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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James Allison says:
December 2, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Yes. Its the coldest November I ever remember in the UK . Compatible with global warming, pope says, yet a thing of the past previously, as mild global warming winters take hold. Both compatible with the same model.
compared to the mild Novembers of 5-15 years hitherto, I find this recent warming trend of freeze quite disturbing. Perhaps the oceans will expand – into ice – , portending robust global warming hitherto unkown.
Acinonyx
We’re well aware of how 20th-21st century figures are manipulated. 1872 was the coldest part of the entire holocene – the convenient starting point of AWG theory, so both the MWP and the holocene optimum, were warmer and longer in period than today. In fact, 3/4 of the holocene have been warmer than what we have experienced.
David S says:
December 2, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Jay: it was the esteemed CRU rather than the Met Office, so here we go, it’s the Independent’s most visited page, 10 years after it was published.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
It is amusing looking to the right up corner of that webpage and see:
“London -2ºC Hi 1°C / Lo -1°C”
GRAHAM WHITE
You said “This is a very serious situation”. I agree . It seems that the weather is not even following the typical La Nina winter situation in Uk which historically produced warmer winters [around 4-5 C] . This pattern of generally cooler weather could go on for 4-5 months for some regions . One of the early warning signs is the continuing high positive[15 to 25] SOI in the Pacific . It has been this way for now about 5 months . It often predicts cooler weather for the globe 5-7 months later , like starting now and going for the next 5 months ? PDO is already negative or cool and AMO is starting to cool too but the latter is more difficult to predict . AO already reached a near record levels of -4 for a short time.[ like last year]
Acinonyx says:
December 2, 2010 at 5:26 pm
“If you want, I’ll get some graphs demonstrating a rise in the average global temperature. That’s what global warming’s about.”
Can you please stand in for the UK Met Office and show me a graph that explains why the UK CET “The World’s Oldest Thermometer” is showing a significant decade long cooling trend?
I have people in the UK telling me that the 30 year “standard” measure shows a warming trend. But I am not in a 30 year “standard” warming trend, I am in the last year, i.e. the sharp end, the here and now of a decade plus cooling trend!
Why over the last decade has “The World’s Oldest Thermometer” become disconnected? Could it possibly be that in our quest to produce a “Global Temperature” series that we might just be fallible? I suppose you see that as impossible?
Please don’t come back with “there are three different series” as they are incestuous in both raw data and methodology.
You deniers just don’t get it do you? Listen to the UK experts – AGW will result in much milder, shorter winters and snow will become a distant memory, and that is why we are experiencing record cold temperatures in November and December and record snow falls.
Duh!
REPLY: I assume you are being sarcastic, though one never knows these days with the angroids that the AGW issue creates. If being sarcastic always use the /sarc tag so people don’t have to guess. Enjoy your snow in central London! – Anthony
Martin C says:
December 2, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Our barometers are not that sensitive considering we depend on how many atmospheres of pressure for the depths of oceans.
We have 4 pieces of physical evidence of planetary change is occurring:
1) Salinity changes only on the oceans surface.
2) Growth up mountains can only be obtained with the generation of a great amount of back pressure exerting out against the atmosphere.
3) Wind reduction planet wide is addition of molecules in the atmosphere that cause friction and slow down the winds.
4) Light diminishing due to debris or soot in the atmosphere.
These factors indicate NOT AGW but planetary atmospheric pressure build-up.
H2 O(Water) has generated a quite effective and fascinating survival defence against mass evaporation and dispersement.
The evaporation process only started a billion years ago and has a very good understanding with salt from spinning off this planet when it was rotating faster.
Can someone tell me of another great scientist who suffered as Phil Jones, Michael Mann, and their boys suffer? I am not thinking of a Galileo who was roughed up by other people; rather, I am looking for a great scientist who, upon publishing his theory, was immediately assaulted by his physical environment and the very topic of his work. Madame Curie doesn’t quite fit the bill because she was aware that this X-ray thing was going to be tricky. Can someone offer a bit of help, please?
Peter S says:
“You deniers just don’t get it do you? Listen to the UK experts…” & blah, blah, etc.
Peter S bets the farm on the always-wrong “UK experts”. heh. Let’s hear it for those “barbecue summers,” eh, Peter?
If listening to your ‘UK experts’ constitutes ‘getting it’, I am happy to be counted among those who don’t ‘get’ your AGW globaloney:
“AGW will result in much milder, shorter winters and snow will become a distant memory, and that is why we are experiencing record cold temperatures in November and December and record snow falls.”
IOW: anthropogenic global warming causes “record cold temperatures.”
Could you be any less credible?
Sorry Anthony… post-post /sarc. The snow in central London is a little thin on the ground right now, but it is always a welcome event – it magically transforms the capital. I won’t even ask how you know my whereabouts! 🙂
Peter S,
If you were being sarcastic, my apologies. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.
