No it’s not a time warp photo of Dicken’s time, it’s from the NASA MODIS satellite imager this week. This is like one of those “spot the cow in this photo” images, looking for the UK in a sea of white.
It must be having quite an impact in the UK. According to UK resident and WUWT commenter “borderer”:
Every single newspaper in the UK has published the following satellite image of the UK today – it shows the entire country in glowing white – snow and ice now appears the entire British Isles from John O’ Groats at the Northern tip of Scotland – to Landsend in Cornwall.
Despite this – and we are now in our 25th day of sub zero temperatures – the MET Office put up a spokesman on Newsnight last evening claiming that their forecast for a ‘very mild winter’ had ‘only been a probability!!
In other news, the Met Head gets paid extra even for botched forecasting. Remember the “BBQ summer” forecast?
“Mr. Hirst, you predicted a barbeque summer for 2009 – we don’t remember that – and a mild winter for this winter, which hasn’t happened. Why did you get a massive performance related bonus?“
h/t to Kate at SDA
If you look at this larger image you can see that Northern Ireland does indeed have snow!
You can see the snow covered ground through the breaks in the clouds easier in the large image linked above.
umm, ya, global warming, right
War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, snow is global warming.
Luboš Motl (09:38:13) :
There isn’t any green vegetation in the GISS adjusted photo I was just sent. It’s just all sand with polar bear skeletons and empty wallets laying about.
😉
Peter Hearnden (09:38:42) :
where’s the heat Peter?
climate is cooling
do you think anyone is really listening to you global warming folk?
it must be awfully cold under the bridge for the trolls.
fingers too numb to type
Looks like dry ice to me 😉
Jordan (09:44:21) :
Livestock being frozen to death in their thousands
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Could or are?
“The fact is that we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.”
Hahahahahahaha.
Warmer Is Better. Go outside and think about it.
The greatest revelation from these photos are the distinct UHI effects and how surprisingly local they are. One can clearly see a break between Leeds and Bradford even though there is little clear land between them. It was intriguing looking through the greyer spots to locate quite small towns, showing that virtually any urban Met. station is affected by UHI. How anyone could attempt to compensate for this is beyond my comprehension.
Maybe the Thames will freeze. An ice fair on the frozen Thames would just be gobsmackingly awesome.
Stephen Wilde,
Very interesting model, but I have some questions:
“The SABER satellite results appear to show that the rate of loss of energy to space is greater when the sun is active and less when the sun is less active.”
If the rate of loss of energy to space is less under an active sun, does that imply a global warming? If so, how do you reconcile that with observations that a quieter sun leads to cooling? Or are you saying that only applies to the polar lattitudes and that mid lattitudes will be cooling?
Finally, is this your own model or someone elses?
We are stuck in southern Spain because our flight on Wedneday was cancelled due to Newcastle airport being closed. Hopefully we will be able to fly tomorrow.
The reason that Newcastle airport was closed? The Met Office propoganda division (a department that Goebells would have been proud of) informed us that our winter would be mild and wet. During recession aiport and local council budgets have to be carefully managed so why buy salt, grit and expensive snow clearing equipment if it is not necessary?
I am sure that many people in the UK had a miserable summer holiday because they booked it on the basis of the “barbecue summer” the Met Office propogandists promised us. Now we are having a miserable winter as well!
On the Met Office website they are telling us that although the UK is cold other parts of the world are experiencing the effects of global warming. Well it isn’t the case in southern Spain. The weather has changed from stormy and wet with significantly higher rainfall than normal to very cold. The temperature yesterday morning was 5 deg C.
I do not believe anything the Met Office says any more. When supposed eminent scientists state that “climate change denial should be made a criminal offence” common sense tells me that something is wrong somewhere. Didn’t they say similar things about witchcraft 400 years ago?
I can second the axing of flights to and from Heathrow yesterday. I just got home (to Perth) but not via London as initially intended. Friday morning I went to the BA counter in Barcelona Airport only to be told nothing was coming in or out of London (any airport).
