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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How about “the hockey minimum”?
I’ve followed this graph all year and the blue line was never below the dotted line in October, why has it changed?
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_timeseries.png
“” Annabelle (08:14:37) :
Several people have pointed out that Australia is experiencing hot summer weather at the moment. For what it’s worth, in my part of South Africa it has been cooler than usual for the time of year – at least that’s how it has felt. Those who love our hot summers have been complaining. “”
Well Annabelle, those Australians tend to experience all kinds of weird things; after all they are on the crusty side of the pizza; but in this case there is a reason; looking at my calendar I see that it is the right time of the year for Australia to have hot summer weather; so don’t fret; this is what happens every year down there; it used to happen in New Zealand at the same time, but Australia is closer to the edge of the pizza where it tends to curl up and gett hotter than New Zealand.
So don’t worry before we know it, the hot summers will come back topside so we can set fire to California again.
I don’t think we’ve had a hot summer. We’ve definitely had a wet summer so far as it seems I’m always behind the lawn mower.
It will be interesting to see if we get an actual wet season here in the northern rivers.
as for Melbourne weather – I was there through a january in 2002 and I froze one day and cooked the next. 🙂
Classic.
Thanks, Anthony,
I needed that. *click* *save as* *email to*
It’s just too good to keep. It’s gotta go viral.
“I’ve followed this graph all year and the blue line was never below the dotted line in October, why has it changed?”
They discovered an error in their data some time back and had to go back and fix it.
Because the daily extent chart now shows the winter of 2006 to 2007 (dashed green line) not 2007 to 2008. NSIDC say that the graph will continue to show 2007, which went on to reach the lowest summer minimum in the satellite record.
This is the chart that you recall:
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg311/johnnyrook1/SeaiceextentDecember202008NSIDC.png
Gore claims victory over global warming, based on cooling trend!
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i45991
Not sure who is claiming it is hot in Australia. Here in Adelaide they are telling us it wont hit 35 deg until later this month and all the cafes down the Bay are complaining in the paper that they are losing money since it is too cool for people to sit outside at 11:30 at night like they normally do.
To add to the anecdotal evidence from Australia. I’m in the mountains west of Sydney, typically about 5C less than Sydney. Definitely cooler than the average of the last 15 years, just a few hot days. We’ve enjoyed a wood fire several times in the few weeks before and after Christmas, most unusual. (No, we aren’t in danger of freezing to death, we just like fires and have plenty of fuel so light a fire whenever it’s cool enough to enjoy.)
I think these anecdotal reports are very valuable for the general perception of watt’s actually up, of course along with Anthony’s more technical analyses. I remember well when I first saw the hockey stick I was seriously alarmed. But then I started thinking, why haven’t I noticed? This is meant to be global, where I am is on the globe, so why hasn’t it happened here? I checked out the historic data for places I know, just in case my personal temperature detectors had collapsed. Nothing of any significance. Maybe a slight increase in average, depending on where you start, but if so about the change I experience between about 7am and 7.10am most days.
From different comments on this site that I’ve read today: it’s colder in Begium, UK, Eastern Europe, various part of the US and Canada, South Africa and Melbourne as well as where I am. Someone has to do some serious work to persuade me that all these observations are all anomalous and that the secret statistical witchcraft (weighted average mean with secret weights and secret data sampling and secret “adjustments”) is anything but fraud.
Great work WUWT.
I’ll believe in AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) on the same day that one of its proponents explains to me why the polar ice caps on MARS have been shrinking for the last 20 years or so and why the same thing happening here on Earth is somehow “different.”
I live in Melbourne and there certainly seems to be a disconnect between the headlines and reality. The BOM predicted a ‘long hot summer’ at the start of the spring and so far it has been cold. We’ve even had the heating on in January for the first time since we moved here 5 years ago.
