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
@ur momisugly Barry Foster (08:08:26) : I’ve been busy clearing Global Warming from the path today, and looking forward to more this coming weekend. I saw the following in the comments at the Daily Mail website yesterday:
“The University of East Anglia wishes to apologise for the temporary lull in global warming announcements.
This is due to our staff being unable to get into work because of the snow.”
The most amazing thing is to see the snow cover reaching the far SW. There are a few palm trees growing down there! Snow is almost unheard of in those parts.
The probability argument from the Met Office is garbage. If the UK winter turns out to be average or slightly below average then they can reasonably claim that is an acceptable error. However this winter could turn out to be cold or very cold which, using the Met Office’s original analysis, would have had a very low probability.
If we get the original numbers we can probably work out their probability estimate for current winter temperatures.
You can buy the Eskimold igloo-making kit here:
http://webstore.eskimold.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=30&osCsid=19822f434a9c66dc4c18f15d20973213
Stephen Skinner
Have a look at this grear Pathe News reel from the 1930’s when there was a US plan to divert the Gulf stream
http://www.britishpathe.com/results.php?search=guklf+stream
Tonyb
Recent News Headlines from the BBC
http://search.bbc.co.uk/search?go=homepage&Search=Search&q=cold%20weather&tab=ns&scope=all&start=1
England’s extreme cold weather is putting huge pressure on hospitals as they struggle to cope with the number of weather-related injuries.
8 Jan 2010
UK cold snap plunges to new low
Travel problems and school closures continue across the UK after temperatures plummet as low as -22.3C (-8.1F).
8 Jan 2010
Wildlife huddles down to beat the cold
Wildlife in the northern hemisphere is being forced to find new ways to keep warm, the BBC’s Penny Spiller reports.
8 Jan 2010
Cold spell causes more disruption
Another day of disruption hits Wales after the country has its coldest night
Traciatim (10:00:34) …and that map it is a BIG, BIG, lie too. I write from some of the orange areas. 1998 january temperature: 38°C., clear skies, avg rain: 0.1 mm per year, 2010 temperature: 20°C (18 degrees below 1998), totally covered skies; raining all the time.
Meanwhile, back at the fort:-
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/01/very-very-sick-joke.html
points out that (like last year) it may be bitterly cold but for the last three weeks there has been almost no wind. So the bird shredders have generated almost nothing. Typically less than 0.3% of our electricity needs.
But only today our beloved little Ed Milipede and his ridiculous Department of Energy and Climate Change issued a press release:-
http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/news/pn10_004/pn10_004.aspx
The biggest expansion in wind generation in the world – at a knock down January Sale price of £75 Billion! That will make the electricity bills buttock- clenchingly exciting when you open them!
These lunatics MUST be held personally accountable for this gargantuan waste of money, which will also see the lights go out. Perhaps permanently.
Just remember, the UK public got rightly cross as the revelations about MPs fiddling their expenses came out. The amounts involved were chicken feed compared to the subsidy paid to each and every wind turbine.
OK, there is a General Election in a few weeks time.
There we have a good choice.
Vote Red (Labour) and get Green
Vote Yellow (Lib-Dem) and get Green
Vote Blue (Tory) and get Green.
They all vie with each other to prove that they are greener than the next party.
And just remember that, when the “Climate Change Bill” was approved on Tuesday 29 October 2008, making it UK law that “the net UK carbon account for the year 2050 is at least 80% lower than the 1990 baseline”, undoubtedly the most expensive legislation ever passed by the House of Commons, the bill passed with 463 votes for and 3 against. And it was snowing in London for the first time in October since 1934.
Interestingly, Greenpeace stole some of Milipede’s thunder by leaking today’s Press Release last night. You might wonder, how come Greenpeace had a copy to leak? But actually, this little detail says all you need to know about milipede, about DECC and about this whole bizarre scheme.
I think your met office guys are not lying, they just don’t see any snow or ice at all!, neither your authorities, I think this is due to a new plant for the production of a beverage formula, which they are currently drinking, used many years ago at a some church convention in the Guyanas…something like Kool…something.
