germany is frozen over…
And it’s none too warm in the USA… and Australia is cold and wet…
And the Pacific is showing decidedly cold…
Maybe it’s time for a summary report on new cold records? I remember a neat map from prior years showing records as colored dots… or was that only a USA thing?
Oh, and I’ve heard some assertions that the Gulf Stream has slowed down, but not any actual references, and statements that the Jet Stream had wandered off..
So could we maybe fine a Met Guy somewhere who could give us a rundown on what really is causing all this cold? (hint hint 😉
I see no relation of the above November graph with CO2 levels. Maybe CO2 has a month off. Similarly, there are some months in my country record, which show no trend at all since 1900. Spring and summer trends are closely related to AMO and winter ones to NAO.
and today I hear the cancoons saying 2010 is close to the hottest ever…?
With weather like now in Europe and earlier in the year, as well as lately in Australia, would any one really agree with this: “Decade the hottest ever, says UN” ? As in:
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/decade-the-hottest-ever-says-un-20101203-18j9x.html
“Don’t be fooled by Australia’s wet and mild conditions.
A United Nations weather agency report, released on Friday, found 2010 is almost certain to rank as one of the hottest three years on record while the past 10 years are the warmest period since climate data began in 1850.”
Is this real or a fiddle? The so-called “global temperature” is as I understand by trying to assess the mean of monthly temperatures in specific “grids.” What result would be found by determining the trend in as many centres as possible throughout all landmasses and on islands (near oceans or seas) and then assess the range of trends and some kind of average? This would overcome one of the problems, that of the differences in temperature due altitude.
Confirmed. Norway HAS had it’s codest winter in living memory and on record. My wife’s friend lives in “Bodo”, and everyone is talking about the “cold”, cold in Norway?
But this is just weather.
I’m confused.
Reading the UK press, some experts say these record cold conditions are just natural variation, while other experts say they are proof of global warming.
Which is it?
Bob: BRRRR is fine 🙂
Btw.: An important difference from this time last year is that Svalbard is slightly colder than normal: http://www.yr.no/place/Norway/Svalbard/Longyearbyen/statistics.html
1 dec and 2 dec, The Bilt, The Netherlands set a new lowest maximum temp record. 1dec -3,7 C and for 2dec -6,1 C. Beating the records from 1940: -2,9 C and 1973: -1,8 C. In the beginning of the month we had a record warmest minimum temp on 6 november. Conclusion: A rapid transfer from warm to cold in the extreme way.
The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute is of course annoyed by a second very cold winter, it disrupts their mission to communicate, to the public, the severity of man made global warming.
http://www.smhi.se/en
http://www.smhi.se/forskning/kallt-i-sverige-men-varmt-globalt-1.13949
“Cold in Sweden but globally warm.”
The message in the article is that without global warming, the cold winters (in europe) would have been much (some 3 degrees C) colder, it is stated as an undisputed fact.
@Bob Tisdale: I heard that the oil spill made the Gulf Stream more slippery and thus flowing faster. But both possibilities are predicted by GCMs.
I read that a TV lady claimed that the extreme heat in the artic has pushed all the cold air away from the artic, down south to the northern hemisphere.
So it really is (was?) the hottest year ever.
It’s just that the heat has been masked by the cold.
Or am I missing something?
Anyway the long drought continues throughout all of the eastern half of Australia.
Again it’s just somewhat masked by all the rain and flooding we’re having.
(But behind the clouds, the sun is shinning and it’s really hot, in a cold sort of way.)
Be thankful you ungrateful lot. If it wasn’t for the affects of CO2, it would have been much much colder.
So lets see, 0.7 warming due to AGW
Norway -3,57 (- 0.7 ) = -4.27
Eastern -3,66 (-0.7) = -4.36
Agder Colleg -2,85 (-0.7) = -3.75
Western Norway -3,58 (-0.7) = -4.28
Trøndelag -4,42 (-0.7) = -4.12
North Norway -3,28 (-0.7) = -3.98
Brrrrrrr, much worse, see?
Nobody said there won’t be anymore cold periods, it’s just that it’s not as cold as it would have been if not for AGW. /-sarc off
amicus curiae says:
December 3, 2010 at 4:01 am
and today I hear the cancoons saying 2010 is close to the hottest ever…?
Only if they use rectal thermometers…
Our temperatures in Newfoundland are well above normal for this time of year … but hey it’s just weather 🙂
This is of course as expected by AGW except that it is much worse than predicted.
Take a look at the graph from our Met Office above. As you can see, the average November temperature for last year was 2 degC above “normal” (1961 – 1990 average). Except it was not. Last November was one of the coldest ones in “living memory”. But after a bit of “homogenization”, and with people having short memories, anything goes.
According to the “Adresseavisen” (local paper here in Trondheim), this November has been the coldest on record. And that record is a full 222 years long! I guess we were early getting mercury into glass tubes up here.
What’s the matter? 21C, shorts, t-shirt & thongs weather.
What’s that little dash before it, mate? We don’t get those here….
Damn: 31C ^^^
Follow the inner NH jet stream circle. Wherever the wind direction arrows stream out of the Arctic Circle, it will be cold in that area and in those countries. Go to this website and build your own animated loop. It isn’t rocket science. A 5th grade student can predict where the cold temps will be based on the pattern of air flow (thus pressure gradients) inside the inner circle of our NH jet stream.
http://squall.sfsu.edu/scripts/nhemjetstream_model.html
Hi Bob Tisdale
Yes its true, some are trying to make carbon-energy guilty for a possible cold winter by saying that the oil-spil in the gulf area would caus a very cold winter in Europe.
So the theory goes, that this oil somhow should disable the warm current that makes Northern Atlantic warm… and therefore we should see a cold winter. (that is : No problem for the Co2-hypothesis)
Just one smaaaal problem: The North Atlantic this autumn has not at all been cold, it has been warm. Further more hte cold reaching Europe comes from the North and east..
So one thing is a hypothesis out of the blue (that for some reason is allowed through medias all over the world including Denmark) another thing is: These people MUST have been aware that there where NO cold North Atlantic when they came with their story that should explain a possible cold European winter this year.
So either they have not bothered to look at North Atlantic temperatures this fall, or else they speak against what they know is true.
But the AGW-media machinery works perfectly still: Some jerks propose something grotesk which can be proven wrong instantly. And we end up having medias all over the world give peoble an excuse as to why the Co2 could not hold Europe warm, and why carbon-energy is to blame even for cold.
BTW: In Denmark we had 100 year november cold record broken too.
K.R. Frank
Minus 4C equals about 22F.