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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Wasn’t it the Met Office that said the UK will experience “Milder, shorter winters…” as a result of climate change?
Doug Obach said (December 2, 2010 at 1:30 pm):
Can someone please let me know how the CBC can report that its the warmist year in the history of Canada???
I have begun constructing graphs based on published temperature data from RAF Shawbury, simply because it’s close to home. The Met Office series dates back only to 1957. Can anybody help me out here: I want to find a longer series, ideally close to home so I can validate by talking to local farmers or by accessing newspaper archives.
I want the authentic source data. The Met Office is so contaminated by true believers in Global warming that I’m wary that the buggers might’ve “improved” the data. Gimme the source data – preferably written in good old ink – and I’ll be happy to consider correction factors provided they chime with common sense. Such an approach is imperfect, using one location as a world proxy, but I can live with that, and the warmistas dismissive: “Huh, global warming happens worldwide. Your neck of the woods is an exception.” To unpick the fabric of deceit we must begin with a single stitch.
Like Doug Olbach, I want to see their workings. They claim it’s ‘the warmest ever’…. well I want to run a suspicious auditor’s eye over their data. It’s about time that Climatography got Quality Assured.
I am located in the middle of the UK and what is outside is seriously impressive, some 2 to 3 feet covering. I have not witnessed anything like this in the UK for an awful long time, back some 50 years maybe. Those memories are vague.
But what is happening in the UK this winter is weather, extreme, but weather. It is still possible to have a Met Office “mild winter”.
However I wonder if the Met Office will comment on the last decade of UK CET numbers which demonstrate a significant cooling trend.
To find a lower annual mean than this year’s number we have to go back 23 years to 1987. There is an equal in 1996, 14 years ago.
Over the last decade none of the season trends show warming. Spring is level, the other three are cooling.
The “growing season” April to October this year is 0.6C below last year and 1.6C below 2006.
I wonder why over the last decade “The World’s Oldest Thermometer” appears to be bucking the “global warming” trend.
The snow is a pain and will probably be gone soon. It is weather, but a decade long cooling trend?
The HadCET seasonal and other numbers:-
http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/data/download.html
One sure way to get rid of AGW is to keep having these AGW conferences. Those jacks cannot catch a break with their timing.
Typically the caption does not have a mention of Ireland where records have also been broken over the last few days!
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/1202/breaking1.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/1202/1224284572575.html?via=rel
and this one which to me seems familiar somehow to a year 2000 comment from the CRU!
This one is dated : [By Treacy Hogan Environment Correspondent]
Wednesday December 01 2010
Climate report predicts snow and ice will be thing of the past
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/climate-report-predicts-snow-and-ice-will-be-thing-of-the-past-2442959.html
Sound familiar?
Let them eat Cancun…
How many brits are now wishing that they had 2 weeks off to party in sunny warm Cancun on the taxpayer pound?
As was correctly predicted by some comments above.
From the BBC article.
Dr Vicky Pope, the Met Office’s head of climate science advice, explained that the cold weather in Britain is compatible with the warming pattern…….
Now who can say this isn’t a disruption? A global climate disruption caused so obviously by none other than that warming agent CO2? I guess Mann’s hockey stick graph was upside down all along…the blade actually points down!
Much earlier this year? That’s the second time this year.
Really Amazing considering the Pope’s and the Viner’s who first claimed snow would be a thing of the past and now say “It’s Global Warming”.
Please read Public Stupidity.
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/12/public-stupidity.html
But the ‘climate scientists’ from East Anglia are in Mexico, and when they get back and recuperate from their taxpayer tequila’s, they will convince the government that it was all an illusion, and it was still the hottest year for ever and ever amen!
Doug obach
This web page may help too
http://ec.gc.ca/adsc-cmda/default.asp?lang=en&n=8C03D32A-1
MattN says:
December 2, 2010 at 1:46 pm
Just remember, we get more snow in warmer years.
… and lower temperatures!
An it’s not only the UK.
Please read: Cold and Snow in “Brennpunkt”, 28 dead in Europe due to cold.
http://notrickszone.com/2010/12/02/cold-and-snow-in-brennpunkt-28-dead-in-europe-due-to-cold/
What we have is atmospheric circulation gone into reverse. Cold air stream from “Siberia” blowing over North Sea picking up moisture and dumping it as snow. This links directly to the NAO and position of jet stream, but somehow seems also to correlate with solar activity. In Aberdeen we have over foot of snow – almost unheard of this time of year, and more forecast. Temperatures inland down to -20˚C – and it’s only early December. I guess this may be how the LIA began. Oh and by the way we are running out of nat gas and oil and coal and nuclear as well.