Luckily I got a direct flight from Barcelona to Singapore with Singapore Airlines and then connected with my previously booked Qantas flight. Of course my bag is styill in Singapore… I am told that will reach me tomorrow 🙂
Still snowing in Andorra according to my folks.
Having just posted a comment on this excellent blog, the top item on recent news was an item from Directgov. I have copied and pasted some of the text below to demonstrate how the powers that be treat us like idiots with this moronic, patronising rubbish. My blood pressure must be through the roof!
With temperatures so low, to keep safe and warm the Department of Health recommends you:
• keep curtains drawn and doors closed to block out draughts
• have regular hot drinks and at least one hot meal a day if possible – eating regularly helps keep energy levels up during winter
• wear several light layers of warm clothes (rather than one chunky layer)
• keep as active as possible
• wrap up warm if you do need to go outside
You should also keep your home at the recommended temperature of 18 to 21 degrees Celsius (64 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit).
If you can’t heat all the rooms you use, heat the living room during the day and the bedroom just before you go to bed.
Follow the links below for more advice about keeping warm and healthy during cold weather
@Andrew Harding
“… The weather has changed from stormy and wet with significantly higher rainfall than normal to very cold. The temperature yesterday morning was 5 deg C.
I do not believe anything the Met Office says any more…”
The Met Office couldn’t care less. Just so long as you keep paying your taxes to keep them in the vast sums of money that they are accustomed to.
May I suggest that you CONTACT YOUR MP to complain about this waste of your taxpayers’ money? This is a useful website – http://www.writetothem.com/
If people just complain on WUWT nothing will change…..
That’s a truely stunning image. When I lived in the UK back in the 1970’s, I lived nearish London, and directly below the major flight paths for London airports, as well as Biggin Hill (Hardly used then). I always used to wonder how the ground would look from an aircraft at that altitude when I watched plane crisscross the sky leaving condtrails. I actually got to experience that in 2003, not over the UK, but on my way to JFK airport from LAX. I was sat just behind the wings (100 passengers on a 747 400 Longreach??? I had a whole row of sets to myself) and could see condtrails forming behind the engines as I looked backwards out of the window. Down below looked cold, like in this image and the one posted before over the US, and sure enough it was. Two feet of snow fell my first night in New York, ice everywhere. Up the Empire State building was even colder. Then down on the gound I fell A over T in a snow pile outside Macy’s on 5th Ave. Covered from head to foot in snow, I did receive an odd look from the security gaurd when I asked him, in well spoken English, where the perfume counter was.
But what struck me, as I rode in from Long Island into Penn St, was that all the points in the trackwork had burning oil baths under each of the points. Shame this technology isn’t installed in British railways (Given that we practically invented it anyway).
MET office Deja Vu:
http://blackswhitewash.com/2010/01/09/met-office-deja-vu/
But it’s a warm snow 😉
Reply: I think you mean “It’s a dry snow”. ~ctm
“kadaka (15:19:00) :
On the neighborhood level, one leg of the incoming high-voltage three phase is used to provide the single phase to individual houses, which may be split (center-tapped winding) for two hot legs and a neutral. To work backwards, with 160V incoming, times 1.732 yields 277V. It is expected in the UK to be 240V from hot to neutral, 480V between hots.”
You wanted to say 416V between hots.
Another difference is that in the USA 220V is from hot to hot and at 60 Hz (50Hz in Europe). Used to create problems with early VCR. And might be a problem with safety, when one uses european 230V-appliances on US 220V.
Further to what Dodgy Geezer says wrt complaining to MPs’ the MPs’ are actually part of the problem. Our government together with all world governments has a vested interest in man-made climate change. Why? So they can tax us more with the justification that they are protecting the planet and most people will pay the increased taxes without complaining because it assuages their collectivve guilty consciences for driving their car or taking a non-essential flight.
It needs more Climategates to happen and more scientists to come forward with alternative views.
