It appears this winter is rough not only in the USA, but elsewhere,. Significant snowfalls were also seen in 2002 and 2004. From Today’s Zaman:
Snowfall immobilizes rural communities in eastern, central Turkey
Cold weather and heavy snowfall brought daily life to a standstill in rural parts of Turkey, forcing closures of rural roads and inter-city routes in the country’s eastern and central regions.
Snowfall was responsible for the closure of a highway on Thursday connecting the Hakkari district, located within the province of the same name, to the district of Çukurca. Several vehicles became stuck in the snow. Highway crews used snow plows to move the snow from the highway and free the vehicles.
Blizzards closed down over 1,000 village roads in the country’s eastern regions, and an inter-city route between Erzurum and Bingöl provinces was reopened to traffic after hours of plowing; however, the Iğdır-Ağrı inter-city road is still closed to traffic.
All of you skeptic wierdoes have lost your wits. We all know that global warming causes global cooling. Face it, after you barely survive your greenhouse gas induced winter freezes, you will suffer a spring of horrible tornadoes and hurricanes followed by massive droughts that will kill what plants are left after they are savaged by a plague of insects. After you eat what little meat animals remain you will collect all of the sea slugs, moss and anything else you can scavange from the sides of old buildings that were submerged when the oceans rose. Thanks in advance for destroying this beautiful earth and ravaging Mother Nature just so you can drive a bigger SUV and use the internet.
Comprehensive weather reporting: The weather will be below normal, near-normal, normal or above normal, guaranteed.
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Mystic Met: A Review of UK Met Office Predictions and Statements
http://www.climatechangefraud.com/content/view/2982/218/
“The Met Office is the UK Government’s official Meteorological agency and a key promoter of climate alarmism, which claims that simulation models are now accurate predictors of both global and local effects of stimuli to the climate.”
“… global temperatures in 2007 dropped nearly 0.8 C according to satellite data, one of the sharpest drops on record. In order to hit The Met’s 2014 prediction, there will have to be a large increase over the next few years.”
“2008 is set to be cooler globally than recent years say Met Office and University of East Anglia climate scientists, but is still forecast to be one of the top-ten warmest years.”
“It has been a miserable summer for bugs as well as people…The combined effect of low temperatures and rain has presented Britain’s invertebrates with a double whammy.”
“The latest update to the Met Office winter forecast suggests that although the coming winter will have temperatures near or above average, it is very likely that December will be colder than normal.”
re:Spain’s Baqueira Beret ski resort has reported a new record has been set for snowfall with 435cm (Over 36 feet) of snow having fallen since 29th October.
435cm is a little over 14 feet, not 36 feet.
Still snowing with a reivised forcast of-More Snow. for NE Oregon.I wonder if the NOAA
computers are a little skewed for ah, warming ?…
Mother Nature never seems to tire of tweaking the noses of the climate alarmists. Especially when they stick out so, like Pinnochio’s.
Mike McMillan (10:34:08) :
Well, I could suggest you keep in mind that temperature leads CO2. Since the Carbon Scheme (i.e. word-wide recession) will lead to lower CO2 levels, temperature has to drop now in anticipation of the CO2 decline.
WUWT has a “mirror” at http://omniclimate.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/introducing-john-p-holdren-harvard-authoritarian/
complete with falling snow.
“Douglas DC (12:16:51) :
Still snowing with a reivised forcast of-More Snow. for NE Oregon.I wonder if the NOAA computers are a little skewed for ah, warming ?…”
I know that their forecasts for south Texas kept coming up high, so I have recently switched to Weather Underground.
When the weather is really cold why do alarmists call it “bad” weather? I thought that warming was bad. Shouldn’t all the cold weather worldwide be regarded as “great” weather, since warming is bad. I am a little dense sometimes, maybe someone can help me understand this…
🙂
An out-the-door check shows snow falling all around. Beginning to look a lot like a Berl Ives Christmas card! I just watched a farmer try to get an old rear wheel tractor out of the warehouse driveway so that he could use it to plow snow down at his house. Almost didn’t make it as the rear wheels spun on the packed snow. The jet stream pattern combined with cloud and temperature data indicates we will have snow all day. While the NWS predicts rain, they have that wrong for Wallowa County. The temperature is currently between 22 and 30 degrees depending on where the temp gauges are. No where near the high of 39 predicted by the NWS just a few hours ago. I have noticed that they are adjusting downward as the day progresses.
By all means discuss interesting weather events, but don’t read too much into it with respect to the climate. A lot has been said about the cold start to winter in the UK, but at this moment in time the December 2008 average is within a whisker of the long term December average. Dec 2008 will probably end up being the coldest December since 2001(assuming the recent cold snap sticks around til the end of the month). There were at least 3 Decembers in 1990 which were colder – 2 of them much colder.
