Mike Ronanye writes:
Photo from Sky News
Story from UK Telegraph:
UK brought to standstill as five inches of snow falls in an hour
The press still can’t convert between Celsius and Fahrenheit.
The lowest weekend temperature was reported in rural Oxfordshire, where it sank to -21F (-6 C) overnight on Saturday. With gritters and snow ploughs out in force, most major roads remained open, although the going was slow on minor roads and police received a high volume of calls reporting minor accidents.
Assuming that -6C was the actual temperature, +21F was the correct conversion not -21F.
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RE: “Politically Correct Language”, then “Proper Weather Terms”…
Snow = WARMING
RE: “Downright Dick(i)nsonian”
I’m pretty sure Steve alludes to Emily Dickinson. Those New England winters were a b*tch!
Like brooms of steel (1252)
by Emily Dickinson
Like brooms of steel
The Snow and Wind
Had swept the Winter Street,
The House was hooked,
The Sun sent out
Faint Deputies of heat—
The Apple in the cellar snug
Where rode the Bird
The Silence tied
His ample, plodding Steed,
Was all the one that played.
In fact, for poetry of the cold, I’ll put a 19th-century New England winter up against the worst (best) the U.K. has to offer from any century. Ya got nothin’
Good grief… more bad news about the surface stations. At least the joke will be on Hansen. All the rotten data he and his GISS friends gathered and massaged to scare us into believing run away global warming will come back to bite them in the butt. When the climate swings to the cold phase because of the PDO turning negative Hansen and his buddies will have some explaining to do. The gods help us if because the sun is spotless we are visited by another Dalton or Maunder Minimum.
I’m sure Steve means Charles Dickens, as in Oliver Twist or A Christmas Carol.
Phil. (11:23:00) :
Thanks. Interesting data.
Also interesting to note that we are within 1 sigma of the 1772-2005 average, both in the smoothed trend and for 2004-2006.
And it’s amazing the beneficial effect 0.3-0.4 deg/century can have.
http://www.climateaudit.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=565
“…Steve means Charles Dickens…” I know.
D’oh!, my apologies.
I should use those little emoticons. (Sorry, Steve. Meant no offense.)
Nevertheless, WRT snow poetry, New England has a pile of it.
Don’t know if it was just 19th century.
Here’s the UK Hadley CET back to 1660 with the IPCC human emissions overlaid, plus the PPM.
http://cadenzapress.co.uk/download/mencken.xls
It can be just as warm at 280ppm as at 380ppm.
Take those figures further back to the MWP and Roman warm period and it can be WARMER at 280ppm than at 380ppm.
An inconvenient truth and why DR Mann said ‘the medieval warm period was an outdated concept’ when constructing his hockey sticks.
TonyB
A pickup line I often use in bars: “Did you know that -40 degrees Celsius is also -40 degrees Fahrenheit?”
While this information is highly arousing to other genders, they inevitably spot my pocket protector and all is lost.
More from the South
Southern Ocean more resilient than first thought
jeez (13:19:38) :
One night in Ashland NH my parents and I were at a restaurant and Dad ordered drinks for us, including the usual martinis for Mom and Dad. I think Mom usually had the martini with the lemon, and Dad liked his very dry with an olive. When the waitress came back with the drinks, she asked “Twist or olive?” I managed to wait until she left before commenting she should have asked “Oliver Twist?”
Bill P (13:04:50) :
RE: “Downright Dick(i)nsonian”
I’m pretty sure Steve alludes to Emily Dickinson. Those New England winters were a b*tch!
Isn’t the Dickinsonian Museum the place that preserves and displays all the bad weather? They wanted to build it in New England, but New England wasn’t big enough to hold all the weather worth displaying.
Just goes to show you should never take any notice of what you read in the Newspapers.
Temperatures of -6c in England in November are far from unusual – for example the temp dropped to -7c at Benson on the 21st Nov 2005 and after the famously cold summer of 2003 it fell to -9c at Carlisle during November. Benson is a well known frost hollow, often the coldest place in Southern England and frequently much colder than surrounding areas. My own mininum – I live about 30 miles away – was -1.9c
But nice to see some more normal Nov weather for a change after the last 2 years which have given us such usually warm months.
Bah …. humbug!
Mike Bryant ‘Okay, I am wondering why everyone is calling this “snow”.’
Some recent unseasonal snow in Eastern Australia had the Bureau of Meterology calling it “soft hail”
There will be claim of the ’10th warmest November in the south east since records began’, come the first week in December.
Newman (Seinfeld): When you control the mail, you control…. information!
Ric Werme (23:21:40) : “Isn’t the Dickinsonian Museum the place that preserves and displays all the bad weather? They wanted to build it in New England, but New England wasn’t big enough to hold all the weather worth displaying.”
A climate museum – that would definitely be worth a visit. With walk-through dioramas showing conditions as they might have been during the MWP (with a complimentary glass of English wine) and then the LIA (remember to wrap up warm!) One gallery could exhibit a collection of climate models, some still spinning merrily away, others broken (falsified.) Another gallery could house the museum’s extensive hockey stick collection – some smashed and in pieces, newer ones held together with sticky tape. Check out the award-winning restaurant too – try the succulent “Pachauri special” beefburger and for dessert enjoy a slice of pie “a la Lynas”, with the carbonated beverage of your choice.
Good online service for Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion, can help someone
http://www.convertcenter.com/convertunit.aspx/Temperature/Celsius/Fahrenheit/1/2/1
@alexjc38 (05:30:12) :
Please include generous helpings of Humble Pie, and Crow.
Here in the Netherlands we had some snow, in some parts even a few centimeters, but temperatures are above freezing! November was a mild month, one degree above average (1961-1990).
Moscow, Russia had it warmest December 3rd. No snow there, that is very exceptional!
“MOSCOW, December 3 (RIA Novosti) – The temperature in Moscow climbed to 6.6 degrees Celsius (44 degrees Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, breaking a 47-year-old record, the Russian meteorological website http://www.hmn.ru reported.
At 15:00 Moscow time (noon GMT), the air temperature climbed to 6.6 degrees Celsius in northern Moscow, breaking the 1961 record and setting a new one for December 3,” the report says.
On December 3, 1961, the temperature in the capital reached 6.2 degrees Celsius (43.2 degrees Fahrenheit). The average high and low temperatures in December in Moscow are -4 and -8 degrees Celsius (24.8 and 17.6 degrees Fahrenheit), respectively.
The day was also the warmest for the surrounding region, where the temperature reached 6.1 degrees Celsius (43 degrees Fahrenheit), surpassing a 0.5 degrees Celsius reading set in 1979.
The Russian capital has seen a spell of unusually warm weather in recent months. On November 12, the temperature in Moscow reached 8.9 degrees Celsius (48 degrees Fahrenheit), setting a new record.
This October was the warmest on record in Moscow, with an average temperature of over 9 degrees Celsius (48.2 degree Fahrenheit). “
REALLY THERE IS NO SNOW IN MOSCOW RUSSIA.AS MET DEPT. IS SAYING THERE IS HARDLY ANY CHANCE OF SNOW IN BEFORE CHIRSTMAS