Yesterday we saw the satellite image of the UK, buried under snow for the second time in 2010, see UK Covered in snow, for the second winter. And we’ve seen and heard the reports about the impact snow is having in the UK and in Europe. Now let’s have alook at some cold records.
Translated from http://www.yr.no/english/1.7405789 yr.no is the joint online weather service from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.
Norway got over a hundred new records in November.
Cold, colder, coldest. Unless you remember back to the year 1919, November 2010 is definitely the “coldest.”
The whole country is in the freezer
In the middle of November, it was extremely cold in many parts of the country, “says Hans Olav Hygen.
It is not uncommon for parts of the country to stand out when meteorologists summarize the weather of the past. This time the whole of Norway that stands out.
“It is so special that large areas are cold at once. It has simply been an unusual situation that has pumped cold air into the country, “said Hygen.
On the whole, Norway has therefore experienced the coldest month of November since 1919, with the full 3.57 degrees below the normal level. Because the norm is regarded as cold , this is a very big difference!
In many parts of the country, this is the coldest November in living memory, “commented Hygen.
Of the various regions is the Trøndelag and western that stands out the most:
| Region | Deviations from the norm | |
|---|---|---|
| Norway | -3,57 | |
| Eastern | -3,66 | |
| Agder College | -2,85 | |
| Western Norway | -3,58 | |
| Trøndelag | -4,42 | |
| North Norway | -3,28 |
Norwegian November stats published today showing 93 of 200 national stations setting record lows (average or absolute) for November.
http://www.yr.no/nyheter/1.7405789
A station like Utsira, in the middle of the Gulf current, had a min low of -6.2 beating the 1890 record of -5.6
h/t to readers “rtgr” and Geir Nøklebye
At the rate this is going, better start building nuclear power plants right now. Do people realize that nuclear power plants can be now built on assembly lines, improving quality, making the construction the same, and improving the cost.
Yeah you guess it, just like China is currently doing.
Why not the USA, eco-nuts please answer the question.
“2010 is close to the hottest ever”
Maybe their thermometers are “in the pipeline” with all of the missing heat.
About “hottest ever”: Take a look at the GISS anomaly for last winter: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/do_nmap.py?year_last=2010&month_last=10&sat=4&sst=1&type=anoms&mean_gen=1203&year1=2010&year2=2010&base1=1951&base2=1980&radius=1200&pol=reg
The annual global mean gets a lot of contribution from those strong positive anomalies in Arctic Canada. That conveniently hides the fact that these areas weren’t exactly balmy last winter: Take for instance Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, which was +5 C warmer than normal in February 2010. +5 doesn’t sound quite as impressing when you hear that the mean temperature was -28 C, while the normal is -33 C…
It makes me wonder if computing a global mean makes any sense at all…
The Gulf Stream current moves water at 30 million cubic meters per second.
According to Wikipedia, about 780,000 cubic meters of oil were released by the BP spill.
So, the oil may have slowed the current down…. for 3 hundredths of a second.
BBC News reported this morning that a -15C temp in the north of England (i.e. NOT Scotland) was the lowest since records began.
But yesterday same BBC News told us that the extreme UK cold was due to the Arctic melting which is, as predicted, due to AGW.
The Metro paper this week had a picture of a polar bear with cub on its back and the caption said that the polar bears had to swim further for food because the ice was melting (implication – it is warmer) and that the incidence of cubs riding on their mother’s for warmth back was increasing (implication – it is colder)
Heads they win, tails they win …
Whats all the moaning about!
The met office and UAE are about to prove that this is the warmest year since records began.
I prefer to listen to the experts who are paid to know about such things.
Feeling cold is just a relative thing.
If you don’t believe me try this!
Go outside in your swimsuit for an hour then come back inside.
Its much warmer now- see I told you.
Bob Tisdale says: {December 3, 2010 at 3:49 am}
“Is it true that the record lows are being blamed on the Gulf oil spill slowing the Gulf Stream? I heard that in conversation a few weeks ago.”
Bob,
I live along the southwest coast of Florida. No oil (read as none, nada, zip) ever came even remotely close to us. I also understand that no oil actually made it to the loop current in the Gulf of Mexico which would have possibly allowed it to make it’s way to the Bahamas. I have heard no reports of any oil there. I guess people just don’t understand how vast the waters of the world are.
“Jon says:
December 3, 2010 at 4:57 am
Our temperatures in Newfoundland are well above normal for this time of year … but hey it’s just weather :)”.
Like all all the other temperature quotes above, I suggest we hold our breath and wait for Dr Roy Spencer to post Nov. anomaly on http://www.drroyspencer.com/latest-global-temperatures/.
My guess is the we will see a further cooling. The question is how much and again in December. Most recent value using curser shows 0.23C drop compared with 28 November 2009. 1 December difference 0.39F (yes F) compared with last year. So temperatures are coming down and the party may be spoilt for those predicting 2010 as the hottest year ever. Let me predict that whatever happens, GISS will have 2010 as the hottest year EVER.
