THE RIVER THAMES in London froze over for the first time in 60 years as temperatures plummeted overnight.
By STEVEN BROWN
BBC Weather: UK set for freezing temperatures and snow
For the first time since 1963, parts of the River Thames were frozen over as witnesses spotted seagulls perching on the icy surface in Teddington. The River Great Ouse in Cambridgeshire was also frozen over leaving boats stuck.
It comes as temperatures dropped to below 0C in parts of England.
In Ravensworth, North Yorkshire, temperatures plummeted to -15.3C last night as the UK braced for up to four inches of snow and 50mph gales today.
In Newcastle, families woke up to the city blanketed by snow with the wintry weather also hitting parts of northeast Scotland as well as coastal regions in northeast England.
The Met Office has issued several warnings for snow showers across Scotland with up to 3cm forecast to fall across Angus and Aberdeenshire.
River Thames frozen for the first time in 60 years (Image: Tony Kershaw/SWNS)
Seagulls seen on the ice after Thames freezes (Image: Tony Kershaw/SWNS)
The weather warning read: “Further snow showers, most frequent on Friday night across Angus and Aberdeenshire, becoming fewer and lighter on Saturday morning.
“Fresh accumulations of 1 to 3cm are expected, but locally 5 to 10cm over higher ground of northeast Scotland.
“In addition, icy stretches will form as any partially melted snow refreezes, especially at lower levels.”
The freezing weather comes as 15 weather stations in Britain recorded their lowest temperature ever for February overnight on Wednesday.
If it wasn’t for all this global warming, we would be freezing over here….oh, we are.
From previous posts on wattsup:
The ability to predict is the best objective measure of scientific competence. These climate doomsters have a perfect negative predictive track record – every very-scary climate prediction of the ~fifty they have made in the past has failed to happen.
“MacRae’s Maxim”:
“VIRTUALLY EVERY SCARY PREDICTION BY GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS IS FALSE.”
There is a powerful logic that says that no rational person can be this wrong, this deliberately obtuse, for this long – that they must have a covert agenda. I made this point circa 2009, and that agenda is now fully exposed – it is the Marxist totalitarian “Great Reset” – “you will own nothing, and you’ll be happy!”
The proponents of both the very-scary Global Warming / Climate Change scam and the Covid-19 Lockdown scam know they are lying. Note also how many global “leaders” quickly linked the two scams, stating ”to solve one we have to solve the other”- utter nonsense, not even plausible enough to be specious.
Warmists are clearly hopeless at predictions and climate science.
So what can climate skeptics predict?
20-YEAR LONG TERM FORECAST
In 2002 I (we) predicted solar-driven global cooling to commence circa 2020, and unfortunately that prediction is looking more and more probable – I’d rather be wrong – I’m getting old and hate the cold. The forecast low tonight in Calgary is minus28C; it was minus 31c a few nights back – that’s the temperature, not the wind chill estimate, which would be even colder.
7-MONTH SHORT TERM FORECAST
This formula works reasonably well back to 1982, which is the limit of my data availability.
5. UAH LT Global Temperatures can be predicted ~4 months in the future with just two parameters:
UAHLT (+4 months) = 0.2*Nino34Anomaly + 0.15 – 5*SatoGlobalAerosolOpticalDepth (Figs. 5a and 5b)
6. The sequence is Nino34 Area SST warms, seawater evaporates, Tropical atmospheric humidity increases, Tropical atmospheric temperature warms, Global atmospheric temperature warms, atmospheric CO2 increases (Figs. 6a and 6b).
I wrote in August 2020:
wattsupwiththat.com/2020/08/23/solar-plasma-temperature-is-plunging-should-we-worry/#comment-3068819
“Check out NIno34 temperatures, again down to Minus 0.6C – winter will be cold.”
Nino34 SST anom’s hit minimums of minus1.4C-1.3C in Oct2020 and Nov2020 – global coldest temperatures (+4 months) should be Feb2021 and Mar2021.
