More indicators of a colder than normal winter continuing in the northern hemisphere.
From the London Telegraph:
Britain is enduring its most miserable Easter for 25 years as Arctic winds sweep in, bringing snow, hail and sleet.
Easter Sunday temperatures could drop to as low as -3C at night with a band of snow and sleet forecast to move down from the North. The bad weather is most likely to affect the Midlands but snow could even reach London, forecasters said.
From the Sofia news agency:
Bulgaria Meets Vernal Equinox With Snow, Sun Gleams
From This is London:
It’s Bad Friday: Britain braced for worst Easter weather in 25 years as country is battered by gales and sleet.
From the Stars and Stripes:
Snow hits Germany military bases with more possible for Easter.
From CTV.ca
‘Spring’ weather nasty for Eastern Canada
Also from CTV.ca
Six more weeks of winter, top weatherman forecasts
From KDKA-TV:
Snow Advisory In Effect For Parts Of Western Pa
From RedOrbit:
Nebraskans and Iowans heading east for the Easter weekend were experiencing flight delays or snow-covered roads today, and the troubles could continue into Saturday.
From the Detroit Free Press:
Heavy snow across Michigan and points west meant increasing cancellations and delays at Metro Airport today, with things getting worse as snow piled up.
From swissinfo.ch
The Easter break has started with heavy snowfall and strong winds in Switzerland, causing some disruption to traffic.
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The global warmerers are doubtless saying this is just one cold winter, and they have a point. After all, 1998 looked like pretty good evidence that something urgent had to be done about anthropogenic global warming or else dreadful disaster was imminent.
The evidence that world climate is primarily controlled by the sun will show up to the extent that the solar trend differs substantially from the CO2 trend for ten years or so, not for six months or so. If the next solar cycle starts tomorrow, the global warming trend might well continue, leaving the cause of climate change unclear.
Of course what I am hoping for is a complete shutdown of the solar sunspot cycle, with the earth rapidly heading into little ice age conditions, with, as in the last little ice age, massive crop failures, soaring food prices, wars as people blame other people for economic deterioration – and even blame other people for the bad weather. Expect that as the wars begin, the global warmers will be first to denounce the Jews, the witches, and the white anglo saxon protestant males for causing the crops to fail and the cow’s milk to dry up. But a complete shutdown of the solar cycle will give me the the satisfaction of knowing for sure the real cause of climate change.
REPLY: I truly hope you are wrong, modern civilization has ridden on the coattails of a warming cycle.
Hello, I can confirm that it snowed from Brussels to Luxembourg on friday the 21st. The snow had no hold though and melt directly, except a little in the Ardennes.
Bluddy cold, this global warming thingy…..
But of course the AGW mob’ll say, ” that’s because Easter is early this year….”
…So instead…. It’s a bluddy cold March 22nd then….
: )
Good thing they switched to calling it climate change. Whatever happens, it’s man’s fault. But, if everyone just switches of their lights and stops breathing for one hour on March 29 from 8pm – 9pm we will all be saved. Hallelujah, and praise the climatelord Gore, Amen.
I’ve been looking at the 10 day forecast models for the last few weeks: http://weather.unisys.com/gfsx/9panel/gfsx_500p_9panel.html hoping for spring to arrive.
I’m certainly not a weather/climate specialist, but I am a scientist (physics) who also suffers through New England winters 🙂 . The pattern I see in the models looks like a merry-go-round of lows moving around the North Pole. Reminds me of the more usual pattern seen in January. I read somewhere this is due to the “Polar Vortex” shifting a bit south and until it decides to move back north, the pattern will continue. Can anyone verify that?
Of course it is all due to global warming. AKA: natural variation or normal climate change. As it stated in the song years ago: “What will be will be the future is not ours to see.
Maybe if they had cleaned their crystal balls they would have seen this coming.
Of course Easter doesn’t occur on the same date every year. In fact this is one of the earlier Easters we’ll see in our lifetimes.
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James~ you’ve read my mind, but I am also hoping things don’t get quite that bad. I DO expect the agw hystericysts and the MSM to ignore the solar situation for as long as possible, or until the goreacle et al can find a way to exploit it for power over the people- not to mention Money.
And somehow if it were warmer than “normal” that would be a bad thing, whereas being this cold is demonstrably a bad thing.
The night to the 22 of march was the coldest night this year in Norway with every single station below 0 deegre celsius…
I tend to go with the usual view that the usual solar cycles don’t change much (c. 0.1C/cycle) but that a major shutdown can cause serious downward swings. If it’s true that the sun spends 10 to 20% of it’s time in a major minimum state, we are definitely overdue.
James and Otter,
I don’t think you underestimate the AGW hysterics and the charlatans like Gore, but I think the contemporary news media may surprise you. The Print Media in particular has lost millions of readers because their agenda is so obvious. They risk near total irrelevance if they fail to report a climate trend that everyone can see with their own eyes. The fact that the Alarmists have had to constantly move the goal posts and, even change the definition from Global Warming to Climate Change is not lost on a large number of people. I think, at this point, time is our friend. The next step is to elect people who emphasize positive, productive energy policies vs. Gorian scams like carbon credits and cap and trade.
