Reposted from the NoTricksZone
Original title:
Germany’s DWD: May 2021 Among Coldest In 140 Years… Spring 2021 “Clearly Too Cool”
By P Gosselin on 1. June 2021
May, 2021, in Germany comes in as one of the coldest in years.
Also spring, 2021, comes in cooler than normal. Spring in Germany hasn’t warmed at all over the past 30 years
The preliminary results for the meteorological spring (March-May) and the month of May have come in for Germany.
Germany’s May 2021 temperature anomaly (yet to be entered on chart) was 1.4°C below the 1961-1990 reference period mean, making it among the coldest on record. Source: DWD.
Let’s first look at May 2021
Much cooler, wetter and cloudy than normal
According to Germany’s DWD national weather service, using data recorded from some 2000 stations across the country, May’s mean temperature came in at 10.7°C, some 2.4°C cooler than the 1991-2020 mean.
2.4°C colder than mean
Strangely, the DWD compares the May result to the ancient 1961-1990 reference period. By doing so, they determined that the mean May temperature was only 1.4°C too cool. Compared to the current and warmer reference period 1991 to 2020, the deviation was -2.4 degrees.
In the past 30 years, the May mean temperature was lower only in 2010 with 10.4 °C and in 1991 with 9.5 °C. May 2021 was among the coldest on the DWD records. Check it out yourself.
Drenched May
With 95 l/m² of precipitation, May clearly exceeded the 1991-2020 climate mean value of 70 l/m². The mean for the 1961-1990 period was 71 l/m², which tells us things have not changed at all, precipitation-wise in May.
23% less sunshine
May-2021 also saw very little sunshine across Central Europe. With about 165 hours of sunshine in May, it was well below the mean of 202 hours using the period 1961 to 1990. Compared to the new 1991 to 2020 reference period, the negative deviation was about 23 percent less sunshine.
Spring 2021 “clearly too cool”
Looking at the meteorological spring March 1st to May 31st) for Germany, the DWD reports that “spring 2021 was clearly too cool”, despite slightly above average sunshine. Spring hasn’t really warmed in 30 years – a fact that the DWD never brings up.
At 7.2°C, the average temperature in spring 2021 was -1.7°C below the value of the 1991 to 2020 reference period. The decisive factors for the negative deviation were the coldest April in 40 years and the very cool May. The lowest temperature was recorded on April 6 in Meßstetten in the Swabian Alb region with -13.6 °C.
Near normal precipitation
In terms of precipitation in spring 2021, Germany received 175 l/m² precipitation compared with the mean of 171 l/m² for the 1991 to 2020 reference period. While March and April came in too dry, May saw unusually high precipitation compared to the previous years.
Of course, the activist DWD again highlighted the ancient, wetter 1961-1990 reference period, because this allowed them to say spring came in drier than normal for the eighth consecutive year!
Slightly less spring sunshine than average
With about 500 hours, the sunshine duration in spring-2021 was 4% less than the 1991 to 2020 mean. But using the ancient 1961-1990 reference period, spring 2021 was 7% sunnier than “normal”.
In Germany, when reporting on weather averages, the DWD chooses its reference periods based on what trends it wants to convey to the public. Using the 1961-1990 period allows the DWD to make it look like its getting warmer and drier.
Of course Germans get ther weather from what the good german weatherfrau says on telly. Going outside with a thermometer isnt on the cards
going outside with a thermometer to record things for yourself and make your own conclusions would be considered racist here in the US.
“…Racist here in the US.” Joel, don’t worry, President Biden says he is going to create “racial wealth equity”, which means we all get the same salary as Lebron James. Don’t wait for it.
Joey promises Venezuelan and Cuban equality for the USA….he will put his son Hunter in charge of the program.
Y’know, you could post a spew warning, Anti-Griff!
What the heck does this have to do with climate? Like you I believe it is exaggerated but your comment mentioning Mr. James shows something else.
Yeah, but I do that anyway, Joey, so what are the whiners gonna do?
In Canada it would be considered racist and anti-science (the fine arts graduates at CBC are the official arbiters of what constitutes both racism and science in Canada)
Personally using a thermometer is a white, male, objective, empirical act of oppression. So I’m told.
And thermometers are obviously phallic symbols, so sexist as well.
