From the “weather is not climate” department, we have this unusual event in the south of France, in the French Rivera, from Yahoo news:
People are seen on the beach covered by snow in Nice, southeastern France, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009. Temperature is 3 degrees celcius (37,2 Farenheit).
The above report is only short term, 8 years according tot he website, I’m writing this entry froma Starbucks while traveling so perhaps our readers can find a longer term snow record for Nice, France.
Snow on the French Riviera????
I am an American Expat living in Antibes (Nice) France. I live 5 blocks from the beach, and 3 blocks from Port Vabaun, the 2nd largest yacht port in the world. I thought living here, I would escape the ice and snow of my native Cincinnati, Ohio. Boy was I wrong!!!
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John A -my wife spent some time in Nice back in the 70’s-during a Mistral
event-not good when you and your ex were trying to get the heater going in a rented
VW Westphalia…
SNOWING ON GERALDO RIVIERA?
Naw, that’s just mustache dandruff.
This is all I can find for current conditions, and forcast.
http://riviera.angloinfo.com/weather/
“0°C
(32°F)
Partly Cloudy
Feels like -6°C (21°F)”
It will be interesting to see the MSM start crawling out of the woodwork now that the summit is over and the cat is out of the bag. Whilst the bloggers on the DT have been having a field day, there have been no main articles on the AGW debate, – until now. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/matthewd_ancona/6845870/Copenhagen-was-the-MPs-expenses-scandal-writ-large.html
It will be interesting to see how many of them now start to play catchup and change their tune. Brown, like Blair before him, abandoned the UK when he realised his domestic policies had failed, and he has now failed to save the world. (but gave away a lot of our money while trying). So, nice that its snowing in Nice, but I’d rather it rained on the politicians parade.
1000 easy. A Piece of Ice-cake.
Anthony you got a tiger by the tail here !
Impressive !
DaveE (16:56:33) :
u.k.(us) (15:27:21) :
In fact, that appears to be the color of some of the beaches.
http://www.transitionsabroad.com/publications/magazine/0405/beach_in_nice_france.jpg
So maybe it isn’t so, though from the forcast I saw it’s a bit chilly, though not uber-cold.
According to Newsbusters.org, one William Connolley appears to have gone to great lengths to remove many inconvenient facts from the Wikipedia that might cast doubt on the anthropogenic global warming theory.
According to the article by Mathew Sheffield on Dec 19, 2009, Mr. Connolley has rewritten articles on global warming, the greenhouse effect, instrumental temperature records, the urban heat island effect, and erased material on the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period. “All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles.”
History and science appear to be changing before our eyes.
K. Bray (17:51:59) :
1000 easy. A Piece of Ice-cake.
Anthony you got a tiger by the tail here !
Impressive !
Sorry, posted to the wrong thread…..
Still IMPRESSIVE !
DaveE (16:56:33) :
u.k.(us) (15:27:21) :
something wrong with the picture, i live in chicago and know what snowfall looks like and this ain’t it.
why no snow on the sand banks, i know they are in the sun.
why no snow in the shaded pockets of the near sand bank.
just dont look right.
There is a lot of white sand in the Med. overnight snow would settle there better there than on the darker areas in the photo.
DaveE.
o.k. i guess it is snow. here’s a better picture (that actually looks like snow). http://www.daylife.com/photo/0daL8td0mWe1B
but it sure is rotten snow!! 🙂
With any luck many of the thousands of passengers stuck in four trains in the Channel Tunnel by the most “extreme weather” for eight years will have been delegates making their way home from Copenhagen.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/eurostar/6844320/Eurostar-pledges-inquiry-into-hellish-ordeal-of-cold-weather-passengers.html
“The ports of Dover and Calais have also been closed due to the extreme weather conditions and Kent Police issued an urgent warning for drivers to stay away from the Folkestone and Dover areas of the M20.
A cold weather front has caused major problems in parts of the UK in the last couple of days and further snow is forecast.
Snow covered roads, rails and runways, causing travel chaos for thousands of people at the beginning of the seasonal getaway.
The UK’s second-busiest airport – Gatwick in West Sussex – was shut for more than seven hours with scores of flight delays and cancellations, while there were no early-morning flights at Luton airport in Bedfordshire. ”
Severe weather leads to Europe being cut off.
Does anyone know what’s going on in the land down under?
How is their summer progressing?
Forget France, what about America?
The East Cost is shut down.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/storms/winter/2009-12-18-snow-flooding_N.htm
And here in Cent., FL, tonight’s forcast is: “Temperatures are expected to drop below freezing Sunday night in Citrus, Hernando, Pasco, and northern Polk Counties”
I’m going to vote on how a candidate sees the issues. We need legislators who know the truth on this issue we all are so concerned about. This is desperately needed from us. If power plants and refineries are not being built, our capacity is waning out from under us, and eventually, rates will skyrocket. We could see rolling blackouts like CA had. Here in WA, a developer is proposing a fairly expensive solar farm (undoubtedly heavily subsidized) and I fear, will probably yield far less than capacity because we get so little sun. Well, Environmentalists are already lining up against him, claiming catastrophic damage to nearby streams, loss of wildlife, etc. This solar farm will require 900 acres to produce a quoted 73 Megawatts (and a probable 10-30MW) A coal fired plant consumes only 300 acres, and typically produces ~300 MW. So, possibly a 10 to 30 fold advantage on 1/3 the acreage of forest.
