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.
Smokey @ur momisugly December 2, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Thanks for posting that very handy and informative selection of charts.
Our political masters, regardless of party, have all embraced the policy of future brown outs and black outs. Almost no investment in new power stations over the past 15 years and now a love of unreliable, expensive, renewable energy projects, such as giant windmills.
Outside, the snow is lying deep on the ground and the air is still.
We still lead the world in goofiness, when it comes to ‘climate science’, as the events of the past few years have shown. This achievement will be a great comfort to future generations as they sit huddled in blankets waiting for the wind turbines to turn.
Some damn fool from the Met Office was on TV yesterday explaining that heavy falls of snow are evidence of “climate change”. She got the softest questioning imaginable from the BBC interviewer – along the lines of “Please tell us why heavy snow is due to global warming?”
The main problem here in the UK is not so much the snow and the cold, but that the government and public bodies all swallow the Met Office line about milder, shorter winters. Therefore they do not prepare for heavy snow and biting cold weather. If the government had prepared better we would not be having these problems. But they are fully signed up to the Warmist agenda.
Jay says: “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.
awww … I was going to say that!
Strange how the reputation of the CRU was assessed on whether it could be proven to have lied based on the data it had “lost” and not on it’s use of exaggerated predictions that were patently ridiculous and totally unscientific.
Patrick Davis says: 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.
Except for our stupid MPs who spend their life in the urban heated dump that’s called London and then speed off to tropical climes for a third of the year and experience so little if anything of the real (cold) British weather suffered by their electors.
No wonder these – here-today-gone-tomorrow MPs seem to think the whole world has become super heated ….
…. until that electorate they gave the cold shoulder too dump them in the cold at the next election.
In October, or there abouts, the UKMO predicted a mild winter. This may be true given that we are still in autumn! We have had the coldest temperatures on record in a couple of places and that was in November. Last night, 2nd Dec, was forecast to be colder due to clear skies. I live in Lincolnshire, the hilly Wolds, and we have 1 ft+ of snow and a female Labrador who has still to make up her mind whether she likes it or not. Certainly not to squat in!
So I think that the ‘mild’ forecast may be wrong and those pesky Russians, who have nabbed the 2014 World Cup, may be correct with their ‘colder winters’ forecast.
2 September 2010
“Share this pageFacebookTwitter ShareEmail Print Huge snowfall caused by rare clash of weather events”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11152077
“Scientists have shown that a severe snowfall in North America and Northern Europe in the winter of 2009-10 was caused by a rare, once-in-a-century, collision of two weather systems.”
Are we having another once-in-a-century event? If so might we have another one next year?
may its this causeing the extreme weather a mysterious vortex in the gulf of aden
It is a bit amusing that people in Norway are surprised by temperatures like -6°C.
It has been -20°C in the morning on November 30th in South Colorado, at the latitude of the Iranian seashore! It continues to be bitterly cold every night here. We keep two stoves going all the time.
Since Earth’s temperature is following the solar activity with a lag of about 3-4 years, I think we won’t see warmer winters until 2013, maybe 2014.
“Where there are no theremometers, it is getting warmer, much warmer. Trust us on that.”
Huge masses of very frigid air are descending from the Artic Polar region, and they are displacing warm air from southern climes to move to the Artic polar region. Damn, the world is warming . . . in the Artic Polar Regions, sho ’nuff.
The current crisis is definitely man made – at least in my local council.
Yes, this is unusually early snow and lots of it, but it would have been manageable, even with the persistent snow fall. My kids have been off school for the whole week, leaving a lot of working parents in great difficulties. The most annoying thing is that the collapse of the infrastructure is almost entirely down to a string of administrative decisions – a few years ago the council decided to outsource road clearance to a private company – and then chose not to invest enough money in their contract with them.
There were four brand new snow ploughs/gritters just sitting in the company’s yard this week, most likely due to a lack of qualified drivers thanks to the council’s decision to discontinue funding any extra qualifications of their staff and payment for services delivered. Snow plough certificates are held by quite a number of council employees but now they’re expected to pay for renewal fees themselves plus they’re no longer rewarded financially for the extra service they provide. Thus a much lower number offer to be on 24hr call to drive the snow ploughs/gritters.
And even if the council had managed to clear the roads around our schools, the janitorial workforce was cut by 50% recently so now they don’t have the staff to check the heating/plumbing hasn’t suffered any damage and to get it all going and it means more staff living further away and not able to get into the schools thanks to the roads not being cleared.
We certainly had enough teachers as their contract demands they report for duty at their nearest school in such circumstances as this, but the ones I know were told not to bother as the schools were closed due to the above reasons anyway.
Wonder how that works out financially for the council – was the money saved through these decisions worth the collapse of the infrastructure? And what if we had a snowy cold spell lasting for a month?
Ten years ago the Met Office told us that because of global warming, children would grow up in the UK never seeing snow. We were also told that severe winters such as we had in the 1940s and 1960s, which occurred with a frequency of once every 20 years, would still occur, but because of global warming would be a once every thousand years event. Funny that only ten years into a new millenium we have had two once-in-a-1000-years events within 12 months.
