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
The NAO index is decreasing again. It has been strongly negative since December 09.
http://ioc3.unesco.org/oopc/state_of_the_ocean/atm/nao.php
It is starting to look like the 1955-1980 period when we had our last global cooling scare.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Winter-NAO-Index.svg
I live in Voss, Western Norway in the inland. Today we broke the 20 C minus mark. In the weekend they expect some snow, so the temperature will warm up a little bit. Then next week the same clear and cold weather will return.
This is from the local newspaper. Google translation is amazing. This paper is written in the local language which is a form of old rural Norwegian which therefore is called “New Norwegian”and Google is able to translate it
Cold in Voss
As many have notiece, the Met office and other warmist organisations have pointed out that it would be even colder were it not for man made global warming. The logic goes like this:
The global averaged temperature is as warm as the 1998 previous record. But that was caused by the mother of all El Ninos. This El Nino is smaller by far, so, everything else being equal, the global temperature should be lower than 1998. Therefore, co2 has warmed the planet.
See if you can spot the flaws in the argument (hint: it has something to do with the phrase ‘everything else being equal.’)
I live in Norway too. I am glad I have a car.
AGW Fossil Fuel Progress Report: Coal Black Again.
Coal is hot “as lower-than-usual temperatures in Europe pushed up heating demand.”
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“Coal Set for Biggest Weekly Gain in 7 Months on European Cold”
“Benchmark European coal derivatives rose, heading for the biggest weekly gain in more than seven months and this year’s highest close as lower-than-usual temperatures in Europe pushed up heating demand.
Berlin will be as cold as minus 10 degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit) tomorrow, compared with a December mean of minus 0.4 to 4.4 degrees from 1971 to 2000, information on the World Meteorological Organization’s website shows. The U.K.’s earliest widespread snowfall since 1993 has disrupted road and rail traffic, with icy weather likely to last until at least Dec. 8, according to private forecaster British Weather Services.
“Some extremely cold weather in Europe has fired up energy markets in Europe, bolstered demand and” pushed up prices, Sydney-based Citigroup Global Markets analysts Daniel Hynes and Alan Heap said in a report today. “With forecasts indicating the cold snap to continue into the foreseeable future and China on the verge of restocking ahead of the New Year, we see potential further upside.”
Coal for delivery to Amsterdam, Rotterdam or Antwerp with settlement next year rose $1.15, or 1 percent, to $111.75 a metric ton at 11:35 a.m. in London. A close at that level would be the highest for 2010 and a 4.6 percent weekly gain, the biggest since April 23. It gained 5.8 percent in November.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-03/coal-set-for-biggest-weekly-gain-in-7-months-highest-2010-close.html
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amicus curiae says:
December 3, 2010 at 4:01 am
and today I hear the cancoons saying 2010 is close to the hottest ever…?
Garethman says in response,
The spelling is Cancun. Therefore a plural or indication of belonging would not be spelt in the way indicated above. I am not not sure why it has been spelt in a way that could suggest a racist insult, but hopefully it is a one off and will not be repeated.
The Cancun conference is likely to be a shambles left to it’s own devices without our group using such dodgy terminology and giving the catastrophists ammunition.
The cold is clearly due to the algore effect, with the Cancun meeting underway.
The CAGW crowd amuses Gaia. She likes to poke them with a stick and then watch them run around.
Nice post. It is really cold here, that is confirmed.
I live ~30km south west of Oslo, and I have an on line weather station in my garden, running home made linux software to read out data every 10 minutes, put the values in a database and post current values and plots to this site
http://arnholm.org/wstation/
It shows plots for last 24 hours, last week and last 30 days (there is a bug causing the “last 30 days” plots to be corrupted around every whole hour, just wait 10 minutes to let it fix itself).
Why is there no ice shown off the coast of Norway in the sea ice reports if it’s so bloody cold there? Is there really no sea ice?
It’s not easy to find a global warming signature in Norway. Unfortunately it’s still too cold here. Where I live, the first snow arrives in October and it disappears during April. As it did 30 years ago.
http://climate4you.com/SnowCover.htm#Snow cover variations in southern Norway since 1896
It would be interesting to know reports, as the one given by Carsten Arnholm, Norway, from all WUWT regulars, so we could know how many degrees below normal temperatures are all over the world. We need a sort of continuous report of the current Solar Minimum.
http://squall.sfsu.edu/scripts/nhemjetstream_model.html
Frank Lansner says:
December 3, 2010 at 6:04 am
Yes its true, some are trying to make carbon-energy guilty for a possible cold winter by saying that the oil-spil in the gulf area would caus a very cold winter in Europe.
The oil spilled into the Gulf cannot be found, except for some on the sea floor. Anyone have pictures of Gulf oil in the Gulf Stream?