Reference above, the readings were taken off http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/
Sorry about that omission.
Coldest in at least 222 years”as far back “reliable” records go” in trondheim, norway where i sadly happen to live. Nearly every other month of 2010 beat records going decades back and we did not even have summer temps in june.
http://www.iceagenow.com/Coldest_in_Norway_in_222_years.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulhudson/
“It’s now been confirmed that last night was the coldest night ever recorded in Yorkshire with the mercury at Topcliffe in North Yorkshire falling to minus 19.0C.”
“Scampton in Lincolnshire has also broken its winter record, with Minus 13.6C.”
“Sheffield Weston Park is one of the most important observation sites in the UK simply because it has one of the longest data sets, records having started in 1882.
So it is very noteworthy when records are broken. Data is used for climatological purposes by the Met Office.
The snow depth recorded yesterday, 38cms of level snow in the city centre, was the deepest in any month since 1958.
It was also the deepest snow recorded in December since records began in 1882.
This follows the lowest minimum temperature ever recorded in November on the morning of Sunday 28th November, when the mercury fell to minus 7.2C.”
Anthony
I am an avid reader of WUWT. However, someone needs to look into the claims that 2010 is “going to be the hottest or is the hottest year”. Readers of your site know that “adjustments” are occurring in all of the temperature databases shared by the leading climate investigators. We need to know if 2010 is the hottest because it is real or because of the adjustments.
Jon says:
December 3, 2010 at 4:57 am
“Our temperatures in Newfoundland are well above normal for this time of year … but hey it’s just weather :)”
True, around Greenland and eastern Canada the temps are above normal. Appear to be the only place though as the global mean temps are low.
Large parts of Europe are freezing their butts off. Cold records were broken in the Netherlands as well. In Belgium too, I believe. “Normal” for this time of year here is around 7C, temperatures have been sticking around -7 for several days now. And the long term shows less cold temperatures, we will still be well below normal for the coming weeks it seems.
I had a wonderful skiin holiday in Vermont, during the ‘Winter of 96’ and the 4 hours before we landed Boston had snow to 18ins. We landed 1.5 hours late which I had no problem with. In fact I was surprised that Boston Airport had cleared snow so quickly. Part of the ho;iday deal was a car which we drove to Stowe and arrived at midnight after an exciting drive. The following morning the temperature in the town was -30F, which I thought was a bit cold, and the car would not start. I soon learned from that. The next night that car ran all night and we had a lovely warm car to get into. So -30 is no stranger and we will get more.
One good thing about sub-zero temperatures is that driving on ice becomes the same as driving on gravel. plenty of grip provided your speed is kept fairly low, 30-40 mph.
Keep Warm!!
I know the graph is only for Novembers, but it doesn’t look like there has been much warming over the last century. And seeing as this is close to the Arctic where we are supposed to be seeing major warming – where is it ?
120 car accidents from snow yesterday, in the morning alone, in Berlin—-but we’ve been told snow is a thing of the past
1 minute video
http://preview.weather.com/outlook/videos/much-of-europe-paralyzed-by-snow-18948
Time to return to posts on the Sun and on Landscheidt/Jose/…Minimum. (BTW: In these days “Watts Effect” is needed)
Didn’t AGW predict most warming in the coldest parts of the world? Or did they move the goal posts again?
@Pamela Gray
But what seems to control the jet stream when you look at past history??
It is all the sun… This is the forth year in a row with jet streams being more south than normal over EU coincidencing with the grand solar minimum. I said it last year and the year before that jet streams would continue to move southwards causing colder winters in Europe.
The reason for the heatwave in Russia during this summer, was due to the change in jet streams as well, and similar events have occurred during beginning of previous extended minimums.
My bet is that such winters will be more of the norm over the next decades-century depending on how deep this grand minimum goes.
Bob… No way.
Will R says
I’m sure too Will that those thermometers get swapped every so often to another oral cavity.
PAULO80
What the WMO conveniently neglects to mention in their latest news clippings about Canadian weather and weather in general is that the main reason for the anticipated record temperatures in Canada during 2010 and the warm 2010 winter is the 2009/2010 El Nino .Also we have had 4 El Nino’s during the last 7 years .This is more frequent than in the past when they happened once every 4-7 years. Eight of the last 10 years have been affected by the natural occurring El Nino to some degree. Thus the prime reason for the warm decade and the warm the 2010 winter in Canada is the El Nino. This has very little to do with global warming or increases in greenhouse gas emissions. This weather reporting biased to global warming and geared for the Cancun political meeting. They do not even mention that the global temperatures have been flat now for 10 years and most of the climate anomalies are rapidly dropping .
I figure the reason “record warmth” was recorded is the only places new measurements have been taken is where it is warm. After all, no one want to live in the cold.
Come to think of it, since the end of the cold war, haven’t several measurements from Siberia been removed from the global measurements?
Rule number one with AGW – the warming only ever occurs in remote areas where nobody can verify it. You know the sort of thing, great red blobs over Siberia and the middle of Antarctica.
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