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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Not sure if it has been mentioned here, in Australian MSM there are reports that Washington DC has experienced it’s worst ever snow fall, and Euro Tunnel trains stuck in under the English channel.
Maybe Climategate is working after all.
December 20th, 2009, we’re well in to summer, today however, inner-west is ~24c. Not sure how this one will be spun into the warmest December ever, and warmest decade.
The BBC still cannot understand the incongruity of reporting the end of the Global Warming conference, followed swiftly by blizzards in eastern USA and most of western Europe. It was -14 and blowing at 25mph in Brussels this morning, but not a single quip or smirk from the BBC.
You couldn’t make it up.
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IPCC 2007 – VIRTUALLY CERTAIN for the 21st Century – warmer and fewer cold days and nights, reduced disruption to transport due to snow and ice, reduced energy demand from heating
Record snow buries US cities
Valdez Alaska: the snow was piled 5 feet, 8 inches deep
Nice – French Riviera – first ever snowfall in ….. years – not so nice
England – 5 trains stuck in Chunnel then 1 breaks down in Kent – due to the “extreme cold”
Record snowfall totals were reported Saturday afternoon at Washington Dulles and Reagan National airports — and snow was still falling. Accumulation at Dulles reached 16 inches, breaking the old record of 10.6 inches set December, 12, 1964; 13.3 inches was reported at Reagan. The old record there was 11.5 inches set December 17, 1932.
What was Washington’s record snowfall in 1932? 30 cms
What is Washington’s snowfall forecast by dawn Sunday? 61 cmz
That record isnt going to be broken, its going to be OBLITERATED
13th December – Environment Canada recorded a frigid -46.1 C, or -58.4 with wind chill, at the Edmonton International Airport at 5 a.m., Environment Canada meteorologist Pierre Lessard said.
The old record of -36.1 C was set last year, he said. “To break a temperature by 10 degrees is very exceptional,”
Snow causes travel chaos in Europe from Bucharest to Britain
IPCC 2007 – VIRTUALLY CERTAIN for the 21st Century – warmer and fewer cold days and nights, reduced disruption to transport due to snow and ice, reduced energy demand from heating
Pictures of the White Whitehouse anyone – with a caption contest
Hi, it seems a an all-time low (FOR DECEMBER, 19th) has been reached in Langres this night : -16°C (3° F).
Link :
http://www.meteociel.fr/temps-reel/obs_villes.php?code2=7283&jour2=19&mois2=11&annee2=2009&envoyer=OK
Call me an absolute nutjob…
But I sure am hoping we see one helluva freezing cold 2010.
Just to stick it to ’em.
Climate gawds, please make us all freeze our butts off !
Sherlock (21:10:40) :
Thanks, Sherlock! Honestly, I never cared about looking for long term December average temps for Sydney in the BOM website until three days ago, and I didn’t realise that the ‘weather’ information I was looking for was tucked under ‘climate’ until today.
Still, I was trying to compare this December’s temperatures with the last ten years or so that I’ve lived in Sydney, just several Kms to the west of the Sydney Observatory. The long term temperature averages you’ve provided seem to cover the years between 1861-2000. Have you got a BOM page that shows December temperature averages since 2000?
Hi sHx,
the long term averages I provided cover 1859 to 2009. I can’t find anywhere that shows 2000 to 2009 averages, although you can select 30 year averages as per the drop down menu.
Looky here :
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_066062.shtml
If you go to the page I posted earlier and scroll down you can go back 14 months so you will get Dec 08. I’ll keep looking though!!!!
This is worth a posting on its own hahahah
[ snip- we don’t post the Hitler parody video here – for the same reason we don’t want people called “deniers” – we don’t need this sort of association – Anthony]
Could someone explain to me how the average temperatures are calculated for the ClimateZone table linked in the header?
Scary,
“Eurostar passenger trains will remain suspended on Sunday because of concerns about the wintry weather.