I’m one of those grandfathers who like to sit my grandkids on my knee and tell them how, back in the late 50’s and early 60’s I trudged a mile to high school, in sub-zero temperatures, through a foot of snow, uphill – both ways. (OK that last part is a bit of an exaggeration). Who in their right mind would want to return to those days?
As I write this, it’s 27 degrees and snowing pretty hard in Northeastern Indiana.
BTW, how can it be a “continuing cold winter”–after March 22? How can it be a “winter” anything? (Silent Spring, anyone?)
Anthony says:
I truly hope you are wrong, modern civilization has ridden on the coattails of a warming cycle.It is truely a sad state of affairs where some feel they must hope for the lesser evil of a mini ice age in order to avoid the greater evil of carbon regulation induced poverty and suffering. This would not be necessary if the warmers had not turned science into a religion with computer models as the holy books.
Raven,
That’s the most concise description of the dilemma we face that I have read recently. And to call it a “truly sad state of affairs” is an understatement.
Sorry to warm up the discussion, but Northern California weather is absolute perfect right now. 🙂
That aside, I’ve been studying the link between accumulated number of spotless days during solar cycle transition as a predictor of solar cycle magnitude and global climate. A particularly chilling prediction comes from David Archibald who advocates low solar activity for solar cycles 24 and 25 consistent with the Dalton Minimum.
It is clear that cycle 24 is behaving much differently then past cycles 16-23 which occurred during the period of 20th century warming, and behaving consistent with solar cycles occurring during the little ice age.
http://users.telenet.be/j.janssens/Spotless/Spotlessevolution.png
It’s a real shame the consequences of a cooler Earth, which is potentially more dangerous to humanity, does not receive any media attention. Global warming is portrayed as inevitable and catastrophic based on an anthropogenic warming theory which is without sound evidence, no I do not believe the models.
If the Earth enters a cooling trend, it will force the AGW advocates to rethink their models, but the media will not retrace the AGW story that has been told. I believe it will be up to the community that believes the climate is mostly affected by natural causes, such as those who participate in this blob, to reverse the brain washing done to the public.
By way of the Drudge Report the AGW faithful down-under are acknowledging the cooling weather.
Climate facts to warm to
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23411799-7583,00.html
In response to James Donald’s post, the people who are demanding that we give up our freedom so that they can save us from Global Warming will be demanding that we give up our freedom so they can save us from Global Cooling, nothing will change. How dare the Capitalists exploiters of the downtrodden control the world’s food supplies!
I was hopping that that we might have the nukes online before things got really bad, but with the way the sun is behaving and all the idiots in Washington that is not very likely. I wonder how much longer NASA and NOAA can keep the lid on. I suspect nothing will be reported until after the November election and one of The Three Stooges is elected President of the United States.
Bean Books has a free eBook library which has a title by the name of Fallen Angels, which many of you may find of interest. If the sun continues its current behavior Fallen Angels may prove to be prophetic.
http://www.webscription.net/p-137-fallen-angels.aspx
IT ALL HAPPENED SO FAST
One minute the two space Hab astronauts were scoop-diving the atmosphere, the next they’d been shot down over the North Dakota Glacier and were the object of a massive manhunt by the United States government.
That government, dedicated to saving the environment from the evils of technology, had been voted into power because everybody knew that the Green House Effect had to be controlled, whatever the cost. But who would have thought that the cost of ending pollution would include not only total government control of day-to-day life, but the onset of a new Ice Age?
Stranded in the anti-technological heartland of America, paralyzed by Earth’s gravity, the “Angels” had no way back to the Space Habs, the last bastions of high technology and intellectual freedom on or over the Earth. But help was on its way, help from the most unlikely sources ….
By the way, Jim Bean, who passed away in 2006, was a skeptic and a great friend of freedom.
Mike
Vancouver Island: Snow finally melting on lower slopes of Mt Benson, near Nanaimo, but mountains inland still have snow cover with no readily discernible change. Current external temperature 5 degrees celsius.
In response to James Donald’s post, the people who are demanding that we give up our freedom so that they can save us from Global Warming will be demanding that we give up our freedom so they can save us from Global Cooling, nothing will change.
Yeah, it’s like I said. Your 10-year old kid expresses all sorts of different problems. It turns out that all of them can be solved only by letting him stay up until 11:30.
The solutions is to treat them like the 10-year old kids they are.
I, saw wet snow falling today in Bedfont Lakes near Heathrow (London, I can hear Big Ben ringing as I write this). It did not stick, but I did get bombarded by hail while waiting outside for my cab
Poor Tom’s a-cold!
Unfortunately, it’s looking like the same weather pattern,for the most part, the next couple weeks. Polar vortex holding tough and the 540 line just does some northward teases. 540 line is the freezing line that is a good indicator of rain or snow for precip. Be prepared for a cool Spring and continued flooding issues in the middle of the U.S.
This will probably be the year that breaks the buzz phrase “global warming”.
Here in Sweden this winter has been one of the warmest for years, but this Easter is one of the cooldest Easter for years in March.
– 36 C in north and – 10 C here I live in the south of Sweden.
pekke
Winter in most West Europe was very warm this year because of Jet and NAO pattern, but this pattern has just broken in the last days, maybe to late for much cold in Europe.