Snow on the French Riviera happens from time to time, although not every year. I assume one year out of two on the average in 1990s&2000s decades, including several time heavily enough for disrupting for hours the motorway traffic. I remember it since I was working on traffic data in 1990s.
XD, Paris.
… in this chapter “weather is not climate” I can mention that it seems to me that recent years have brought snow in Paris more often than in 1990s. I have not checked it out from meteo DBs ; it is just a personnal memory glimpse.
KenS (18:22:56) :
“Does anyone know what’s going on in the land down under?
How is their summer progressing?”
What summer?
http://globalfreeze.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/australia-a-snowy-dusting-in-victorias-summer/
I wonder if the Riviera has signs that say, “Caution, beaches freeze before roads.”?
Ken S
I am in Tasmania,and we have had a strange spring and onset of summer so far.We have had a couple of hot days,with cool,cloudy days most of the time.Cold nights too.The rest of Australia seems to have had a few days of high temperaturest,then cooler temps in repeated pattern..I have noticed a lot of cloud cover that immediately drops the temperature,that’s just here in Launceston (northern Tasmania)though.
Amazing. UK climate scientist and Green Party activist, William Connolley of Realclimate.org, is Wikipedia’s climate doctor. The green doctor single-handedly rewrote 5,428 wiki climate articles starting in 2003. Check it out:
http://www.nationalpost.com/m/blog.html?b=fullcomment&e=lawrence-solomon-wikipedia-s-climate-doctor&s=Opinion
Where do these crooked scientist come from?
Mr Lynn (16:54:38)
Thanks for those links.
KenS (18:22:56) :
Does anyone know what’s going on in the land down under?
How is their summer progressing?
Downunder we do, yes.
We’ve had some warmish days in Sydney, but overall wet and a bit cool for this time of year, about 1C below the normal avg I would guess from the weather.com forecasts and records. The pool is not as warm as I’d like yet….
Adelaide have had some hot days, I hear. When I’ve been in North Queensland in the tropics over the last few months it’s been wet and about average, I’d say, perhaps a bit cool (as my mate says “you would not want to spend more than an our or too outside without a shirt at night” – obvioulsy ‘cool’ is relative).
>u.k.(us) (15:27:21) :
>something wrong with the picture, i live in chicago and know what snowfall >looks like and this ain’t it.
>why no snow on the sand banks, i know they are in the sun.
>why no snow in the shaded pockets of the near sand bank.
>just dont look right.
The ‘beach’ at Nice is actually made of small rocks. It’s not sand at all, more like river pebbles.
The ‘sandbanks’ you can see are actually painted concrete and/or rock walls. Because the whole beach faces due south in Nice, these concrete walls would have warmed up considerably with any type of sunlight and melted any snow. I guess the rocky beach doesn’t get as hot.
Now maybe we’ll hear fewer claims that “It’s woesw than we thought”.
If I hear that term again I’ll have to bitch slap someone.
KenS
I’m at 27 deg S Latitude on the East Coast of Australia, and I can tell you it’s been a hot, dry summer for me so far. But then, we get one of two types of summer here in the sub-tropics – either warm and wet, or hot and dry. El Nino calls the shots. 2 years ago it was a terribly wet summer with few fine days. This year, nice and sunny but not much rain. Nothing untoward though – no 40 degree (C) days or anything like that.
But then, that’s exactly how I remember it as a kid as well. Some years the lawn would be as crispy as breakfast cereal. Other years it would grow so much you’d have to mow twice a week. Every year it was hot enough to swim in the pool at night time. Still is. You can keep your snow.
KenS (18:22:56) :
Does anyone know what’s going on in the land down under?
How is their summer progressing?
Yay! I was just about to mention that.
I couldn’t find the average temps from the Aus BOM website, but it doesn’t take a Sherlock to figure out that the December, 2009 in Sydney has so far been ‘coolish’ and is predicted to remain so for the next week.
Mapou (19:20:34) :
Wow! That National Post article is definitely worth a post on WUWT.
I just checked William Connolley’s wiki page. The picture clearly shows an unrepentant and determined William Connolley running away from the cameras after stealing a little kid’s teddybear in his backpack somewhere in Lescun between 2000-2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Connolley
From BoM data : Sydney – Observatory Hill
Dec 09 to 19th Mean Min 18.6 Long Term Mean Min 17.5
Dec 09 to 19th Mean Max 25.8 Long Term Mean Max 25.2
Forecast daily max for the coming week vary from 22 to 29.
Not as cool as you imagine.
Look here:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/200912/html/IDCJDW2124.200912.shtml