And yes, Anthony knows your whereabouts. He is a computer expert who knows where you are, when you used the commode, and whether you had kippered herring or spotted dick for lunch. He knows if you’ve been bad or good – so be good for goodness sake.☺
Smokey says:
December 2, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Actually old friend we were quite used to cold winters and here is a little film of how we dealt with it in those far off days. 1963 in fact. Enjoy.
Kindest Regards
Theo Goodwin says:
December 2, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Can someone tell me of another great scientist who suffered as Phil Jones, Michael Mann, and their boys suffer?
No, I can honestly say that I can not think of anybody in the same catagory
a jones,
Tbat was a very enjoyable video. Thanks for posting it.
Your [old] friend,
~ Smokey
Hey Doug Obach, CBC is easy to explain ,Toronto is Canada to them, we who are west and north of their bubble are not in Canada.Remember the Enviroment Canada response to the Pembina Institutes FOI query into the state of Canadian weather records? There are not many stations reporting from the high arctic, so much is extrapolated apparently. Here in the lower arctic we have about 4″ of global warming and had a damp and cooler spring summer and fall.Its a balmy minus 25 C at the moment. On the bright side I just had the green energy solution come to me, human hamster wheels driving electric alternators. As community service sentences soon to be imposed on the purveyors of climate fear and ineffectual green alternate energy schemes(brainless assaults on our communities) the guilty will work off their debt to society by providing power when ever their alternative solutions fail. I expect they will develope massive leg muscles.
Is it a coincidence that the global anomaly map show Arctic high temperatures in the same region that had satellite problems earlier this year?
And it’s still snowing. Leave the barbecue in the garage.
It’s been hitting -12C a lot of days here in Ontario near Lake Simcoe — you can tell it’s getting that cold. Most people throw on a jacket over their T-Shirts — though most people don’t button the jacket. Nobody here likes to get so hot they sweat.
Most people have started to wear long pants — almost nobody is wearing shorts at -12C — although some do. Sweatshirts over a T-Shirt aren’t unusual. If it stays cold or gets colder most will wear a coat — unbuttoned and flapping in the wind.
Personally? I think most of my neighbours are nuts. I would rather be enjoying cerveza y camerones on the beach in Cancun. Each to their own.
…tales of the frozen Tundra…
“a jones says:
December 2, 2010 at 7:43 pm”
Great video of the early “British Rail” period and how the railways dealt with a bit of weather. And the legacy of Dr Beeching’s “modernisation plan” the rail transport network can’t even deal with wet leaves on the lines let alone snow to depths back then and today.
Everyone of my UK based friends and family are posting me images of heavy snow, covering everything. I’ve not seen images like this since the cold/snowy winters of the 1970’s where we had to deal with power outages (Power worker strikes) and very cold temperaures.
The amazing thing to me is….this is the second time in a single calendar year (yet spanning two winter seasons…..oh wait….we are still three weeks from the solstice) where the UK is in the deep freeze with deep snow.
Simply astounding.
And THIS from the UK Met website:
“As we head into December and take a look at the Met Office outlook, there appears to be no abrupt end to this cold and snowy weather for some time, but as soon as our forecasters see a change we will let you know.”
Basically…they are saying: “WE DON’T HAVE A CLUE WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON.”
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
“savethesharks says:
December 2, 2010 at 9:42 pm”
It’s a decades long standing joke in the UK with predictions from The MET. When The MET says “It’ll be hot and dry in summer”, the Brits have a bit of chuckle to themselves, raise an eyebrow and think “Hummm, better get some wellies, a decent brolly and a good raincoat.” and more often than not, reality behaves somehow nothing like their predictions.
They obviously need a bigger power consuming computer as the current one is not producing enough “C02’s” (To coin a phrase from Geremy Clarckson) to force Gaia to prove their computer based prdictions right.
Go Gaia!
An official weather station near my home in Oslo has a record back to 1927. November this year had -4.9C shattering the old record, which was -4.0C. I did a quick statistical analysis. Compared to the 1961-1990 normal this year’s November was a once in a century event. However, if I compare against a running 30 year average assuming one of the more modest forcasts for the effect of global warming in this part of Norway, which matches well an extrapolation of the local warming since the late 80’s, this year’s November becomes a once in a millennium event (i.e. assuming continued warming for 2011-2025).
The Transport Secretary, Phillip Hammond, blamed “very extreme weather” conditions for causing travel disruption.
Also from the BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11898537
Theo Goodwin says:
December 2, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Can someone tell me of another great scientist who suffered as Phil Jones, Michael Mann, and their boys suffer?
The closest I can think of is Priestly. He clung to the phlogiston theory of combustion to the bitter end and caught quite a bit of heat for it. He was sincere though.
And yet there is opportunity in it to fund the construction of conventional power plants, using the crisis as a justification, once the death toll gets high enough and the press howls for the heads of the powers that be. (Cf. Rahm Emanuel)
Perhaps this has been Cameron’s plan all along. A canny politician would plot his course this way.
Clearly we need Lord Oxburough and some distinguished experts to form a Royal sounding commission to determine if that white stuff is, in fact, snow.