I noted in a previous post on the UK winter weather blog that the current cold spell in Europe and Asia could last for 4-5 months at least based on the past indications of SOI. Enviornment Canada prediction for the next 2-4 and even 4-6 for most for CANADA is for below normal weather. Europe will likely be the same in my opinion.
http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/saisons/image_e.html?img=s234fe1t_s
@warren in Minnesota says:
December 3, 2010 at 6:20 am
Minus 4C equals about 22F.
-4C is 24.8F.
Bookmark this site, it converts just about everything! Gallons to koku or even sextarium.
Temperatures from C to F to Kelvin to Reaumur to rankine!
http://www.convert-me.com/en/
Try it, it’s free and you can switch off the adverts.
I have no connection with the site, but I use it a lot.
EM Smith: “And the Pacific is showing decidedly cold…”
Not where I live:
“Weather records are being broken throughout the country by one of the strongest weather systems in the past 50 years…Monthly temperatures for November were more than two degrees above average throughout the South Island, where many long-term November temperature records were broken. It was also 0.5C to 1.2C warmer than usual throughout most of the North Island.”
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/4418027/La-Nina-brings-scorching-summer
“New Zealand has just been through one of its warmest Novembers ever.”
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/november-temperatures-smash-records-3934575
In my experience, human beings tend to be a bit insular in their daily outlook, especially when bad weather strikes. This attitude becomes compounded in the more populous and media-saturated parts of the world, where the echo chamber effect takes over.
Mind you, one also tends to become a bit insular when good weather strikes.
Hmm. Time to fire up the barbie.
This web page correctly saw the cold problem some time ago. WUWT also did a track about this earlier
http://joannenova.com.au/2010/08/is-the-cold-weather-coming/
This may cause whale tale extinction on the Norwegian beaches.
Brendan H,
Here in Alexandra its been the hottest November on record according to NIWA’s adjusted data.
However the raw data from Cliflo shows that it was no different to 1937, 1958, 1985, and possibly cooler than 2007, 2008, and 2009. The highest temperature recorded this november was 31C. That was exceeded in 1937, 1958 and twice in 2008.
This was also the first November since 2001 that we’ve had to light the wood burner because of the cold. Frost and snow on a number of occassions during the month.
This site is interesting:
The warming trend in the Norwegian and Barents Seas (as well as the Arctic overall) is close to its end. The temperature there will level off in the next few years and then start to decline. The transition to a colder climate may be quite sharp.
As the westerlies slow down and the Icelandic low retreats to its more normal position between Iceland and the southern tip of Greenland, the fresh water inflow to the Nordic Sea though Fram Strait decreases. The reduction of fresh, buoyant surface water combined with overall colder temperature in the Arctic decreases water column stability and favors deep convection in the Greenland Sea. This thermohaline ventilation generates overflows to the North Atlantic, which also require a compensating inflow of Atlantic water to the Nordic Seas (Hansen and Osterhus, 2000). This starts a new cycle of warming, deepening of the Icelandic low and its shift eastward.
This could be the start to a new cycle!
http://www.climatelogic.com/trends/north-atlantic/conclusion.html
@Espen
“Espen says:
December 3, 2010 at 6:36 am
About “hottest ever”: Take a look at the GISS anomaly for last winter:”
Someone should also look at how they cherry pick “normal” period these days.
If it is cold they just seem to use a cold period or very long one so their map fits their agenda more.
@JDN
“Why is there no ice shown off the coast of Norway in the sea ice reports if it’s so bloody cold there? Is there really no sea ice?”
Because we are lucky enough to have the jet stream moving all across or coast.
Though i have a feeling this will change over the next years-decades.
Ocean freezing even in northern parts of Norway is pretty much unheard of. Even our fjords stay ice free during the winters.
If New Zealand was going through it’s warmest Spring ever, what was happening in Invercargill?
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/42857/
@JDN
“Why is there no ice shown off the coast of Norway in the sea ice reports if it’s so bloody cold there? Is there really no sea ice?”
Because we are lucky enough to have the gulf stream* moving all across or coast.
Though i have a feeling this will change over the next years-decades.
Ocean freezing even in northern parts of Norway is pretty much unheard of. Even our fjords stay ice free during the winters.
Edit: I sadly wrote jet stream instead of gulf stream.. I would be happy if mods could snip my previous comment. Thanks in advance
Garethman says in response,
The spelling is Cancun. Therefore a plural or indication of belonging would not be spelt in the way indicated above. I am not not sure why it has been spelt in a way that could suggest a racist insult, but hopefully it is a one off and will not be repeated.
You are being hyper sensitive here, aren’t you? Perhaps it reflects the way you think.
I read this as meaning ‘oon’ as in ‘loon’ (loony).
Lunar becomes Loon, in ridicule, and thus Cun becomes Coon.
So the simpletons of Cancun have to be Cancoons. To write Cuncuns would be idiotic, and have no ridicule merit whatsoever. (if one wishes to ridicule, of course).
Stop seeing racism in every knot and wrinkle of language.
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Regards the above comment: I am presuming that everyone knows that Loony came from Lune, the name of our moon. Those who worshipped the Moon (Lune) were said to be mad (loony).
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