[excerpts from]
CO2, GLOBAL WARMING, CLIMATE AND ENERGY
by Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc., M.Eng., June 15, 2019
wattsupwiththat.com/2019/06/15/co2-global-warming-climate-and-energy-2/
If this weather continues, maybe London can restore the “Winter market” on the ice of Tames like back during LIA in the 17th century!
No no can’t be, those are just “Jesus seagulls”
Even better picture
Is there a Dr Viner anywhere about?
I wanted to ask him if he’d seen any snow. 🙂
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9252937/Big-freeze-continues-Britain-told-brace-four-inches-snow-50mph-gales-today.html
I wonder how the “Doom Pixie”, aka Greta, will spin this? How does a CAGW fanatic reconcile this with their burning hell on earth belief?
By Feb. 17, the stratospheric intrusion will extend westward. I predict record low temperatures in the Rocky Mountains.
Siberia is nice and warm though 😉
https://www.kare11.com/article/weather/accuweather/temperatures-plummet-to-minus-73-in-siberia/507-1896c3b4-13be-43f7-b6dd-4b7f0e9f847b
So “Green” electricity is being agreed by SSE and the Government not to work. About time too, but they want to blame the consumers and switch them off! Not me though, I won’t have one of those meters until hell freezes over. Oh dear, perhaps it is, the UK is anyway and certainly a version of hell for us at the moment with Covid “safety” measures.
Limfjorden, North Jutland region of Denmark
Normandy in France
Frozen canal in the UK, Feb 11
Temperature anomalies in Europe.
so all the birdshredders are still and iced over i guess?
My mother always claimed the winter of 1946/47 was more severe than 1962/63. That winter didn’t get bad until the end of January, according to Wikipedia 23 January 1947. The snow lasted until mid-March and was followed by severe flooding when it thawed. In some areas looding only surpassed by recent floods caused by building on flood plains and concrete gardens
The Great Lakes are currently freezing fast.
https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/ice/#currentConditions
Snowstorms in the UK.
Where’s my global warming?
Greta, any comments?
The polar vortex will split again
GFS prognoses tend to forecast a march winter in Europe
OT Russia CC:
https://russiamatters.org/analysis/expert-survey-how-will-climate-change-impact-us-russian-relations
Expert Survey: How Will Climate Change Impact US-Russian Relations?
As the effects of climate change grow more intense each year, attention is shifting to the inevitable geopolitical impacts of a warming planet. In 2020, Russia experienced its warmest winter on record, while the summer saw forest fires rip through Siberia like never before. At the same time, a warming Arctic has opened up previously inaccessible shipping lanes, providing Russia with new economic opportunities. Research by experts like Marshall Burke, deputy director of the Center for Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University, and Russian climate ecologist Nadezhda Tchebakova suggests that Russia is uniquely well-positioned to capitalize on climate change
[more exspurt opinion]
Here is a video of the River Dee at Chester frozen solid during the winter freeze of Christmas 1962.
Will it still be wintry in Europe in March? I’m afraid so. The polar vortex forecast indicates a high NAO.
But what about the wild fires?
Wildfires Rage As Temperatures Plunge | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT (wordpress.com)
A few sheets of thin ice on quiet parts of the river (marinas, locks etc) does not mean:
The Thames Has Frozen
Get a grip people. Get a life while you’re about
Because, what do we see happening?
Apols for a bit of cross threading but…..
What we see here from both sides are Epic New Openings for folks intent on Breaking Your Will
e.g. Police ‘outnumbered’ by
Actually get a Real Load of that, someone seems to think there should be more coppers than civilians. Lord help us.
Could they not have pulled their guns and shot a few, as per they do in the USA?
But but but, that tiny wee problem is already sorted..
my child’s physical and mental health
i.e. Create new police officers while they’re still in cradles
just in case a few escape that net..
Smash their will at their first ever birthday party
Oh no, more got away…lets have their will smashed
How are the New Coders coming along Joe, we need ’em here right now.
And if that ain’t soul-destroying, what is?
Try this or this or this
Meantime, especially if you’re at the BBC, visit some of those ‘cold weather’ reports.
Hit Cntr+F then start typing ‘climate’
Compare to any ‘Hot Weather’ reports you can find
Prepare to be blown away, just like the haha temperature record was at Cambridge