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.
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The timing is perfect there and in the U.S. where the forces of claptrap climate science were preparing their final assault on middle earth…in the midst of a pandemic with mutating virus strains. The potential for policy and climate communication over reach is everywhere.
No, it can’t have anything to do with a multi-cycle solar minimum or AMO turning down, or ENSO, or PDO. It must be the univariate model of CO2 having a bad day.
Just goes to show how little you can depend on gaseous emissions for anything.
How’s the grid doing in Germany?
Ask griff, he thinks to know it better than Germans, and he lives in GB 😀
For the moment, grids are ok
The French grid has peaked up fairly high in recent days. … https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/france/
Climate alarmists are looking very foolish these days …
https://newtube.app/user/RAOB/I97sm2D
I predict a major cooling…………in the rate of climate change warning calls and policy claims.
Mr. MCCrae- Thanks immensely for sticking to your guns and data. I don’t follow individual scientists closely, but you and a couple of others are the only ones who have “stuck to the data” and made usefully accurate predictions BEFORE events such as the return of snow and cold weather to the UK.
The same kind of weather shows signs of returning to the northern USA, as predicted. Just from recollection cold weather in the northern has occurred at roughly 20-30 year intervals 1950’s, ~1978, 1993, 2010, and now 2020’s.
As far as I can tell, and I’m sure you and your colleagues know, that you are the only group with any kind of a positive track record in PREDICTION.
I certainly hope the powers that be take note and use your results, as opposed to doing the bidding of the bilionaires and the “climate clique”.
Darth Vader makes an appearance in Poland.
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/lerc92/the_statue_of_jakub_wejher_the_founder_of_a/
People good at rigging events will have reasons for the cold spell and it will include CO2. It won’t be true but some will turn off their heat if they have it to contribute to saving the world.
Others will have an epiphany and turn the heat on if they have it.
For the first time in my life (a good 7 decades so far) I am seriously considering getting a generator, to have at least some backup heating options (also, the gas heater is an electronic apparatus). We live in the Netherlands and I strongly suspect the NW European politicians of planning and succeeding in more vandalism the coming years.
We can all take comfort in this evidence that the actions of AGW/CAGW alarmists and anti-fossil fuel proponents are finally producing the effect of heading Earth toward another LIA, if not “snowball” climate.
Congratulations . . . way to go, folks! (You too, Joe Biden.)
/sarc off
What has this one weather event got to do with climate?
Don’t you think it’s just a tad hypocritical?
You’re making a rod for your own back.
It’s got nothing to do with climate. It is weather.
But this demonstrates that the weather varies by something like 30°C year on year, everywhere.
While the worst case for AGW climate change is 3°C in 100 years.
We need to adapt to the weather regardless of what resources we use up while trying to control the climate. And as changes in the weather are 10 times as large and 100 times as fast, we don’t need to worry about climate change. We won’t notice the cost of adaptation as we cope with real emergencies every year.
That’s why weather events that clearly prove that AGW is a very small issue should be highlighted.
They helps us prioritise our resources appropriately.
Well said.
No, it’s pointing out the hypocrisy of the alarmists
Of course it’s “weather”. But if it happens again, then next year, then the year after, that is more than weather
it has everything to do with climate science ,that told us for over 30 years no more snow, the models and loud mouth politicians pushing for green energy. for the last 3 years at least particularly in north america winter is getting colder. the only rod being made is firmly in the back of corrupt ipcc science, and the corrupt politicians who pay and rewrite the data and present it to push their agendas.
Weather = test scores; climate = semester average.
Say your child claims he has just made the necessary adjustments to raise his 70 semester average to an 80, and now his test scores will be higher. What’s wrong with that? Well, first, he’s put the cart before the horse. He must first change his test scores before claiming he has raised his average.
On top of that, his next test score is a 60, below his old average. What must his next test score be to achieve the higher average? And most importantly, do you honestly believe he has raised his average?
The Thames freezes…
Sure, AGW,
Not.
It promises to be an unusually cold night in the northern US.
https://www.wunderground.com/weather/KMNROCHE21
Pressure1036.23 hPa
The great lie of climate change is dying and everyone who can think independently can see it. The emperor truly has no clothes!
