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
“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?“
The answer is:
a) it’s just weather
b) well, I’m not a qualified meterologist, so I can’t comment
c) you will find there is a distinct rising temperature trend if you take measurements from 01:00 am and then 13:30pm….
d) La-La-La-La (puts fingers in ears)…
“Veronica (08:31:33) :
I am sort of worried that this might be the reversal-in-direction-of-the-gulf-stream thing that warmists have warmed us about, as northern Canada seems to be getting our milder weather. Should I be worried?”
I think this recent weather may have more to do with the current direction of the jet stream not the gulf stream. This link might help to explain.
http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/jetstream.asp
Not Scotland, I meant Ireland!
Dang cats, swarming around because they’re restless and don’t want to go out in the fresh global warming… I’m trying to do stuff here! Shoo!
Douglas, I thought you would like this. The water equivalent measures for NE Oregon are great. And continue to trend greater every year. The ski basin snotel depth data at the end of the report for recreation purposes are different but who cares. In NE Oregon we could not give less attention to skiing than we do now. What we want to know is whether or not the snow we have has water in it. This kind of snow builds glaciers by the way. So much for being warmer with drought coming our way.
ftp://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/data/climate/basin_reports/oregon/wy2010/bapror12.txt
Veronica (08:31:33) :
I am sort of worried that this might be the reversal-in-direction-of-the-gulf-stream thing that warmists have warmed us about, as northern Canada seems to be getting our milder weather. Should I be worried?
It would appear that most of our weather we get from someone else and is mostly airborne. Winds from the East during the winter months will bring us cold weather regardless of the gulf stream. And as for how the gulf stream is doing; this image appears to show open water all the way to the Russian Coast, which would indicate that the gulf stream is still pushing warm water up into the Arctic:
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/NEWIMAGES/arctic.seaice.color.000.png
I was checking out John Daly’s reference to the Telegraph re sunspots in 2003 or so, linking sunspots to heat. But he’d forgotten to make the URL date-specific.
Instead of reaching a HEAT page, I reached this magnificent SNOW picture. Beautiful timing.
I was quite hot this summer actually… but then I live in Gravesend, which is the hottest place in the Uk… (when I say hot, I mean by British standards btw haha) On the other hand, and this has been riling me a bit:
Just because we’re having a mini ice age, doesn’t mean we should forget about the environment impact of our actions. The temperature of the Earth will naturally fluctuate, but the POINT is we shouldn’t make these changes worse, which is what will happen. It’s just that people have been so badly affected by it this year, especially the Eurostar travellers this year…
Jen.
@Alexander
“As a New Zealander living in London, I am constantly amazed at the Brits inability or unwillingness to plan for the eventuality of snow and ice on the roads, ie dual purpose tyres, tyre chains, a tow-rope, jumper leads, basic tools and some warm clothing and perhaps a sleeping bag kept in the car. In the bits of NZ where the weather can turn very hot or very cold quite quickly and fewer people around to help if one gets into trouble, one learns to prepare….”
I don’t know why you are surprised.
Britain usually has a very mild climate – no single type of weather for very long. Under those circumstances it makes no sense to prepare for extremes – you would be continually preparing for a very unlikely possibility, and wasting a lot of time, money, space in your car, etc…
If our climate was like New Zealand, we would be preparing…
Barry Foster (08:06:56) :
Can anyone else see Michael Jackson’s face in that photo, or is it just me?
And later:
Barry Foster (08:08:26) :
We’ve got more snow coming Sunday, and guess where is going to be hit hardest?
Wait for it…
East Anglia…right where the CRU is! There IS a god.
I see Jesus in the photo. Funny thing is I’m Jewish.
Enjoy it. Snowfall is a very rare and exciting event.
Can someone explain to me what sledging is? Or it it the same thing as sledding?
People in the US just don’t realise what we are up against here in England with the Met Office on the one hand, CRU at East Anglia on the other happily promoting the bogus science of anthroprogenic global warming. All of the political parties and the scientific establishment are at one in this regard ousing sickening mutual admiration.