I checked the DWD site and it says 40 years (versus 140 years) — but it’s still cold … https://www.dwd.de/EN/press/press_release/EN/2021/20210429_the_weather_in_germany_in_april_2021.html
Well of course dear boy, that’s why they compared it to 1961 to 1990 the rabbit out of the hat trick, and if that didn’t do the trick another carefully chosen period would have, but they chose the period of the new ice age scare cos that was pretty cold as well.
Climate science is the dog’s bollock’s of post normal post truth science after all.
A reply from Germany:
The page you linked to tells us about April, not about May.
J.-P. D.
Thanks for the clarification.
Germany has obviously decided to increase co2 by burning more Russian natural gas. Too bad co2 doesn’t do squat for temperatures.
Quote:””Much cooler, wetter and cloudy than normal“”
Seems like the warming effect of extra water vapour Green Gas Gas and the well established heating effect of clouds don’t do a lot neither
Apparently getting Germany dependent on Russia was always Stasi Obergruppenführer Merkel’s goal.
Otherwise, one will be as cold as the proverbial hexentitte.
What’s the alternative? Burning US LNG at three times the price per BTU?
Heaven forbid that they drill for their own plentiful natural gas.
One thing is certain – no cold temps will stop Merkel from her goal to Zuck Germany up.
and build new brown coals stations to make up for shutting down Nuclear – government reaction without understanding the implications
and when the wind dont blow bring in large dirty eastern european coal fired power from Poland etc
Wasn’t the only place, 30th of may was the last time my central heating was on at night.
9/10 oclock when it got cold all thru may, still after a bit of jiggery pokery and the twiddling of a few knobs i’m sure that globally may will turn out ok for the climate fantasist’s and end up being quite warm……officially once the nasa bod’s get in on the act.
Then in a few weeks half the globe that had a cold spring will be convinced it was actually quite warm by their local climate high priests, who have the memory span of gold fish.
I thought we were done for the winter as well, but I turned the heat back on for Sunday. Outside was 47°F and inside was 65°F, a little too chilly for my old bones.
The temperature went down to 29F and 31 F here (S. Wis.) Friday and Saturday nights. Even though covered some of our annuals got frost bite. Very unusual as its almost always safe to plant here the week before Memorial Day.
Welp, I still have the furnace running because if I don’t, my cat will stare at me and refuse to associate with me, and besides, it was not outdoor camping weather last night.
3rd of June and still running the furnace this morning. Overnight temp was 50F at midnight here in my kingdom.
I hear the mammoths are having a conference to vote on restarting the Large Mammal Array because no one will be allowed to hunt them.
Off topic, sorry- but if anyone likes to read green energy news until your brain hurts- check out https://energynews.us/. It is a good source to see what the climatistas are thinking.
And not only there.
https://electroverse.net/rare-level-5-snowfall-warning-issued-in-south-africa/
https://electroverse.net/delhi-india-suffers-its-coldest-june-temperature-ever-recorded/
Given the 0.8 degree global temperature drop over the past 5 years, we now have 1.3 degrees left before we we reach the terminal event of the almost-tipping point of 1.5 degrees. Phew! That was close.
Yippee, that means greta can go back to school.
How dare you!
Well someone had to say it.
Here in England we have also had a cool and wet May. With 4 nights of frost during the month in my local area.
I didnt mind the wet part, topped up my outdoor fish tank to full for the coming heat wave, or as it used to be known summer.
It was the cold april and may i didn’t like, i used over a 1000 litres of oil this last winter/spring.
Good for the plants but not good for the pocket.
My gas bill is not too bad, but I should not be running the furnace in June. This is abnormal, period.
Not abnormal, just cyclical. Most of us have only ever known the pleasant weather of a warm period in the climate cycle, so the weather we’re experiencing as we leave it comes as a bit of a shock. We’ll have to learn the lessons of previous generations as we head into the not so nice weather of the cold period. It’ll be a learning curve but hopefully someone will document it for the coming generations so they know what’s in store for their future and don’t make the same mistakes the climate enthusiasts have made and are still making.
Possibly cyclical, yes. I do live quite a bit north of where the weather turns pleasantly warm in the Spring, but those people down south of me are also having chilly weather.
Oh, well, better a chilly 50F than an overheated 90F this time of year. Save that for August.