More than 2,000 people were trapped in the Channel Tunnel for up to 16 hours after condensation caused a series of electrical failures on Friday night. ”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8422978.stm
point taken
I spent the winter of 1984 on a yacht in Port Vauban, Antibes and not only did it snow but most of the surface water in the port froze. Snow also happens on rare occasions in Palma Majorca, which like Nice is protected to the North by mountains.
A lesson?:
http://muttscomics.com/art/images/daily/120609.gif
We do have snow on the adriatic cost and the temperatures below 10°C!!! This Al Gore really a little exaggerates bringing such a cold to Europe!
KenS (18:22:56) :
In southern NZ early Spring (August) was great. Since then it has been cold in the main with a great deal of wind. Much of Spring was grey but dry, December has seen very strong winds, some rain but only a few warm days. For the East Coast, pretty much standard El Nino. As a guide – no weekend barbeques and only a couple of days fishing. The Dunedin Santa parade was rained off and today we had hail (again) and a gale force southerly. I’ve needed the heat pump virtually every evening.
However, we are promised a great improvement later in the week.
Happy Christmas, everyone.
A couple of weeks ago there were people swimming in the sea off Antibes, but the last week or so has seen the temperatures here on the (Over)Côte d’Azur drop significantly.
However the microclimates mean that where I live we haven’t seen any snow just a frost in the mornings.
Most winters we get a few days like this, but not very many. This year we seem to be having rather more.
Pamela Gray (16:47:28) :
“By the way, I wonder what the folks on the beach are thinking? I think the guy in the surf is taking a leak. …”
Best time to go there is late spring and early autumn. Live webcam here to check for snow or else.
http://pv.viewsurf.com/?id=40
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fraise/4196673705/
Apparently first snow in Nice since 2005…
On Sky News this morning (Sunday) Henry Kelly was reviewing the papers, and he doesn’t believe in the global warming myth, either, and gave Christopher Booker’s article in the Sunday Telegraph good coverage.
BBC Breakfast, however, was interviewing someone about Copenhagen, and never even mentioned the alternative thinking – they never do. Also, that awful leftie Kevin Maguire was reviewing the papers.
Why is the British media so wrapped up with socialism, and truth-hiding? It’s incredible, considering the air-time given to the unflappable, calm and informative Lord Monckton in Canada? All the British media can do is wheel out the same panicky alarmist gloom mongers, who are hell bent on crushing sceptics, without saying why.
After all that’s happened, can’t some enterprising member of the public (or industry) take out some sort of class action against the government (and its BBC arm) for rushing headlong into cash-wasting policies on a whim, because they’ve been misinformed and choose to take the opposite action to that dictated by common sense?
How long do we have to sit, powerless, and take this stuff – watching our politicos destroying us against our express wishes?
I live in SW France about 50km from the bay of biscay (Gascoigne) for us. We have had cold and lately snow for about a week with temps down to -9°C and not above freezing for 3 days. My fioul oil normally last me 9 months. I filled the cuve 1 month ago and the fill before that was last january. The current fill is already half gone.
AND unlike the rest of you our enlightened president (cue marsieille) has imposed a €17 /tonne carbon tax from Jan 1 2010.
My very old neighbours (famillies have been here for 7 generations) tell me that it is rare for us to have very cold weather before xmas although I remeber that 2002 Dec was cold +4°C. Average here is +10 – +12. So we have been going at 10°C below normal for several days.
here in bern, switzerland, was -14C last night. and it is not even winter yet.
AdderW,
I got you there for two minutes, didn’t I?
FD
AdderW (16:25:32) :
AdderW (16:23:34)
Frederick Davies (15:27:04) :
AP-Seychelles bans Al Gore from islands
You got a link to that please?
Never mind, move along…. 🙂
Definitely once and possibly twice there was sufficient snow in Nice in the 1980s to go cross-country ski-ing in the palm trees.
Can’t remember the exact years but I suspect 1984/5 was one year – incredibly cold for about 5 weeks from pre-Christmas toward end of January.
I remember seeing the pictures in the UK Press at the time.
a lot of cold noise falling outside today