From Joe Bastari’s Blog
THURSDAY NOON
COLD HITTING ITS WORST POINT NEXT THREE DAYS… PATTERN EVOLVES WARMER (BUT STILL QUITE COLD) FOLLOWING WEEK. MID MONTH ON SHOULD BE BACK TO NORMAL IN NORTHWEST
Quite a headline.
And now a letter from a Norwegian reader:
….”I just want to let you know that middle of Norway just experienced the coldest November in at least 222 years! Similar records have been set all across the country with entire country as all being coldest on average in nearly 100 years or so….”
I wonder if the powers that be may want to think about that Nobel Peace Prize they gave for those fighting global warming?
The letter also goes on to opine about the obvious difference between the U.S. snow and ice center (heh, we are obviously driving this climate change train, no doubt about it to me, though we have a lot of partners) in their ice measurements and the other global centers.
But here is the question… Can London hit their coldest temperature ever? According to Wikianswers: According to the BBC it was -10c but in the suburbs it can get down to -12c.
We have a shot at getting that, and in fact the European model is forecasting Heathrow to hit -10C!
The shiver that is hitting is similar to the opening of January last year worldwide, where major cold shots engulfed the Far East, the eastern U.S., and Europe. That these are growing more pronounced is no accident, and the climate people arguing for reduction of greenhouse gasses are acting like spoiled children when they claim whatever happens means they are right. I wish I had their job. When I am wrong, in what I do in the private sector, the ramifications are people will cancel their contract if they feel I am wrong enough of the time to lose them money… By the way, it’s what I love about competition and capitalism… it forces those that wish to excel to compete… Imagine if your favorite football team was forced to “redistribute goals” based on some fictional rule that said that it wasn’t fair to score more than the other team?
I bet you wouldn’t be watching much football, eh?
Moral is that these wild cold shots mean at the least, the Earth is fighting back from the warming, which is intuitive given the actual total history of the globe. What is amazing is the arrogance, and sheer elitism of a crew that will claim such events as theirs, when they have cost the world an untold amount shoving an unproven agenda down people’s throats. While I have always believed he was good-intentioned (unlike many of my other companions in this debate), at the very least Al Gore’s stand on ethanol, sacrificing food for a fuel that not only can still be attained through fossil sources, but is polluting the northern Gulf o Mexico to a point where it’s becoming dead (fertilizer coming downstream), and then his complete capitulation on the hurricane issue (remember, global warming causes more hurricanes), should at least give pause. But instead, like any good ideologue, it’s simply ignore the facts and then claim the opposite effect as the sign you are right.
I get nuts about this stuff. For instance, in the month of November I had a U.S. forecast that was too cold by 2 degrees. This has major ramifications. Fortunately it appears December will vindicate me, and then if it gets warm in places I have targeted, my clients will probably on balance be happy, since they got the forecast for the winter in August. However, suppose, and there are some over here that are thinking this, the rest of December is warm? Well, two busts in a row, and people are going to be upset (not that they, and I, are not upset now). Suppose for instance, this cold wave simply holds all winter in northwest Europe and the pattern from the northwest to Scandinavia does not break with the cold coming farther southeast? A lot of you will be mad with me. BUT I AM NOT SETTING WORLD POLICY… NOR AM I FORCING YOU INTO SITUATIONS WHERE YOU MAY HAVE TO WONDER WHETHER YOU SPEND YOUR MONEY OVER FOOD, OR ENERGY, because someone that “knew better” set a standard that ties all our hands. Get the difference? Instead, what will happen is no one will read my blog anymore, no one will buy my services (assuming I am wrong enough), and so the crucible of competition will allow the cream to rise to the top.
The most ironic thing about this is that while I am on the side of the aisle that says cycles and cooling, I don’t want my opponents shut down. Quite the contrary. I want fair and even debate, and let the atmosphere decide who was right and wrong.
But how can that be, when no matter what the answer, one side is going to claim they are right?
Stay warm my friends, while you search for the truth in this matter.
And by the way, to those from Spain to Turkey and north, but south of the area so cold now, you will get yours for the mid and late winter. I have no changes to the totality of the winter idea.
http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/bastardi-europe-blog.asp?partner=accuweather
Piers Corbyn’s Weather Action site correctly predicted last winter’s Arctic weather event in the UK – he accurately predicted that the country would have a ‘severe arctic event’ around January 6th-12th – which it did.