In UK a cold and miserable May to go with a record cold April. Let us see how the Met Office spins it
So far they’ve completely ignored it – a complete absence of reaction. Obviously haven’t received instruction on how this is to be explained away so they do nothing.
I still have my Hudson Bay blanket on my bed here in Virginia Beach. Unprecedented!
Must’ve been a great month for producing solar energy! I’m sure they don’t miss the nukes they shut down.
For what it’s worth they have had a pretty good month for solar, wind turbines went way down though.
On the 9th, all of German solar power managed to produce just over 30GW from ~10:30am to 2:30pm, everybody clapped. To see that again they had to wait right up until the last two days of the month, and again it only lasted 4-5 hrs.
This has happened only 11 times since the beginning of the year, Germany has 56GW of solar power installed.
Windmills spent two weeks having difficulty producing 10GW out of an installed park of 63GW.
This, as they like to say, is the future.
You don’t produce GW (that’s capacity). You should quote GWh or MWh or kWh. But I gather you mean to say that 1/6 of its installed capacity has been used in those 2 weeks. So they probably produced: 14 days x 24 hours x 10 GW = 3360 GWh
14 days x 24 hours??
Climate Believer: “Windmills spent two weeks having difficulty producing 10GW out of an installed park of 63GW.”
Two weeks = 14 days. What is wrong with that?
Don’t worry. June will be warmer than average, which will be explained by globull wurming.
Globalist warming.
dont you mean a wind mill whirring or is it the electrons humming on there way through the power interconnectors
Does anyone on this website actually believe that regional weather over a month in Germany signals a global climatic trend? Put another way, is there anyone here who believes based on the past couple of months that the planet has just entered a long term cooling period?
It is just the FACT that climate scammers proclaim every heatwave or warmer than normal period on a trace gas. Then they stay silent on weather that doesn’t support their feaud.
At least the 2021 summer will be fresh and certainely wet, beside all warnings during the last weeks in Germany we are in a drought and it gets worse.
It isn’t just going on in Germany, Weekly. I am still running the furnace to keep my house warm and it is June. I have spent my entire life in the midwest USA and have NEVER EVER had to have heating equipment running when it’s the begining of June, and nearly summer.
Has it occurred to you that perhaps a weak return to solar activity may have something to do with it? If it’s one year, it’s weather. If it turns into 5 and then 10 years, it’s a trend. Could be a fluke and just weather, but it is NOT just Germany that is experiencing abnormal cool weather this time.
No one here believes that a bit of strange weather makes a climate…those beliefs belong to the warming crowd. HOWEVER, when we are TOLD it’s a FACT that CO2 induced warming has completely overwhelmed any natural behavior, and it’s a FACT that CO2 being released in the atmosphere is still growing rapidly, it’s a bit of a mystery to us moderate folks how the temperature suddenly drops to near old records.
This would indicate that CO2 plays much less of a part in temperature control than we are being told…yes?
Can you say “strawman argument”?
I knew you could.
Although, cooling is certainly possible, which goes against Warmunist ideology. We might, in fact already be in a cooling period, but it could take a few years to know.
Right on the nose, Bruce. It has to be several years, not just one or two seasons, or late spring and early winter, one time. Consistency is important, period.
Bruce, my comment a few years ago was that it would take until about mid-2020s before we would learn if cyclical changes would dominate.
North America has been in a cooling trend since the 1930’s.
I think there are several indications that would illustrate such a point. The warming of the 80’s increasing in step changes after each El Nino and now the beginnings of the La Nina decreases should show that the hiatus of the 2000-2020 area was the top of the curve and now we’re going down the far side. There are distinctive patterns in North Atlantic temperature records that show a series of cyclical changes from a warm period into a cold period and back again.
What we’re experiencing is just weather – exactly like the warm period of the 80’s but in reverse. We can either look at what is happening and state that our pleasant warm period may be coming to an end and calmly prepare for colder weather, or throw a tantrum, scream “It’s so unfair”, behave like children and wonder why it’s getting colder and people are starting to freeze in their thousands. Your choice, pal – but make it a good one, you’ll have to live (or not) by it.
If it were warmer than usual teh AGW crowd would spin it as Climnate Not weather. Let us enjoy a bit of reverse schadenfreude or something
Weakly, just taking a page out of your playback. And you CAN’T STAND IT!