Warm in Canada?? I saw a post saying it was 10 C over normal in Northern Canada. Do you mean that minus 32 C in Iqaluit should really be minus 42 C? How does that matter? Cold is cold. It is minus 17 C here in south central Ontario. Normal is minus 5 C. No, that’s not any 10 C over normal. That is 12 under normal, the same 5 to 15 C under normal we have been running for 2 and a half years. Somebody please get these AGW supporters out of the weather business.
Jordan (09:38:33) :
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. “
The UK`s health and safety act will never allow this sport to be played on a natural lake ever again, fact.
At the end of the interview with Hirst they should have played the famous clip of the comment by Dr.Andrew Watson (of UEA) at the end of his debate with Marc Morano.
You can buy “heavy duty snow chains for shoes” for $50, reviewed here on Cool Tools:
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003486.php
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?
Current “northern” Canadian temperatures:
Inuvik – -26C
Old Crow – -23C
Iqualit – -32C
And, as Kevin mentioned, Edmonton suffered thru -40C and worse a few weeks ago. The same was true of Whitehorse and other places.
I think someone’s been feeding you a line about northern Canada being milder.
“where is going to be hit hardest?
Wait for it…
East Anglia…right where the CRU is! There IS a god”
Unfortunately, it will also fall on refuteniks like me!!
The snow it snoweth equally
On the just and unjust fella
But more upon the just
For the unjust hath the just’s umbrella.
You might very well think that.
I couldn’t possibly comment.
The lion in winter
Video couldn’t be reached here in belgium at 20:30 CET, so here’s the youtube link with the fabulous Mr Hirst : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8BCnX8LIIY
From the today’s Guardian:
“Current weather forecasts, which suggest temperatures remaining low and more snow to come, is raising confidence that the number of Highland skiers could return to the peak years of the 1960s and 1970s.
At the Met Office, a spokesman said he wouldn’t recommend investing in Scottish ski lodges. Its climate predictions suggest that by 2080 the average winter night-time temperature in the Highlands will rise by 4C. Even a two-degree rise will permanently reduce the amount of lying snow by up to 90%.”
Time is right to invest heavily in Scottish ski lodges then!
As I read recently:
When the managers at the Met Office get fired we can now safely assume that they wouldn’t have seen it coming.
@Barry Foster, K. Bray, Kadaka, M. Simon, Ray, philincalifornia, Philip Franklin, Rorschach et al.
You’re imagining things. You must all be on drugs. But Trotsky is definitely there. His ‘tache is in Coventry, he’s wearing a white jacket and he might be playing the drums.
All of the Norther hemisphere is cover in snow good.. Now pay your carbon tax and your heating oil tax and your power by coal tax.
Met Office Chief : “Who reckons it’s going to be warm … I count seven hands … that makes it a 70% probability”
However I do wonder about those forecasts for rain when the probability of rain on a day a week out, gets higher each day but the forecast amount gets less. Eventually there’s a 90% chance of <1mm … and the day is fine. Magically, a forecast for rain becomes correct.
Hot debate, polluted science. It’s clear to me that it isn’t the Earth that needs help…
In my 42 years of living in South Sweden I have never experienced a winter like this one. It’s fantastic! Everywhere these postcard like views of crystal white snow covering trees and fields. It certainly helps to make the “dark season” (7 hrs daylight now) a bit more livable. Also because it’s so cold (below -10 C for two weeks now) the snow is like a lightweight powder.
“Lie, Lie, Lie that something remains”, add to that those Hansen’s toy trains, a bit of german language and you get the whole recipe:
http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/germany/sp001630/peter.html
Sitting here on the edge of Snowdonia in North Wales – the power is on but averaging around 160 Volts not 220-240V as it should be. Been that way since mid afternoon… It’s 2030hr UK time. Flourescent tubes won’t start, electric kettle is taking a LONG time to boil, and I’m surviving courtesy of the big 3KVA Uninterruptable Power Suppy (UPS) I installed years ago. That keeps the computers up for a good 2 hours. My neighbours are using candles… Candles are actually quite nice – might as well get used to them…
It’s only minus 4.5C here near the coast so what the hell? Things could be a lot worse! They probably will be by morning!
I console myself knowing that my house is built on the terminal moraine debris left by the Snowdon Glacier in the last Ice Age… It’s a permanent reminder of just how bloody lucky we are to be warm enough most of the time!