Friday Funny – a glass half hot or half cold?

This is a great post. Made me laugh. Thanks.

It was great (summer like) day in SW London, at least on the river between Richmond and Kingston.

I’ve got snow on the ground in Pullman, WA, USA.

Britain has a temperate climate, you know for sure that it’s summer there when the rain becomes warmer.

Funny stuff.
Note: Please double check your spelling of the name of PhD Commenter.
“Gordon Folks writes in about this humorous headline…”
“Gordon J. Fulks, PhD”
REPLY: Yeah, autocorrect got that when I typed it in, the other part was cut/paste and didn’t have the issue – Anthony

I live in southern England, and I’ve just checked my local forecast online(BBC/Met Office revised at 20.00 tonight).
Highest forecast temps – Saturday pm is 17C, Sunday and Monday is 15C.
Apparently the BBC get cooler weather forecasts than Sky now – standards must be slipping, I can’t imagine what Black will have to say about it.
(I’ve never figured out how to do degree signs!)

It’s been around 20C several times here in the Philly area lately…. It’s been nice but I had not thought to go around saying “omg this is just like the scorching hot Sahara Desert”

Snow may fall in the UK, especially north, before the true spring arrives. Look for a warmish summer ( plus.5C that will fade earlier than normal, then fall is liable to be quite cold. For most of europe winter 12-13 is liable to make 4 in a row with a bout of severe cold.
Global temps against the 30 year mean are at -.145. See link: (http://policlimate.com/climate/ncep_cfsr_t2m_ytd_anom.png)The next 3 months will be .2 to .25 ABOVE normal but we will continue the jagged downward trend and globally as the fall resumes later in the year,and the coldest autumn since 2000 may be shaping up with the fall of the global temp as seen here, since the shift to the cold pdo link:http://policlimate.com/climate/cfsr_t2m_2011.png Next winter will bottom out colder than this past one.

“UK To Be Hot Enough To BOIL WATER This Weekend!!!!!” *
* For those parts of the UK at an altitude above 25 kilometers.

Of course what it _should_ have said was:
“Sahara temperatures plunge to below those in Southern Britain! CRU climatologists are forecasting a tipping point into an ice age. UK South coast ports are on standby for the flood of African refugees.”

It would be fun to compare the night temperatures of South England versus the Sahara. I haven’t been to the Saraha but every desert I’ve been to got pretty cold at night. I can see the headline “Catastrophic global cooling predicted (projected) as night time Saraha desert to face freezing temperatures, even in summer”.

Here in Blighty, the headline forecast for maximum temp is almost always based on central London (probably the office of the BBC’s Chairman!), which is normally 10% warmer than the surrounding areas – UHI?

The UK media has a long tradition of sensationalizing the weather.
The satirical magazine Private Eye, used to run parodies of this kind of reporting under the headline,
Phew, What A Scorcher

Never mind, there’s always a snow fall after the cricket season starts.

“Rosco says:
March 23, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Wow – as hot as 20 – 21 C.
Wonder how all the Brits who migrate to SE Qld survive as during most of summer 20 – 21 is our minimum night time temp ?
Don’t see to many out nightbathing though.”
LOL.
It’s the new definition of warm by the MSM/LSM. AGW/CC re-inventing the wheel stuff. They think the average Joe is stupid and won’t know the difference.
Even temps in an average range are classed as ‘sizzling’. We had some of this crap here over our NZ summer 23-25C was classed as ‘sizzling’

Well it is 22.8 deg C (73F) here (central NC) with the surrounding areas a bit higher. The average for the day is 18.3 °C (65 °F) The record high is 28.3 degrees Celsius (83 °F) (2007)
I have notice for the last couple of years the increased loopyness of the Jet Streams since it has had a profound effect on the weather in my area. http://classic.wunderground.com/US/Region/US/2xpxJetStream.html
Also we have a very “Hot” SST off the coast right now. http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.gif

I think I have this down.
I predict that it will get darker in about 3 hours. Since this proves I am good at scenarios and predictions, I am pretty sure that tomorrow will be warmer than it was in January. Sssssssooooooooo… Global warming.
OMG I should be writing Mann’s research papers for him, let alone UK news science articles.

° → ‘ ☺ ☻
Thanks Brian H.

Got down to 23C in Proserpine (Northish Queensland,) last night, and it was raining… Sizzle away, UK! :-))

“.anybody know who pays the wages of UK weather forecasters (not just bbc) ?”
The Met Office is financed by the Ministry of Defence, could be an agency within the MoD.