“Russtovich (16:56:16) :
TJA (13:37:00) :
“…and, as Kevin mentioned, Edmonton suffered thru -40C”
Good thing it wasn’t -40F 😉
LOL, good one TJA. :)”
So a teacher explaining an electronic calculator would first ask his pupils to change 40°C into °F, and then change 1Ǻ into inches next.
” Allan M (14:43:31) :
‘Alexej Buergin (10:03:03) :
It would be easier for the rest of us if the UK had a logical national flag, but Wales is not part of the Union Jack.’
Quite logical! England and Scotland are countries; Wales is a principality.
The Prince of Wales, the Right Charlie, the one who has a servant to squeeze his toothpaste, is the culprit there.”
The real reason is of course that in 1801 Wales was considered to be a part of England.
And in 1805 it still was England that „expects that every man will do his duty“.
But today it would be logical to add a little dragon to the Union Jack.
And in other news …
On P. FP19, of Jan. 9 edition of Canada’s National Post one finds the following:
New Univeristy of Waterloo study finds CFCs, not CO2, to be the cause of recent global warming The ozone hole did it
http://digital.nationalpost.com/epaper/showlink.aspx?bookmarkid=XURZQG1RDGL6
“Climate change is real and manmade, explains University of Waterloo professor Qin-Bin Lu, author of a new study published this week in the peer-reviewed journal, Physics Reports.
“The man-made cause of global warming is not CO2 and the international treaty that saved the planet is not the Kyoto Protocol. Rather, says Dr. Lu, the true cause of global warming has been CFCs, or chlorofluorocarbons, a class of chemicals that was once widely used in aerosol cans and refrigeration. As CFC use soared in the decades following World War II, he explains, the globe started warming dramatically. The world stopped warming dramatically when government regulations began to phase out CFCs, an event that culminated in the western world in 2000. Almost immediately afterward, in 2002, the world began to cool as CFCs started to diminish in our atmosphere.
“The heroes in this tale are environmentalists and world leaders such as U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who got together to sign the Montreal Protocol of 1987. This protocol was designed to stop the Ozone Hole from developing above the Antarctic by ridding the planet of ozone-destroying CFCs. Little did either the environmentalists or the world leaders recognize at the time, explains Professor Lu, that their actions would also eliminate the threat to the planet of global warming.
[…]
Dr Lu’s study is now published and the reviews he has received to date have been favourable but he may find himself writing a postscript in three year’s time. Like hundreds of other scientists around the world, Dr. Lu may have unwittingly relied on invalid data for a portion of his study. His real-time satellite and balloon data, which shows CO2 does not cause climate change, is not in dispute. Not so for the historical temperature data, on which he based his estimates of how much global cooling we face as Earth’s temperatures return to their historic pre-CFC levels. “My temperature data comes from the UK – the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University,” he reveals when questioned.
[…]
And in same edition, P. A14 has a pictures and numbers spread of “Severe Winter Weather”
http://digital.nationalpost.com/epaper/showlink.aspx?bookmarkid=5ZIJ9A0H3PH8
7 pics in all from various points around the globe. All except 1 show snow, ice etc. The exception is … Israel … Caption is “29 C Expected temperature in southern Israel. Unseasonally warm weather has Israelis heading to the beach”.
I can well imagine the next round of Alarmist “arguments”. No doubt it will be something along the lines of …
“No, no, no! All those pictures are just weather events. Except the one of ‘the Zionist entity’ which, thanks to a Mossad plot, has stolen all the warming (ooops ‘climate change’) from the rest of the world. IPCC Chair insists the world must act *now* because all those traders who were ‘hoping to take advantage of climate change’ counted a lot of carbon chicks before they were hatched!”
http://hro001.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/traders-counted-carbon-chicks-before-they-were-hatched/
Richard C (00:31:25) :
The greatest revelation from these photos are the distinct UHI effects and how surprisingly local they are. One can clearly see a break between Leeds and Bradford even though there is little clear land between them.
To some extent this greying of cities in the image will be an artifact of shadows and roof angles etc.