Compare this article yesterday from The Australian…
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24881875-11949,00.html
…with todays high temperatures on the BOM website
http://www.bom.gov.au/
Adelaide 23.8 C
Canberra 26.7
Melbourne 19.8 C
Perth 35.3C
Sydney 22.4C
Hmmmm.
Grand Minimum called the “Hockey Stick Minimum”
Cooling Period called the “GoreHansenMann Pessimum Period”
I like it. *click* *save as* *email to*
Start the satire boys and girls. That is the only way to stop AGW.
Jeff Wiita (06:18:11) :
If we are entering into a Grand Minimum, can we start calling it GoreHansen Minimum? And, if enter into another mini ice age, can we start calling in the GoreHansen Pessimum Period?
There are three things that each get a name. The sunspot minimum. The cold period. The bad effects for society from the cold (pessimum).
The sunspots ought to be called the Landscheidt Minimum because he predicted it.
I like the sound of “The AlGore Cold Period” and the “Hansen Pessimum”
The global temperature is probably on its way down, and this shift maybe cause a bit unusual waather pattern.
The current global land temperature due to satellite data is about average since 1979. But regionally we have had well populated and rich (media important?) America and Europe with cold weather anomalies and Russia/Siberia with high temperature anomaly.
Average land temperature on land since 1979 may be what you can have if the temperature is on its way down. The sea temperature I think is still the 6th warmest since 1979.
The record cold weather at many places belongs to unusual regional weather patterns, but also we have hade a temperature peak and now just can wait and see what a silent sun will bring the next couple of years. If PDO and/or AMO also switch to a cold phase we may have a cold spring/sunner and food shortage next year, as well as at least one more cold winter?
I think it will takes several years to reach a global temperature low since satellite temperature measurement started.
(The CO2 hypothesis should have been burried already because of science opposing it, e.g. the positive total feedback, among lots of other things.)
Lets go for it, E.M.Smith. I like it.
Very cold in France too ! -20°C in the north east and near Paris. Even the South is cold and snowy :
http://www.lefigaro.fr/medias/2009/01/07/ae0fe9a0-dcab-11dd-9dae-f4af976909ba.jpg
It’s time they turned off those damn great cooling fans they’ve got all over the hillsides, that CO2 thermostat is obviously broken…
If you want to know, where around the world it is cold too, look here: http://www.schmanck.de/cooling.html
Cold weather may damage winter wheat
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=a0Isx3sPPtvc&refer=australia
MG: from the Bloomberg link you provided:
Maybe not. According to ABC News article, the marijuana harvest brings more cash than corn and wheat combined.
It’s not called Global Warming anymore, it’s called Climate Change. That way we can account for any abnormality and blame it on ourselves.
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1105053/The-day-sea-froze-Temperature-plunges-MINUS-12C-forecasters-say-wont-warm-Sunday.html
Has some really nice pictures of a really cold GB…
I live in Central Australia, and we are NOT having a normal summer. It has been unusually cool here. The last two months we’ve had high temps as low as 24c nd not higher than 34c. This week it might break 38c, but that’s far better than the usual 40+ norm for this time of year. We’ve had our first real “spring” weather in many years! Last week we had snow in Tasmania. The same week they had of “winter like” temps in Victoria. Funny how the “cool” news doesn’t get out into the media….
An excellent cartoon.
Location: Townsville Queensland Australia.
Yes we are experiencing a cooler summer than normal. A quick glance at my home weather station reveals that at the time of posting it is 31C outside with 58% humidity, overcast and a little drizzle about to fall. It is also a pleasant 26.6C inside with air conditioning.
Normally it would be around 34 to 36C up to 40C but rarely over that.
We have a cyclone forming about 800klm to my north west which will bring some welcome rain and that tends to cool off the region for a day or so and then the heat and humidity go throught the roof. 38C with 90% humidty. Bliss.
We must be having a cooler than average summer because our cricketers have had a bloody awful start to the season by letting South Africa win 3 matches.