Bob Brown and others from his Greens Party are in the Australian Govt!
24 March: Hobart Mercury, Tasmania Australia: Bob sings up a party
THERE was rapturous applause and a fuzzy green glow at the Hobart Town Hall last night as Australian Greens leader Bob Brown took to the stage and sang for the planet.
Senator Brown’s The Earth Song was like a hymn of praise and hope amid a euphoric celebration of the Tasmanian Greens’ 40th birthday….
The Greens’ hero was met with a standing ovation when he delivered the 2012 Green Oration, which called for a single global and democratic parliament.
“Let us create a global democracy and parliament under the grand idea of one planet, one person, one vote, one value,” he said.
Senator Brown said he would call on the world’s 100 Greens parties to back his “earth parliament” at the third global Greens conference in Senegal next week…
http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2012/03/24/312341_tasmania-news.html
23 March: Business Spectator, Australia: Greens celebrate 40 years of survival
Senator Brown received a standing ovation before delivering the third green oration on the theme of global – and, at times, intergalactic – democracy, addressing the party faithful as “fellow earthians”.
“Surely we are not, in this crowded reality of countless other similar planets, the only thinking beings to have turned up,” he said. “Most unlikely.
“So why isn’t life out there contacting us?
“Maybe life has often evolved to intelligence on other planets with biospheres and every time that intelligence, when it became able to alter its environment, did so with catastrophic consequences.
“They have come and gone. And now it’s our turn.”
Senator Brown proposed that a global parliament should be formed with the question ‘Will people a hundred years from now thank us?’ inscribed above its door.
He said its goals should be economy, equality, ecology and eternity.
“Let us determine to bring ourselves together, settle our differences, and shape and realise our common dream for this joyride into the future,” he said.
“In that pursuit, let us create a global democracy and parliament under the grand idea of one planet, one person, one vote, one value.”
With 10 Greens sitting in federal parliament, 25 in state parliaments and more than 100 councillors around the country, the party is a far cry from the United Tasmania Group formed on March 23, 1972, after a confrontation with hydro workers.
The Greens received congratulatory messages from colleagues as far away as Mongolia, while Senator Milne announced Australian Nobel Prize-winning physicist Brian Schmidt as next year’s orator.
http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Greens-celebrate-40-years-of-survival-SNDW5?OpenDocument&src=hp19

Last year at this time the high was only about 65, this year it is about 85. This is said to be higher than “normal”, which is about 75. Funny 65+85/2=75. The average is the “normal” but that doesn’t mean that most years the high is at exactly the normal.

22 March: Fox, Phoenix: Climate Fund Seeks UN-Style Diplomatic Immunity
The Green Climate Fund, which is supposed to help mobilize as much as $100 billion a year to lower global greenhouse gases, is seeking a broad blanket of UN-style immunity that would shield its operations from any kind of legal process, including civil and criminal prosecution, in the countries where it operates.
There is just one problem: it is not part of the United Nations…
A 24-nation interim board of trustees for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) is slated to hold its first meeting next month in Switzerland to organize the fund’s secretariat and to get it running by November, as well as find a permanent home for the GCF’s operations…
But before it is fully operational, the GCF’s creators — 194 countries that belong to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) — want it to be immune from legal challenges and lawsuits, not to mention outside inspections, much like the United Nations itself cannot be affected by decisions rendered by a sovereign nation’s government or judicial system…
http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpps/news/climate-fund-seeks-un-style-diplomatic-immunity-dpgonc-km-20120322_18755189

Well, th’ real problem is that if you get runaway global warming, you’ll hit the Planck temperature before too long. & you’ll wish you hadn’t.

Darn, why is it always that soon as one posts a carefully crafted comment, the mistakes in writing suddenly leap to the eye? Is there some equivalent of “Murphy’s Law” to describe this. OF course, I meant to write “economically”.
@ Joseph Bastardi, you’ve provided a synopsis of the forecast weather patterns for Europe. Does this freakishly warm weather here in Central Canada promise to lead into a warmer than normal summer? Thanks!

68-74 is my comfort zone. Just curious, though, are they comparing UK highs to Sahara highs or highs to lows?

With the thermal mass buffering of this house in Mesa Az the inside temps were 68 to 78F, with the outside being 50 to 88F, with no heat or ac use, just two ceiling fans on slow, and a box fan running on medium in the sun room/ orchid tables. They are loving it!

21 degrees celsius, isn’t that an optimum air-conditioning level ?
it’s 27 in my room – I’ve had the heater on, a bit cooler in the kitchen, and around 21 outwith the building, near adelaide airport.
slightly off topic but I had the good fortune of swimming with ‘ye ancient amphibious society’ (or similar), at Broughty Ferry, scotland. 12 degrees was an acceptable (swimmable) summer day, with the water around 10 degrees. funny how a few minutes later the water felt warm. amazing what you get used to. our training pool is set at 26 degrees, warm enough to work up a sweat.
I recall stories of heatwaves in the UK during the 1960’s that killed people at the catastrophic temperature of 70 farenheit
further off topic, but it was nice to see the girls ripping strips off sherri quammen. cdbdi’s?
also nice to see the cagw labour government in queensland, notorious for it’s corruption , social and economic damage, being slaughtered in the state election.

Who would have thought that there are such similarities between scorching Sarah conditions and UK Springtime.
So far it’s been a cold misty morning with temps around 8C
Anthony you should do a follow up on this prediction!