We have now had more than 8 days of serious snowfall and bitter winds on the East Coast – the snow is piled 4feet deep around the walls of my house – and Corbyn is forecasting that this ‘is not just a short cold snap;. He says it will last for a good three months – with extreme cold throughout December, January and February – possibly longer. If that turns out to be true, the UK is in deep, deep trouble. The road and rail network has broken down completely after less than a week; supermarkets cannot restock with milk and basic foods; farmers cannot feed livestock in the fields and neither can they harvest winter vegetable crops, which are now buried under feet of snow.
This is a very, very serious situation.
Please can we have an unbiased appraisal as to how effective windmills have been in providing electricity for the grid this winter
When someone trys to squeeze AWG in between my ears i just tell them no shit we’re warming up, We are coming out of a little ice age and we have only warmed up 0.7 degrees in 250+ years!!!!! It’s been alot warmer in the past and life florished in these times.
As for canada and 2010 being warmer then ever i find it very hard to believe. Right here in the greater montreal area spring and summer have been very bad (very little sunshine and not much heat waves like in the past) Also since 2007 we have had record winters in terms of snow. A very good explaination for the temperture being A LITTLE HIGHER is that the night tempertures have been much higher due to having so much cloud cover so the heat stays and also the fact that their is so much urban sprawl here well you know what happens to the weather station tempertures who themselves have not moved.
Ice in November that’ll bear a duck
Rest of the year in slush and muck.
Anthony: AGW does not refer to a constant rise in global temperature everywhere. Rather, it refers to an overall increase in mean global temperature.
This, regretfully, is an often made confusion. The top 11 warmest years have all been in the last 13 (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071213101419.htm).
If you want, I’ll get some graphs demonstrating a rise in the average global temperature. That’s what global warming’s about.
Ahhh pure and white, truth and honesty.
And not a Green(ie) or red to be seen. Looks like heaven.
I may have to rethink my atheist position.
Doug Obach
Despite the record 2010 warm winter in Canada , if you exclude the El Nino winters of 2003,2005, 2007 ,and 2010 the Canadian winter temperature departure [ anomaly] from the 1948-2010 norm has actually been dropping during the last 10 years since 2000 from 2.5C in 2000 t0 0.3C in 2009, the last very cold winter. Some regions like the Prairie Provinces have seen as much as 7.1 C drop from the 2006 winter .The warm El Nino’s greatly warm Canadian winters because of the close proximity to the warmer Pacicfic Ocean .The 2009/2010 El Nino is what accounted for the record 2010 warm winter and why there was less snow during the last Olympics , not due to global warming as many alarmists claimed . The snow prediction for the 2011 winter in my region[ Ontario] is for 130 -160 cm of snow over the winter. That is about 4-5 feet. So there is no unusal warming taking place in our winters despite the warm last winter. I expect our winters to continue to cool to the late 1970’s and early 1980’s levels during the next 20-30 years as both PDO and AMO go negative or cool despite the warmists hype to expect unprecedented warming. The winter of 2009 was typical of what we can expect during the next several decades.
Acinonyx says:
“If you want, I’ll get some graphs demonstrating a rise in the average global temperature. That’s what global warming’s about.”
While you’re looking for those graphs, I have a few that will help inform you.
But first, let me point out that your “top 11 warmest years” are all within the satellite era, from about 1979 to current.
As Phil Jones says, statistically that shows little warming. And what little warming there is reults from the planet’s emergence from the LIA. There is no testable, empirical evidence showing that CO2 is the cause of that *very* mild 0.7° natural rise.
Now, for some graphs of the Holocene and before. Just to give you some much-needed perspective of where we are today:
click1 [Vostok. Current temps are at the left of the chart]
click2 [Greenland]
click3 [Vostok. Past 140K years]
click4 [Vostok, past 12,000 years]
click5 [Vostok, past 423,000 years]
click6 [Natural temperature variations within the Holocene]
click7 [Past 50K years]
click8 [MWP back to the last interglacial]
click9 [Vostok, declining temp trend over the Holocene]
click10 [your leader explains]
What we are observing now is completely normal, natural, and well within past parameters.
Ah, When the snow lay round about…………. or so the song goes… 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmmgsDfmPSI
Just thought I’d mention that in the Aberdeen where I live, Kurt Cobain country, Meteora came by last week and combed several inches of dandruff on us. Not nearly the foot people in that other one over in Scotland are claiming, though some of the stump farmers up the East Wishkah may have come close. Around here we get a white Christmas every half dozen years or so. White turkey day WUWT???? Only twice before in my memory, which goes back a lot farther than I want to admit.