Jos, one of WUWT’s readers abroad writes:
“It is very cold here in Beligium. This is from today’s edition of the flemish newspaper ‘De Standaard’:”
You can find in online here, page 21 of the paper, and page 33 of the link below:
http://www.standaard.be/Krant/Beeld/?oDay=07&oMonth=01&oYear=2009
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We Canucks take pride in our ability to withstand the cold, but this is ridiculous. A friend from Saskatchewan e-mailed the other day to let me know that it was -40 and ask me if I knew what was significant about that? I told her two things, first that at -40 Farenheit and Celsius are equal in terms of temperature, and that if it happens, it is a sign to move south. They had windchill of -50’s C. No thanks.
How civilized mankind has become. Now we burn the message; three hundred years ago we would have burned the messenger.
Hmmm — I wonder if Mr. Gore will be present in D.C. on 20 Jan. to demonstrate the Gore Effect…
Perfect.
….right click, save as…..
OT: I see that lawyers are getting positioned to cash in on the Global Warming scam: http://www.ali-aba.org/course/view_email.cfm?htmlfile=cp052-b.htm
Hathaways new Solar Cycle Model: Start here! Start Now!
In 5 years the spots will start rolling in.
rtw
GoreHansenMann Pessimum Period. It sounds like a law firm. What’s the difference?
Classic!
And more CO2 too!
Peter,
It’s a shame that Global warming has caused the -40 degrees. we need to try harder to lower CO2 emissions. I hope that your not over using any CO2 causing energy sources up there trying to stay warm.
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Howsit annabelle from a fellow south african!
Too true, KZN has experienced below normal temps and above normal rainfall. the snow we had here in the natal midlands was apparently the most seen since 1890s and Durban had it’s coldest september on record!
Couldn’t agree more, we have had barely any summer since 2007. The rain has been too much… not sure about the earlier post about predictions of low rainfall in SA in winter… clearly these scientists have never lived here lol
This is what the UK Met Office has on their Xmas wishlist 🙂
http://anhonestclimatedebate.wordpress.com/2008/12/24/uk-met-office-christmas-wishlist
Al Gore in “Ground hot day” 🙂
http://anhonestclimatedebate.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/al-gore-in-ground-hot-day/
This reminds me of the 1984 film, The Razor’s Edge, where Larry Darrell (Bill Murray) goes to Tibet to find the ultimate truth. The monk sends him up in the mountains with his books, where he finds that the ultimate truth is that the books make valuable heat when burnt.
AGW – All Gone – Whoof! (in a puff of smoke). Don’t we wish.
Just releasing that hot air.
South America has beem like this for at least a year
http://wxmaps.org/pix/temp8.html check it yourselves
For those that say it is hotter in Australia, think again.
We have record flooding in the north (yes it’s the wet season, but flooding like this is unprecedented), we have just had a December 1C cooler than the average, and so far in January there has been widespread cloud cover and generally cooler weather all over the eastern states except for a couple of days where it was warm but still didn’t go over 30C.
This weather reminds me of the early 80’s where we have cool, very cool weather and heaps of rain for about 6 years straight.
Benson in Oxfordshire is a good Met Office temperature site and did drop to -11.6C at 00hrs before warmer air and a touch of snow arrived from the north. (about -9C here)
(not a GISS site nor is the dataset public)
This is the Stevenson screen 51.620266° -1.098691°
Choose whatever you use http://maps.google.com/ etc.
Benson would have been classic RAF base layout with the met enclosure by the station ident and control tower, a poor location when buildings, aprons and runways are changed. This site would have been automated and moved… probably lowering apparent temperatures.
Whereas Waddington is a primary and GISS
53.175364° -0.523324°
(http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_data/
select RAW (show split datasets admitted to) and type in waddington)
I hope their bandwidth will stand it, here is aerial photo of Waddington in 1945, a fascinating comparison.
http://www.467463raafsquadrons.com/L02Pgs/history/Waddington1945.jpg
The control tower and ident is visible, possibly the met enclosure, so it has moved at least once.
For good manners here is their home page
467 463 RAAF SQUADRONS HISTORY
http://www.467463raafsquadrons.com/
FIX – There have been localised inland instances of over 30, but not in Melbourne and to have no days over 30 in Melbourne in January over a period of 8 days is strange.
You can argue against an idea until you are blue in the face but the holders of it will be unmoved. But, once the idea is subjected to ridicule by satirists , then it is finished!
Bill Marsh – I can see yours points but it depends on what starting point you frame this situation.
The ‘goading’ of Russia by the United States began with the fall of the berlin wall and it hasn’t stopped since. America’s imperalism looks a lot more vivid to us Europeans (made all the more so with this Gas row) than it does from across the Atlantic. We are in the frontline now and opinions will change if this situation continues. Europe may start to look away from America out of practical needs. Who knows, a little more balance in power between the 2 might give us the breathing space this world needs at the moment.
All the best
Looks like a typical example of dangerous CO2 emission to me.
I live about an hours drive out of Melbourne and am still using my comforter at night. Took the accompanying blanket off for one night then had to put it back again when it plummeted down to about 38F (last week). I don’t call that warm. Nights here are usually very cold and for the 8 years I’ve been living here there may have been 3 times that I did not need a comforter at night. In December, many people were complaining they still needed to put the heater on because it was so cold. I know I did. Days may be warm, but from 5 in the afternoon onwards, cool sets in. As I’m from NY, I really miss sitting out on the porch at night and enjoying the warm nighttime air, waiting to catch a cool breeze. Admittedly, hot, humid, 90+ nights in NY were terrible.
And not all Australians are brainwashed into believing AGW. There’s a blog run by Andrew Bolt of the Herald Sun (I don’t know why his blog wasn’t nominated for the Weblog Awards, he’s hugely popular) and the most poular posts are anti AGW. There are many links to this blog from his site.
Some anecdotal cold weather news: In Hungary the temperature is expected to hit 20 below zero next weekend.
According to a seasonal forecast, the monthly mean for January will be well below the long-term average, and it seems that we don’t have any chance for a mild February and/or March. http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/people/wwang/cfs_fcst/images/euT2mMon.gif
Depsite of the cold weather, AGW propaganda keep going in my country. Today the Ministry of Environment has placed several ice sculptures of polar bears, penguins, african elephants and other ‘endangered animals’ in Budapest to warn the citizens for the importance of combating climate change.
Here is a drowning polar bear, and some ‘advice to mitigate global warming’ in the background: href=”http://www.fntudosito.hu/upload/2898/pics/2722/P1070998.JPG_small.jpg”>http://www.fntudosito.hu/upload/2898/pics/2722/P1070998.JPG_small.jpg
At Culdrose, near Helston in south-west Cornwall, the temperature dropped to -7.8C. It was the second coldest night on record and the chilliest since January 1987.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jan/07/freezing-weather-britain
As far as humans and air temperature are concerned, I think that a cold winter is more acceptable to them than a cold summer. It will be interesting to see how next summer in the northern hemisphere will be.