It is evident that the UK is absolutely resistant to climate disruption: the chicks wear flip flops, miniskirts and show off their bum-cracks and bellies in winter times just the same as in summer times; and they wear UGG boots, whether it is +30C or -30C — Because English chicks are always ‘hot’, no matter what, you know 😉

They just as well have written “as hot as Norway” in the headline. Even in Norway it reached 20C Thursday (22 March). The highest reading was 20.2C, and never ever has 20C been measured in Norway in March. The previous record for 22 March anywhere in the country was 16.0C set in 1946. The previous earliest date for 20C anywhere was 3 April.

It’s even more hilarious when you know that the blocking high will be to the east of the uk and therefore will bring easterly winds on-shore where the sea temp is 6°C. Can’t say I fancy sunbathing at that temp.
It must take these clown hours of searching to find somewhere cooler than London.

This is a report by Louise Gray which I read with disbelief. At the bottom of the column is a direct to the back page weather maps which clearly show the Sahara as hotter than the UK by 10+C. I did email the Editor asking where this girl got her misinformation but got no reply. Never mind Louise has a history of baseless alarmist reports so nothing new there. The Telegraph is getting as bad as the NY Times.

The high yesterday was 80F here in the central Appalachians & I can attest, it was wonderful. I can finally get rid of the double shirts & socks, the long underwear, and open the windows up.
Most yrs, even after warm spells, there’ll be some snow here last of March/first of April. When I was down in VA, there was 8″ wet snow around April 7th 1987, and a whopping 30+” in extreme SW Virginia.

“20 degrees C is 68 degrees F.”
And 72 degrees F is “room temperature”. Brrrrrr…

I’m from South Florida. 68F is cool. 98F is hot.
We did hit 32F in 2010, twice. Killed the majority of Iguanas,( they’re alien anyway). My baby coconut palms froze. I was worried. They’ve recovered though, thankfully.
2010 was the first hard freeze here since 1988. Before that about 1977.
We were 69F here this morning. It was so balmy, I wore a sweater.

My dear Mother, A Liverpudlian, used to say as a child “It’s too hot to eat!”. When I heard this as a child, I asked her: How hot was it? Upper 70s (only Fahrenheit back then). I thought, how ridiculous, That’s not hot.
I was less than 10 y.o.

Its GLOBAL WARMING, I tell you…. Oh, yes it is, don’t argue…. Warmest March since – like – EVAH (well, ‘since records began’, in about 1985)….
(Pilot light keeps going out on my pool heater – s*d it – wanted to get in there this weekend..!)

I like the story. Maybe more people will come to realize that temperature is not the entirety of “climate.” You would hardly say that the UK has a climate comparable to the Sahara.

Well, considering the article was for a United Kingdom audience, it makes sense that they would compare the weather there to somewhere else. If the article was for a Saharan desert audience, then maybe the other comparison would make sense.

John Marshall says:
March 24, 2012 at 3:17 am
I cancelled my subscription to the Daily Telegraph months ago having bought it every day since 1956.
Up until recently it could be relied upon for trustworthy unbiased reportage by educated news staff, but now the brainwashed insipid generation of reporters, ungrounded in their speciality and seemingly devoid of general knowledge to use as checks and balances to their stories, have reached the middle management levels, the paper is not worth diddly squat.
How very, very sad.

update.
17.40
Current temperature London 61F
Current temperature Marrakesh 71.6F

current temperature, Biggin Hill, London 57F
current temperature, Marrakesh. 72F

I caught Bill Illis’ remark in comments at another blog – posted in January of this year. He identified a sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) event. How come no one has discussed how this affects seasonal weather with unseasonal temperatures?
The last such SSW event I recall was in 2008 or so. Similarly, this top-of-the atmosphere weather making event resulted in waves lasting weeks, sending pulses of cold air out from arctic and into the mid-latitudes in February. Then during March, the frigid process reversed for several weeks, resulting in temperatures here in Colorado 20F degrees above normal instead of the reverse. Finally, April reached a more typical balance.
Sadly, the wikipedia page on SSW is short and sketchy, and the one link there is broken. ANTHONY AND MODs: I believe this topic deserves a threadif Bill Illis is correct!

Chuckles says:
March 23, 2012 at 2:37 pm
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Its cold in the Med at the momnent. It was much warmer in December and January. I have had to switch the heating back on. Hopefully, next week the warm weather will return since I have not moved here to be as cold, or is that as hot, as the UK. I want to be at least 10 degC warmer than the UK.

Today Sunday 25 March 2012 in Oz looked up the max temp in the UK and its 16 degrees C. Who’s pullin whos leg?

P Wilson says:
March 25, 2012 at 6:56 am
update. Sunday 25th March. 14.53
current temperature London, UK 50F
current temperature Marrakesh, Morocco. 82F
Is London really as hot as sahara?
The evidence says no
What’s London got to do with it? The Sky News article simply mentions the UK. In NE Scotland the temperature reached 22.8 deg to-day (sunday) which is a record for Scotland. See
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-17506257
The temperature reached 22 deg C across parts of Wales on Saturday (not a record), so that part of the forecast, at least, was correct. The article says nothing about global warming so I’m a bit puzzled by some of the posts.