G’day Weekly-rise,
I don’t know about “...has just entered a long term cooling period.”
But, over the past 20 or so years it seems that there have been a lot more new low temperature records set compared to record high temperatures.
Record highs? A number of claims investigated and disallowed – such as a truck with a running motor parked within feet of a temperature station. High temps measured beside an airport taxiway. And others, WUWT has a number of articles on the subject.
“Spring 2021 in central England ended up with a mean temperature of 7.92°C which was 0.32°C below the 1961-1990 LTA which made it the coldest spring in the series since 2013.”
https://www.centralenglandtemperature.co.uk/spring-mam-2021-an-average-spring/
In France the spring (MAM) average was 11.6 C, the coldest since 2013 (10.31C) as well.
France is still chilled? Okay, but how are the grapes holding up????? And what about further south, in Tuscany? Anything from there?
Depending on the region some vines have flowered again. some not, but there is plenty of stock, Italy not sure where they re at.
Tierra del Fuego in Argentinia need some AGW
Ups, what happens in the southern hemisphere ?
What about the solar panels on roofs over there?
“Germany’s May Among Coldest In 140 Years”
I suppose you could say that of many years. But to put real figures on it, they say
“In the past 30 years, the May mean temperature was lower only in 2010 with 10.4 °C and in 1991 with 9.5 °C.”
So it is the coldest since 11 years ago. Wow!.
“Spring in Germany hasn’t warmed at all over the past 30 years”
but
“Strangely, the DWD compares the May result to the ancient 1961-1990 reference period. By doing so, they determined that the mean May temperature was only 1.4°C too cool. Compared to the current and warmer reference period 1991 to 2020, the deviation was -2.4 degrees.”
If the 30-yr period has gone up 1°C, May has certainly been warming (as the graph shows).
At least May 2021 is to find among the ten coldest since 1861.
And it’s not over now in June:
Sorry, typo, 1881
Umm, Nick – “the ancient 1961-1990 reference period.”????? ANCIENT, because it’s 60 years ago????
Are you NUTZ, Nicky????
Ancient history is the Roman Warm Period, you sap. When the Tiber froze, because all of Europe was going through a very rough period of BAD WEATHER and the Roman Army in northern Europe literally had to get out of the way of a large group of Germanic tribal people because the Rhine had frozen over. IT happens, and it’s just WEATHER. Most of that time in ANCIENT HISTORY was part of the Roman Warm Period.
Here’s a reference link for you. Try reading some REAL stuff occasionally, willya? You’re being ridiculous, and I mean EVERY word of that. 1961 is NOT ANCIENT HISTORY, and will NOT be ANCIENT HISTORY until some archaeologist digs up what used to be London 2000 years from now.
“Umm, Nick”
Umm, Sara, did you not notice the quotation marks? Which I emphasise with italics? I was quoting the head post. They are not my words.
To be fair, Sara, with the modern view of history “ancient” is anything predating 2000.
To be fair to Pierre Gosselin, I think he is using “ancient” in the French way, ie former.
Nick, quit blowing smoke. You Shirley know that the WMO specifies the latest 30-year period (ending on a beginning decade) as the latest climatic normal.
I was simply quoting the two thirty year periods to show the warming that has occurred.
Nick, how much warming has occurred from the onset of the Holocene to today? More to the point, what role did CO2 play?
This post is about warming in Germany in May. The post did not include Holocene data.
“The post did not include Holocene data.”
That you conveniently ignore at every given opportunity because said data blows your narrative clean our of the water as evidenced in your reply.
OK, for balance lets include the early 20th Century warming to show temperature increases are not dependent on CO2 increases. While we are at it, why don’t we show the early 21st Century flat-lining of temperatures even in face of rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations.
Educate, don’t indoctrinate.
It was the had post which said, as I quoted,
“Spring in Germany hasn’t warmed at all over the past 30 years”
I just pointed out that that was contradicted by their own text.
No, the text said May 2021 low temperature was only exceeded (lower) by two years in the past 30 years. The head post said: “Original title:
Germany’s DWD: May 2021 Among Coldest In 140 Years… Spring 2021 “Clearly Too Cool”
Later, in the text: “Looking at the meteorological spring March 1st to May 31st) for Germany, the DWD reports that “spring 2021 was clearly too cool”, despite slightly above average sunshine. Spring hasn’t really warmed in 30 years – a fact that the DWD never brings up.