For umpteen years now the scientists have been instructed by the politicians to spin the raw data to show ludicrous hockeystick type catastrophic temperature rise. In fact the fraudsters at CRU recieve only messages of sympathy for having had their emails hacked into by the beastly sceptics; after all the serious business of cooking the books is very time consuming and should not be subject to any distraction.
It looks so nice and white because where its not snow, its ice – compacted snow.
And it looks so nice and white because the roads – except the main ones – are not being cleared.
As for the UHI – living in one of them, I can tell you its only marginally warmer – and the roads are not cleared either. Nor are the pavements. The reason for that is that any hose owner who clears the pavement in front of his/her property is liable to litigation, should someone fall. No clearing – no liability.
Thanks to the forecast for a warm winter, councils everywhere were advised to stock up gritting material for six days.
As my compatriots have been telling above – this has been getting on for a little bit longer than six days.
But hey, its only a ‘natural variation in local weather’ – somewhere else the globe is burning up, right?
Ashford (09:24:53)
Brogdale was hotter than Gravesend.
101.3 F on 10 August 2003.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news/20072006news.shtml
I live in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, which is south west Wales. The middle pointy bit sticking out to the left. The only bit of Wales covered in cloud. Temperature at 6:00am this morning was -7C (19f). This afternoon, as it was bright and sunny, I went for a walk round the harbour and to my surprise it was frozen! The marina was a sheet of ice. Not very thick, but one very cold night and the sea surface froze. I hope we don’t get a week of this.
During the Newsnight interview when challenged about not predicting the lack of global warming over the past ten years Mr Hirst stated:
“We did…”
“If you go back we predicted a leveling off of global temperatures”
Can anyone verify this prediction because I don’t remember it?
Spot the coo is the correct Scottish term, local farmer has lost 30 sheep in the last 3 weeks despite feeding them.
I just received a message from East Anglia’s CRU. The picture you used is incorrect. The correct picture, after Michael’s trick (smart method) to hide the decline has been applied, looks like this:
http://www.mapsorama.com/maps/europe/uk/Satellite_Great_Britain-tm.jpg
Could you please, Anthony, publish errata? Thanks, Phil Jones et al. 😉
On the news in Norway today:
http://www.statoil.com/en/TechnologyInnovation/NewEnergy/RenewablePowerProduction/Offshore/SheringhamShoel/Downloads/Fact%20sheet.pdf
Grand Match off over safety fears …
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8448669.stm
“An outdoor curling tournament has been called off because the emergency services said they could not guarantee players’ safety.
The Grand Match, planned for the Lake of Menteith near Aberfoyle next week, would have been the first event of its kind for more than 30 years.
…
The last Grand Match also took place on the Lake of Menteith in 1979. The one before that was in 1963. “
Amazing what a few days of cold weather does to all those people who have denied the reality of decades of warming. Cold weather equal climate change, warm weather equals deny it….
It’s also amazing how cold it’s been given the (supposed) UHI that sceptics say plaster the UK and warm it so much – ha ha!
Barry Foster (08:08:26) :
We’ve got more snow coming Sunday, and guess where is going to be hit hardest?
Wait for it…
East Anglia…right where the CRU is! There IS a god
But it will also fall, again, on those of us who do not work for CRU, have nothing to do with Uni of East Anglia, who are in no way related to Phil Jones (so far as I am aware!) and who consider the UK Met Office a sick joke.
That makes it a pretty vengeful god!
Performance related bonuses for high level public servants are usually automatic and have nothing to do with performance.
http://wap.myfoxtampabay.com/w/main/story/8721610/
The waters in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coast have gotten so cold, sea turtles are washing ashore, paralyzed by cold they are not used to.
Veterinarians say they know the cold is to blame because the turtles don’t have any exterior injuries or wounds that would typically cause them to wash ashore.
They are not the only Florida wildlife dazed by the dropping temperatures.
Manatees are huddling in huge numbers wherever they can find warm water, and there are reports of lizards freezing and dropping out of trees.
Barry Foster (08:06:56) :
Can anyone else see Michael Jackson’s face in that photo, or is it just me?
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I don’t see the ghost of MJ but I do see the Grinch…