By Steven Goddard,
There has been a lot of talk about the hot weather in Moscow over the last couple of weeks. This normally gets reported as the “hot weather in Russia.” But Russia is a big country, and much of it has been experiencing cold temperatures.
The Caucuses and nearby Kazakhstan have been getting hit by one cold wave after another – as seen in the video below.
Closeup of Kazakhstan below, showing temperatures 10-15C below normal near lake Balkash.
This past winter was one of the coldest on record in Siberia.
Record Low Temperatures Grip Siberia
I R K U T S K, Russia, Jan. 22
Winter in Siberia is usually spectacular and always very cold. But this winter has been relentless. Week after week, temperatures have been dipping to 50 below zero. Siberians are accustomed to the cold, but they were completely unprepared for temperatures this low
In further bad news for Kazakhstan, Alberto Contador is leaving team Astana at the end of the year.
Ryan Maue adds from his Florida State University weather map page, NCEP GFS forecast maps of 2-meter temperature anomalies for the globe and selected regions of the world. The anomalies are based upon the new NCEP CFSR reanalysis which extends from 1979-2009, and has the distinct advantage of being based upon a relatively recent incarnation of the NCEP GFS model (so sorta apples to apples). The climatological averages are based upon a 21-day centered average during the past 30-years. While western Russia bakes, the far east and Europe enjoys fall-like temperatures.
NCEP GFS Global Temperature Anomaly Forecasts
Also, Invest 91L in the central Atlantic is becoming better organized and is poised to develop into a Tropical Depression during the next couple of days. Current long-range models put the disturbance east of the Bahamas in 6-days.
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20 to 25° F below normal? Hell son, that’s just weather.
Now a heat wave with wildfires and drownings is climate change — proof positive of C³ — catastrophic climate change. And you can take that to the bank; you know, the one that was bailed out with your tax dollars.
But the cold is much hotter than we thought. :o)
I see that it’s cold in Quebec and Newfoundland where the ice sheets begin, and it’s also cold around the Antarctic Peninsula where it was supposed to be warming. Obviously weather!
I find it very surprising and hard to believe that Siberians are unprepared for temperatures of 50 below.
I was frequently in Nabarejne Celny in Tartaria in the former USSR in the 1970s working on the Kamaz truck plant and winter temperatures were often well below -40 centigrade with the lowest in my experience being -56 centigrade. I certainly was outside when it was this low – uncomfortable sure, but I did not lose any limbs.
Children were only kept in when temperatures were below -20. I saw construction workers mixing concrete (mixed with antifreeze) for the Kamaz truck plant when it was -10 or so.
Kazakhstan recently opened the largest tent of the world in their capital, as a refuge from the extreme climate:
http://www.rockingfacts.com/the-worlds-largest-tent-opened-in-kazakhstan/
Do my eyes lie or is the Antarctic continent basking in a +20c anomaly? In the depths of the coldest southern hemisphere winter in years the continent is covered in red, I doubt what I am seeing very much.
What is the current Antarctic mean temperature at the moment?
I wonder when Obama will flip to global cooling? After the November election? I wonder if the Warmista are giving due consideration to the timing of this event?
Wherein we demonstrate once again that weather is not climate, unless the weather is warmer, or wetter, or dryer or more violent.
Sheesh!
“How many times I need to tell you climate deniers that global is important, not local…”
It is always hot in the summer. Gets very hot. Cold in the summer is climate change. It is in the wrong direction. Not much of this news gets covered. The warmist sites are jealous of these vivid graphics.
I am sure the european side of Russia has very different weather patterns than the asian side of the Urals.
If it keeps getting colder, NASA will have to reduce the number of temp readings.
It was rumored that during the Soviet era, Siberians often reported falsely lower winter temperatures in order to get more fuel- and firing ration. If that is true, there might look like a weather improvement, if we assume they report truthfully now to say.
To put the heat wave into perspective.
So before Warmists jump up and down about global warming being the cause they have to answer what caused the 1920 and 1936 heat waves for example? Meanwhile they ignore the bitter cold of South America with single digits in the hothouse Amazon.
What’s up with the Antarctic ocean? The map shown above is totally at variance with this:
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.html
Please don’t forget Peru! Hundreds of children have died there:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/01/peru-freezing-weather-emergency
Ecotretas
“But Russia is a big country, and much of it has been experiencing cold temperatures.”
Most people don’t know how big. Did you know that the distance between Moscow and Chicago is the same distance as from Moscow to the Far East of Russia?
Random says:
August 1, 2010 at 10:50 am
“How many times I need to tell you climate deniers that global is important, not local…”
You are talking about the local heat in Northeastern US?
Globally the earth has been cooling since 1999. And looking at the bigger picture the earth has been cooling for 1000 years. And an even bigger picture for 6000 years.
“The Wet Sahara”, earth warmer 6000 years ago
Frederick Michael says:
August 1, 2010 at 11:31 am
What’s up with the Antarctic ocean? The map….
I don’t know about the Antarctic, but I see La Nina!
Frederick Michael says:
August 1, 2010 at 11:31 am
What’s up with the Antarctic ocean? The map shown above is totally at variance with this:
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.html
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Here is the problem:
http://reason.com/archives/2009/12/11/friday-funnies
I told you once…
The more CO2 there is in the atmosphere, the more hot air is created….as seen in the Climatological literature. 😉
Ecotretas says:
August 1, 2010 at 11:35 am
Please don’t forget Peru! Hundreds of children have died there:
As usual it is the poor hurting the worst. The poor, and elderly on fixed incomes, in America will hurt the worst if energy bills “necessarily skyrocket”. It won’t be only Peru were deaths occur in the cold.
[reply] Estimated 40000 excess deaths from cold in UK last winter. RT-mod
I had a flight student who was a Russian Emigre. Good pilot, but he’d wear his tropical
shirts and shorts any time the temp was above freezing. I asked him one day, “Gregor, where are you from? what part of Russia?” “Petropovalosk-Kamchatka” “Born and
raised.” ” Too warm here in Eastern Washington (Tri cities)” Ok. For that and other reasons, I thought to myself-these folks are born Spacemen….
Dome A Temperature
Latitude: 80 22″ 02’S
Longitude: 77 32″21’E
Height: 4084 m
Latest 24-hour-minimum temperature: -77.8°C (01Aug2010)
http://www.aad.gov.au/weather/aws/dome-a/index.html
Kazakhstan has both one humped camels and two humped camels.
Nevermind Russia, it looks like Antarctica is ON FIRE!
20C above normal for that whole area??? Really????
Well it’s “official” data so it MUST be true.
[reply] Estimated 40000 excess deaths from cold in UK last winter. RT-mod
Are those from high energy bills that drove pensioners to by discount books for heating fuel? 40,000, that is a very sad number. The same or worse will happen in the United States with high heating bills.
I am shocked by that number.
[reply] Fuel poverty is an offense to civilised society. RT-mod