At 7.2°C, the average temperature in spring 2021 was -1.7°C below the value of the 1991 to 2020 reference period. The decisive factors for the negative deviation were the coldest April in 40 years and the very cool May. The lowest temperature was recorded on April 6 in Meßstetten in the Swabian Alb region with -13.6 °C.”
Your continued blowing smoke is not adding to the discussion, Nick.
No, Nick, you were trying to insert an obsolete climatic period from an earlier, cooler period. If you are going back in time to cherry pick periods, give the full context of varying cooling and warming periods to avoid accusations of propagandizing.
I inserted nothing. The two periods I quoted were straight from Gosselin’s text.
I’m done playing word games. Bye.
Why would you only use 30 years when more data is available. Clearly brushing an agenda.
I was taught in Geography that 30 years is just a starting point for climatic averages.
“Why would you only use 30 years when more data is available.”
I doubt our resident alarmists will answer that question so I’ll be happy to fill in for them. The reason is because if you go back in time, let’s say to the beginning of the Holocene, anyone who isn’t totally brainwashed with alarmist claptrap and prognostications of imminent doom will clearly see that nothing unprecedented is going on with today’s climate. This should destroy their arguments, but world control is at stake, so they carry on like good little zombies.
Germany is freaking cold. I was in Berlin late 80s and any time it was above 60F and not raining all the parks would be packed with people.
We are experiencing global cooling and have been for the past three decades. I have been paying attention and that is my observation. We are being duped by the globalists who use climate and now, pandemics to get more control over us.
TIME TO PUSH BACK .. or lose our freedom eh?
Reading through the 43 comments I noticed that everyone had failed to understand that cold weather is caused by global warming. This has been explained numerous times..so there you go/sarc
“Global warming can cause Europe’s harsh winter weather Climate deniers are using a spell of unusually cold weather in Europe to incorrectly argue that CO2 emissions are not warming the planet”.
Can’t be, some climate trolls on this site said otherwise.
At this rate Germans are going to start thinking and studying for themselves–like what back to back very low solar minimums do to the NH temps and jet stream pattern and strength. Make that some Germans.
Many scientists have abandoned the anthropogenic
global warmingclimate change hysteria. Having lost the backing of the scientific community, the catastrophic anthropogenic climate change religionists roped in an undersized, under developed truant girl in their stead. Greta Thunberg never attended science lessons, but learned how not to smile and look angry instead, while lacking intelligence most probably because she was and is undernourished as a result of the vegan diet that her vegan parents imposed on her. Greta Thunberg is now the goddess of the climate change religion. Children are now being offered as sacrifice to this new goddess, the sacrifice being not attending school thus remaining ignorant about everything, thus being more prone to indoctrination by the globalists.Personally looking forward to a small but great Mosel/Saar/Rhine/Ruwer wine vintage! Assuming that not too many Teslas were burned to save the vinyards.
Its because of man made global warming. The more man keeps warming the planet with CO2 the colder it gets. Greta Said so.
We get that much rain in a single storm.
of course in the US you must have the politically correct front desk people
two african american females – one to do the weather report
one african american male – the anchorperson (need to be politically correct)
one white female – obviously need a white person
and typically no latinos
seems each channel, NBC, CNBC etc all have the same formula
and then the weather is just a weather in your location
detail is not a requirement as long as you can throw in the phrase climate change
It’s due to “global warming” . . . you know, the meme that is all things to all people.
Yes.
Its just weather, isn’t it?
that’s what this site would say if we had another record heatwave…
Yes it is just weather. So how about you don’t get your panties in a wad as you do every time the weather is warmer than normal.
Germany and England were in one of two small noticeably anomously cool areas of the world in May 2021. There is a global map of May temperature anomaly (re: 1991-2020 baseline) in the satellite-measured lower troposphere according to UAH in: https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/ A part of Germany, a part of France and a part of England had the world’s cold spot of temperature anomaly according to this in May 2021, with temperature anomaly -2.5 degrees C and slightly colder.
Just use VW cheat software to alter the thermostat remotely, in contrast to manually changing it in U.S. Congressional hearing rooms on the day of key presentations.