WUWT readers may recall this post from last year on January 8th, 2010
All of Britain covered by snow
Along with a stunning satellite image. Well, it has happened again, much earlier this year. See the newest satellite image below.
From the BBC they write:
The University of Dundee’s satellite receiving station captured this image of how the heavy snow of the past week has affected the UK.
The picture, which was received at 1145 GMT on Thursday from Nasa satellite Terra, shows almost the entire country covered by a blanket of snow.
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That’s bound to put a chill on AGW.
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The yearly winter forecast score so far: Piers Corbin’s weatheraction 5, Met Office 0.
Thanks DavidS
-Jay
Here’s the money quote from your link:
“According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
The effects of snow-free winter in Britain are already becoming apparent. This year, for the first time ever, Hamleys, Britain’s biggest toyshop, had no sledges on display in its Regent Street store. “It was a bit of a first,” a spokesperson said.”
Anthony,
you should have shown a comparison:
1. taken on 7th January
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47061000/jpg/_47061196_greatbritainjpg.jpg
2. taken today, on 2nd December
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/50265000/jpg/_50265949_uk_snow_dundeeuni.jpg
Guys, I think this winter will be worse than we thought… 😆
Doug Obach: I guess it’s the high Arctic parts of Canada that are “warm”. Just look at the global anomaly map: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/map/ANIM/sfctmpmer_01a.fnl.30.gif
Baffin Island is one of the very few places in the world with a strong positive anomaly now. Looking at data for Iqaluit: http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/city/pages/nu-21_metric_e.html it is indeed very mild, with temperatures around the freezing point. But look at the outlook: The next few days will see a return to normal temperatures for this time of year.
Not sure why the link to the report was missing above: http://met.no/?module=Articles;action=Article.publicShow;ID=7533
“This is called weather, and, believe it or not, it is not always predictable and it changes quite often. It is not the same as climate, and single events are not the same as trends. Is this really so hard to understand?”
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Climate at its root must be composed of some amount of weather.
You can shout “trend ” all you like but at some point the weather should match
the climate.
The more it doesn’t, the more we question the reports of the state of the climate.
if this winter carries on at this rate, it’ll be worse than the great winter of ’63.
I predict it will carry on like this. Since the London Thames froze over in ’63, I’m therefore commited to predicting the London Thames will freeze over this winter aswell.
Hope the AGW gang don’t dump salt and anti freeze in the thames just to refute me.
Well, not everywhere. My area, in the south west, has seen little or no snow. Mind you, our temperature is down to double figures – unfortunately preceded by a minus sign.
Espen
Thanks for the response at 2:02 pm. I just think you confirmed my guess that all the heating tends to take place in areas where there are no concentrations of people.
Given the abnormally high temperatures in the high Canadian arctic I am surprised that sea ice hasn’t collapsed. But hey, what do I know ….
I reside in the “clear” bit, north of Liverpool, next to the Irish Sea. Unlike most of the UK, we’ve only had a couple of sprinklings of snow, but the temperatures have remained well below the seasonal norm since early November. Our winters have become noticeably colder over the past 5 years. Last month was the coldest in the UK since 1913, and the lowest November temperature ever was recorded. Seeing how badly we Brits cope with cold(ish!) weather, I cannot imagine what will happen if the world continues to cool for another 20 years or more. Hopefully, we will be able to sell off the 10,000+ ineffective/unusable windmills that we will have purchased from Germany and the USA. Any takers?
Joe Lalonde at 1:46 pm ,
What ‘atmospheric pressure build-up’ are you referring to? And wouldn’t that show up in barometer measurements – which haven’t increased as far as I am aware of . . . ?
Doug Obach says:
December 2, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Not to mention one of the snowiest (is that a word?) Novembers on record. Nearly as much snow in one month as an entire winter and, sadly, more to come. I don’t have much more room in my small yard for any more.
But it can’t be that snowy just ask Met and WMO. The latter apparently is ready to swish their statistical wand and make 2010 the warmest year “ever” since all the way back to the 1850’s.
I’m thinking these hippies need less badly home-coded super computers and an least amount of weather stations around the globe to do any kinds of global statistics (and why isn’t that a standard already?) But of course hippie Hansen wouldn’t be to happy to have to use actual weather stations though, least like 60 000 of ’em. And just imagine what it would do to Mann-schtick if he had to use proxy data from 60 000 different locations spread out evenly around the globe?
Even heard a meteorologist on the good old BBC telling us that the cold weather was temporary phenomenon due to the Arctic ice melting – caused by global warming.. now that’s spin for you
I’m sorry, I’M SO SORRY ENGLAND..
But it’s almost like this is an ALLEGORY to the CRU and what is REALLY happening in England!
We are at war with Anthropogenic Global Cooling.
We have always been at war with Anthropogenic Global Cooling.
I do hope all those wind turbines are whirring away to make sure we’ve got lots of nice ‘renewable’ electricity to keep us warm tonight – its going to be about minus twelve, I believe…
Not enough wind..? Oh, dear. Well that buggers the theory then – better rely on good old coal/gas/nuclear, as they are having to do in Denmark, Germany and Holland, despite all the wind turbines they’ve got…
Grumpy old Man says: “…The whole point of a religion is that it’s rationale allows for all eventualities.”
And for Inquisitions. And Indulgences. And self-Righteousness. And extra Commandments. And altering Scripture, to make it fit better with current dogma.
It has indeed been very cold for the time of year for about a week, but my part of Devon county has little if any snow.
Otoh, it’s been very warm in Greenland and parts eastern N America.
Alarmists are still saying 2010 will be in the top three of warmest years in recorded history! Nothing can deter someone of faith.
We are already past global warming. This unnatural acidic snow is climate disruption itself.
“In any case you should think twice about snow,
though lovely and scenic, it’s acidic you know.”
History shows again and again
how Nature points up the folly of men.
Godzilla !
D. Roeser
“Godzilla”
Blue Oyster Cult
I`ll admit to anyone that it`s weather, not climate,
but i`m somewhere under that white out, being gently warmed by the irony.
R.S.Brown says:
December 2, 2010 at 3:13 pm
History shows again and again
how Nature points up the folly of men.
Godzilla !
D. Roeser
“Godzilla”
Blue Oyster Cult
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In fact, SHE seems to delight in it 🙂
To doug obach.
It is easy to explain why it was the warmest year ever in canada. If you look at the charts and graphs, you will see high temperature anomolies everywhere where people don’t live and no actual thermometers exist