Amusing to see how even my fellow norwegians from the south of our long (and cold) country seem to be unaware of the temperatures along the northern coast of Norway. It’s well above the arctic circle, but the temperatures there are nevertheless above freezing. Care to comment Steinar?
Acinonyx says:
December 2, 2010 at 5:26 pm
“Anthony: AGW does not refer to a constant rise in global temperature everywhere. Rather, it refers to an overall increase in mean global temperature.”
So why did you nuts go on record and say snow would be a thing of the past and children would never experience it? You guys really need to sit down together and get your collective stories straight because you really sound foolish.
The British Met Office fills me with wonder; my twice-daily temp readings from my back-yard instruments in suburban London ( I have two thermometers in case one shows a serious error, but the two have always agreed) tell me that the Met forecasts have a consistent error toward ‘warm’ , an error which increases as the temperatures drop; the readings of yesterday, Dec 2, are typical – forecast max = -1c, actual = -2c, while the forecast Min = -4c, actual Min = -7c, which tells me that it’s a helluva lot colder than the Met Office said it would be. My readings matched the forecast on only two days in the previous two months. As the seasons tick around to Summer again, the difference between my instruments and the Met Office forecast will be minimal, on past experience.
The real problem is that their forecast has no memory – they announce or print the forecasts and each following day, yesterday’s forecast goes down the memory hole, then it’s replaced by the new forecast, so their performance is never mentioned by them or examined as a reality check.
I also have a rain guage, but it blocked a day ago, the powdered snow sat frozen in the mouth of the tapered graduated tube, so I measured the snow with a ruler.
My old home on the Hibiscus Coast in the Rodney District, NZ, looks very inviting right now with today’s on-line forecast min of 15c and a high of 23c, while I look out my work-room window at yesterday’s snow sitting frozen in place on all the tiny garden shed roofs and lawns in the neighbouring back yards.
Strangely, my max/min thermometer in NZ used to agree closely with the NIWA forecast but I did have to empty my rain guage twice each day in the wetter parts of the year, as the occasional rainstorm would fill it in a couple of hours – NIWA refers to these as ‘rain bombs’ and they are damned inconvenient to be caught outdoors in!
The UK will return to a mini Ice age because the Atlantic conveyor has been shut down due to the entry of oil into the north Atlantic, via the gulf oil being dispersed into the deep water thermoclines. It will get much worse, depending on how long the oil regulates the characteristics of the Atlantic conveyor.
When year after year the weather does not match the climate models, shouldn’t real scientists start to question those models? If the temperatures actually experienced by us don’t match the claims by experts don’t we have a right to challenge those claims? After all we are paying their wages.
Very cold here, lots of snow, just like my childhood back in the sixties. Maybe a repeating pattern, signs of a cycle coming around off a maximum and running down to cooler times?
savethesharks says:
December 2, 2010 at 9:42 pm
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.”
In other words: OPEN A WINDOW and you’ll be the first to know!
From the “Children won’t know what snow is department”: Dr. David Viner, whose place in history is assured by that splendid prediction, has a rival for the title of Britain’s Most Gormless Global Warming Expert. Professor Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Energy programme, reassures us that “gravity will remain roughly the same”. Phew! With all the old certainties disappearing, it’s good that our Top Brains can find some continuity in amongst all the chaos.
The Anderson Declaration’s fuller version is: “I mean there are some things in science, you know, gravity will remain roughly the same, there will be lots of things in science that remain the same. And therefore we can say quite a lot about the physical makeup of the world. And if you know there’s 9 million billion people in there about how they may respond.” Reference: http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/audio/getting-four-degrees
With experts like this, who needs village idiots?
More bs from the Non-Scientist, writing in the Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/8178162/Are-we-freezing-because-of-global-warming.html
With an almost immediate response from Dellers
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100066594/signs-that-show-man-made-global-warming-is-definitely-still-happening/
What a beautiful sight, so long as you ain’t a commuter/consumer 😉
Think back to Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol or even further back to Sam Pepys skating on the Thames.
Yet in this paranoid era, everything is designed to ramp up the fear.
Try looking into the workings of the Tavistock Institute to find out why you are being conned and so messed with.
Chill out…
M. White 1:45
“Are we having another once-in-a-century event?”
It just seems that way – the centuries go by more quickly when you’re older.
Smokey says:
“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.”
But how can that be??? I haven’t had a smart meter installed yet!!! 😮
David L says:
December 3, 2010 at 2:45 am
So why did you [snip] go on record and say snow would be a thing of the past and children would never experience it?
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because it was one guy who made that assessment and that assesssment was based on some time in the future. In other words not this year but a generation hence. The temperature so far has only shifted 0.7C.
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You guys really need to sit down together and get your collective stories straight because you really sound foolish.
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I thought you guys were having a moral outrage fit because you believe the scientists did exactly that. I guess the truth slips out by accident sometimes.
In case you guys did not notice, the climate modellers PREDICTED several years ago that there would be more extreme weather events. It’s just plain cheating to claim that the scientists are modifying their story after the event.
Yes, severe winters are the direct result of global warming.
Everyone knows that!
Please God that the earth doesn’t warm any more …
Or we’ll all freeze to death!