Guess what the noisy narrative would be if this was about some river that normally froze over, but didn’t this winter.
I have been posting links to the alberta AESO site for the last week to LinkedIn and elsewhere to stir things up, showing our wind assets have gone from zero to 15% max over the previous 7 days, currently at 2%
http://ets.aeso.ca/ets_web/ip/Market/Reports/CSDReportServlet
Brilliant clear sky at noon, 3% from solar assets, duh tilt of the earth
The point is to demonstrate in ways regular people cannot misunderstand how wind and solar are incapable of providing 100% of our power as so many clowns insist
The alarmists would rather this info stay out of mind
7 days below -30c with essentially zero wind and solar would mean a lot of human popsicles
“ 7 days below -30c with essentially zero wind and solar would mean a lot of human popsicles.” You have to remember, that is a feature, not a flaw. To ensure that they and their descendants never suffer any type of deprivation, the elites are stampeding the lemmings over a cliff.
“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.”
An alternative headline for this article might be: “Wintry weather strikes parts of the UK in winter!” Hardly shocking.
There is nothing at all unusual about winter cold spells in the UK. CET, the oldest instrument temperature record in the world, is currently -0.8C cooler than the long term average for February 2021, to date. Well within the normal range: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cet_info_mean.html
As for the Northern Hemisphere, whilst some areas of it are colder than average, overall it was estimated to be +0.5C warmer than average for this date, Feb 13th, compared to the 1979-2000 base period:
O.K but it is now spring in the N.H.
It is a little unusual to be this cold in N.Z., during the hottest month (usually), it being early Autumn here as the poplar leaves do attest.
Never mind , my Eye of Newt almanac predicts a respite from cold from mid- March to mid- April , and then back to cold as the dry continues .
We’ll see.
It is still winter in the NH. NH spring doesn’t start until March. March 1st is the start of meteorological spring; astronomical spring starts on March 20th.
World, only a measly 0.2ºC above a period that starts at the coldest year in nearly a century
You are BENT, TWISTED and RUSTY.
USELESS for any purpose whatsoever.
I am sure the cold weather is caused by climate change. /sarc
This year, winter is milder in southern Asia, but not in the north.
Mediterranean town of Ulcinj under fresh snow
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They are also doing a great job fighting global warming in Oregon and Washington.
A major winter storm is bringing heavy snow and freezing rain to the Pacific Northwest, including the cities of Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. Over 0.8 inch of ice has been reported in some places just south of Portland and 2 to 3 inches of snow have already fallen in both Portland and Seattle, with more expected to come.
Over 200,000 customers are currently without power in Oregon because of the ice.
Yesterday was the best rain over the entire fall winter period to date, here in Northern California.
This series of storms is probably going to eliminate most of the drought in the U.S. For a little while.
I wouldn’t mind a little drought here in NC
Western part of Germany wait for rain over strongly frozen ground on monday morning, later parts in eastern Germany too.
Circulation this mornig will become an adventure.
“The freezing weather comes as 15 weather stations in Britain recorded their lowest temperature ever for February overnight on Wednesday.”
That’s the problem with those pesky automatic digital thermometers and a pitiful thermometer record. They cut both ways doomsters.
And naturally that -22 Feb record at Braemar means no UHI effect-
“With a population of less than a thousand, the small village of Braemar on the edge of the Scottish Highlands in rural Aberdeenshire isn’t the sort of place you would imagine making too many headlines or breaking many records.
But every few years, Braemar finds itself front-page news in several national newspapers.”
Braemar, Aberdeenshire viewpoint (discoveringbritain.org)
Which we’ll find with all 15 of them unless they’ve had a move.
That’s just increasing global temperature causing water to spontaneously “harden” along with various anti-gravity effects that allow seabirds to walk on the “hardened” water.
And I thought walk over water is necessary when unable to swim, but it was AGW 2021 years ago….. Never mind
Oh NO! Does this mean co2 has to start all over again?
it’s so hot that it’s cold… the scientists would never lie.. they’re all above board… are you a science denier?
When it freezes hard enough to walk on, call me…..