So we may also be getting more La Ninas accompanied by a negative PDO and a going negative AMO… things are getting chilly and possibly worse if the sun stays spotless. Let’s hope we also won’t be revisited by a Dalton Minimum, or worse, another Maunder Minimum. I know I’ve been kidding around about those two minimums, but if they really are just around the bend we could be in for a nasty cold several decades.
The Spain quote seems to have generated a stir. The point is that Spain is having record snow, and there is probably no need for anyone to be too distracted by the author’s ability to convert to English units. Spain is a metric country after all.
http://www.skiinfo.com/News/Baqueira-Beret-EESBAQUEIRA-104-en.jhtml?aic=151433
John Finn,
I wouldn’t read too much into the mild weather last week in the UK. The long term forecast for most of Europe and the UK is cold.
http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp4.html
Just published “Guardian” would have to one of the most significant articles published just in time 4 days to go!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/3982101/2008-was-the-year-man-made-global-warming-was-disproved.html
Check out the lone voice in the wilderness of the MSM http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/3982101/2008-was-the-year-man-made-global-warming-was-disproved.html.
We may not have had a white Christmas in England, but we seem to be having a blast from Siberia at the moment.
re: Mike C
Only the facts man only the facts. We are no longer interested in your alarmist carny act, we are not school children that you scare with your propagandist films and moronic chants. (Mr. Matthews wave his hand in Mr. mike’s face) -.0
Just as predicted by the global warming AlGorithms.
EW Matthews,
Save Yourself! Listen to Al Gore and carry every aspect of your life as he directs or we all are going to die!
“a new record has been set for snowfall with 435cm (Over 36 feet) ”
Errm, 435cm is just over 14 feet.
Keep your eyes on China leading up to next month’s Chinese New Year. Last year, 100’s of thousands of holiday makers (all trying to return home for new year festivities) were trapped in snowbound railway stations – some were trapped for weeks.
Last years inclement weather also affected the Asian rice crops and record high commodity rice prices and shortages world wide caused riots in many rice staple countries. Our rice prices are still very much higher than they were in 2006.
China is already receiving icy Mongolian ice blasts. (ironic that another lot of historic mongol invasions the series of great walls can not keep out.)
@Mike C (14:53:58) :
“EW Matthews,
Save Yourself! Listen to Al Gore and carry every aspect of your life as he directs or we all are going to die!”
Naaahhhhh…. Just buy indulg… er, carbon credits from Big Al’s Carbon Credit Emporium and everything will be just peachy. No need to concern yorself with your carbon footprint if you ACT NOW! and send in your money. (Operators are standing by. Free set of Ginsu knives to the first 100 callers.)
Obama’s New Science Adviser Wants to Spread the Wealth Around a Little
http://theamericansentinel.com/2008/12/19/obamas-new-science-adviser-john-chicken-little-holdren-wants-to-spread-the-wealth-around-a-little/
Most chilling about this appointment however, even worse than Holdren’s inquisition-like quest for scientific conformity, may be found in a presentation that Holdren gave at Harvard on November 6, 2007.
Entitled “Global Climate Disruption: What Do We Know? What Should We Do?“ Holdren sets out a plan of action to address global warming.
Starting off making it clear that he feels the term “global warming” isn’t radical enough to describe the present danger and presenting his case for catastrophic warming, he then provides his menu of options to deal with the problem. He says that we must use all options but those that prove “very costly or risky.”
The menu (in the order presented by Holdren):
Limiting Population
Slowing GDP/Person
Expanding Natural Gas
Wind
Biofuels
Photovoltaics
Nuclear Fission
Nuclear Fusion
CO2 Capture
End Use Efficiency
Meanwhile, thousands trapped in snowstorm in India.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Kolkata_/Thousands_trapped_in_-150_snowstorm_in_Sikkim/articleshow/3898706.cms
I’m so happy!
I live in a part of the USA that the Farmers Almanac said would have a mild winter (the southeast), and although we have had some really cold record breaking days, today we got up to 65 degrees. If there was a way I could reach old Al, I would send him a letter asking him to give up on this global warming crap considering how much I enjoyed it today.
If any of you have received email updates from Al concerning our impending doom, you may be interested in my link below. In this email I received, Gore asks people to help him STOP climate change. Is that stupid or what? How do you stop the climate???
Anyway, enjoy… http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/al-gore-wants-you-your-money/
If there is one prediction almost guranteed to be correct it is over the next century, billions of people are going to die. Barring any incredible medical breakthroughs, I’d estimate in the range of 6 billion plus.