“Overly Overcast: Germany Weathers Darkest Winter in 43 Years”
It seems that there’s a lot of gloom in Germany this Winter, more so than usual. This article in Spiegel explains why:
“The days may be getting longer, but there’s still not a hint of springtime sunshine in Germany. Weather data shows that this winter has been the gloomiest in 43 years. If the sun doesn’t start shining soon, it will be the darkest winter on record.
Winter in Germany is typically a grim affair, dark and steeped in the kind of chilly damp that goes straight to the bones — and, unhappily, to the psyche. But many residents feel that this winter has been particularly hard to bear.
Meteorologists say that’s because it has been the darkest winter in more than four decades. Less than an average of 100 hours of sunshine have been recorded so far over the course of the meteorological winter, which runs from December through February, said National Meteorological Service (DWD) spokesman Gerhard Lux on Monday. The winter average is an already measly 160 hours of sun.”
h/t to WUWT reader Michael Schaefer
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I wonder how all those new solar farms are doing?
How are those solar panels putting out for you? Germany.
Waiting for the headline “Global Warming Causes Dark Winters” should be out any minute now.
Global Warming causes Global Darkening…
That must be in the model somewhere.
Perhaps not the best time for an entire country to go solar?
RE: Gerhard Lux … Hmm.
Germany has 5 times the installed solar of the USA, but only gets as much sunlight as Alaska.
http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/green/newsid=28934.php
Fits in quite well with lower solar activity.
Similar comments from freinds and family in the UK, dark and gloomy!
No sunlight … climate change is worse than they thought
Sounds like Germany might be the first to snap. Strain on the psyche is not good, and they have already suffered badly after being so early and so eager to embrace Crazy Green.
If they don’t come to their senses on this global warming nonsense, their winters are going to be a whole lot more dark and gloomy as well.
kbray in california says:
February 27, 2013 at 9:14 pm
Global Warming causes Global Darkening…
That must be in the model somewhere.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I’m certain it is on the list. I’m going from memory here, but I think it is right after global warming causes colder winters, but right before global warming causes more snow.
(There was a rumour going around that global warming would cause less snow, but it turns out this was a misunderstanding of a statement by a researcher at the CRU. What he meant was that global warming would cause global dumbing, and children would not remember from one year to the next what snow was. Or how to spel dumming. Dumming beein lots like dimming which is the prosess that starts the darkening).
First there was peak oil, then peak wind, now it appears there’s peak light…
with the “green energy” being touted by red politicians, the light at the
end of the tunnel is in danger of being replaced by a low-wattage LED candle….
EnBW, the major provider in Baden-Wuerttemburg is now saying that
the bird choppers, er, windmill generators will really be taking off in 2014-2015.
Too bad they didn’t get the report on peak wind….
Could have saved the ratepayers a lot of money for useless ugly windmills…
Th UK is notoriously cloudy being surrounded by water with weather fronts frequently sitting off its coast.
Solar is not suitable in high northern climes (due to low incidence of sunlight particularly in the autumn to Spring period when energy demand is at its highest) and even less suitable where the country has a high rate of cloudiness.
Why and how politicians have been suckered into building/subsidising inefficient solar arrays and windfarms in high northern latitutes beggars belief. Any schoolboy would know the inefficiencies and that they could never be an economical way forward towards so called green energy production.
Spiegel
look again:
Spiegel
NOT Speigel !?
Richard Verney
Every schoolboy knows that all UK politicians are biddable corrupt scumbags so of course they will buy anything, no matter how inappropriate, so long as they get something out of it for themselves.
Actually, the issue with solar is how to store the excess energy generated in summer (you can of course have very long sunshine hour totals in summer due to day lengths being up to 20 hrs) to use in winter.
It’s the same with wind, turning energy generated when the wind blows into a form which can be switched on when demand peaks.
To a lesser extent, it’s the same with the tide. Turning the daily energy generated through tidal surges into a stream compatible with the demand profile.
The only lesson we should learn is that California knows nothing about our system, as they are subtropical with a climate where it really only rains for 3 months a year and where the southern part of the state is a desert.
Now if Washington State were developing technology, maybe they would be closer to our climate??
More likely the Japanese to be honest…….
It has been a lousy winter. Today has been forecast to be sunny for a week and it is actually once again thick heavy cloud cover. They can’t get a forecast right 12 hours in advance. The solar is a total joke in a country that doesn’t use a/c much.
Here in Germany, lots of solar arrays covered in snow. Guess it just isn’t worth taking the snow off when it’s so dark. Think I’ll just go an lie down under my SAD lamp 😉
In Norway where I live we have had less precipitation and clouds, and a bit colder than “normal”, this winter soo far! All the clouds migrated to Germany? I wonder why? But its okay and you can keep them. But I wonder where the the UNFCCC’s CAGW with milder and wetter winters are? DO they only exist in the minds of “scientist” that make a living on the UNFCCC?
Low sun activity = more cosmic rays = more clouds
Why must people make climate science soooo difficult?
Like living inside a Tupperware box.
Franz Dullaart says:
February 27, 2013 at 11:01 pm
Been looking in the mirror a lot lately, Franz? 😉
Hehe! It musta been fixed since! This little error crops up on occasion. Here’s another – the text could be fixed but the URL, not yet!
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/01/23/speigels-stunning-8-part-series-climate-catastrophe-a-superstorm-for-global-warming-research/
Today in the UK I am basking in +5C temperatures whilst my son in law in Spain reports snow today. Funny old world.
Edwin: Perhaps they should fit the solar arrays with heaters, and also illuminate them at night.
In sydney Australia we are having a cool and rainy feb and looks like march will be below average temp our dams are over flowing despite the global warming movment saying our dams will never be full again, when will this fraud stop as i am getting sick to the teeth of it