Reposted from the NoTricksZone
By P Gosselin on 27. August 2021
Summer snows hit northern hemisphere…
Many parts of Europe have not had much a of a real summer, having seen much cool and wet weather this year.
Days of snow forecast down to 2000 meters in the Austrian Alps
Today the Austrian site heute.de here reports “snow flakes have colored many mountain regions of Austria white overnight” even though we are still in the summer month of August. A low pressure system over Central Europe and is feeding cold air from the north into the Alps.
Heute.de also reports that last night’s mountain snowfall is not just an unusual one-day freak weather event, but that snow will be around over the coming days. “At least until the end of next week, the temperatures will hardly break through the 20-degree mark anywhere.”
“Winter feeling”
According to heute.de: “In large parts of the country, unsettled and cool weather will continue over the weekend. Especially from the Tyrolean lowlands to Mostviertel and Mariazellerland the clouds will dominate and rain will fall frequently. For the first time, winter feeling could arise again, because on the mountain peaks above 2,000 meters snowfall is possible again.”
The summers of 2019 and 2020 were particularly hot and dry across Europe, and climate alarmists boldly professed that the hot weather was climate change. But this year the alarmists have been silent.
“Big news” from Greenland
Meanwhile Greenland snow mass balance reached a “historic level for this time of year”, reported the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE):
Source DMI.
These amazing gains are in addition to those observed in recent years. The tide has turned in Greenland. And this growth trend has accelerated in 2020 – that’s BIG news. This is how glaciers build up. This is also how ice ages begin.
UK had a year with virtually no summer, excluding 3-4 days of what might be considered to be ‘hot’ weather and that was it.
Eek! I’m off to a conference there at the end of the month, better pack some winter woollies and a brolly.
No summer in Belgium,Holland and Luxembourg this year either.Well below average for nearly 2 months now.
In the UK we have seen high twenties but nothing so high as 2020’s thirty six centigrade. Nights have been much, much cooler and the hotspots moved to parts of Scotland in August. It is typical weather for the British Isles with the range of highs to lows for summer 2021 being very similar to temperatures in the 1960’s.
What I have noticed is the UK Met Office appears to be spiking both high and low temperature forecasts by a few degrees above those offered by other weather record providers … is this a new trend in manipulation of people’s minds as in it’s hotter than you think.
That sneaky MagicMolecule™️ is very clever. So Don’t be fooled, climate science says all conceivable outcomes are attributed to The MagicMolecule™️. It’s science.
Groundfrost end June and early July, same Alpine snow, same mid/end August in Germany, even 2m frost the last days in eastern Germany, snowstorms down to lower than 2k m, where the warming is hidden, causing so much damage ?
Why doesn’t CO2 it’s work as always claimed to be responsable ? 😀
Back in January of 1987 I flew to Innsbruck, Austria, for some cross-country skiing through the Alps. Instead of snow-capped peaks I was greeted with green everywhere and daily temps well above freezing. Even in Munich, exiting the airport, the time/temp sign announced 22. That sounded great until I remembered it was Celsius and actually quite warm, just like Portugal this summer…. Back in the USA, JFK Airport was closed by snow and Steamboat Springs was experiencing ideal skiing. Weather, all weather…but a year later Hansen was proclaiming disastrous global warming on the way.
In 1342, the biggest evvah flood afflicted central Europe. 1342 marks the beginning of te Little Ice Age, also marked by the global Plague pandemic.
Just sayin…
Yes, a cooler late summer in parts of N Europe and at higher elevations… but that doesn’t mean we have an ice age coming or that this is unusual weather…
But earlier heatwaves across Lapland, E Europe and Russia, Spain through to Turkey, 40C plus, new records, a truly extra ordinary rainfall in Germany, in line with other recent hotter summers and rain events, THOSE are the real pattern. The rest is just weather.
It’s not heute.de, it’s heute.at
The Anschluss ended in 1945.
For the interest of the other commentators. Here is the webpage of the Austrian Weather/Climate institute (ZAMG):
Especially the climate monitoring section: http://www.zamg.ac.at/cms/de/klima/klima-aktuell/klimamonitoring
Data ist available going back to 1961 with all possibilities to check and compare temperature and precipitation by annual average, seasonal, monthly and daily and by monitoring station. The stations marked as triangle on the map are situated on the top of mountains, the others in cities.
Yeah, recent days where quite cold. Stating -4.4°C in average for 27th of August compared to 1981-2010 average with some parts of Austria even -7.5°C below and this cool temperature already lasting since middle of August (with 4-5 warm days in between). June and July had summer temperature, but spring was also cold. Normally you can jump into the lakes here for swimming by the end of May, when they exceed +20°C but this year it was end of June. So far the average of 2021 is with +0.3 just a small amount over the average of 1981-2010 but clearly the coolest since 2010.
Webcam Zugspitze
https://www.bergfex.de/zugspitze/webcams/c6130/
“Melting” Greenland
Make of this what you will >>> Headline:”World winter barley yield record broken”
What I see is A Record being set by a wide margin, for a crop historically grown on Greenland- a place most especially noted for its balmy tropical weather
I do like this bit:
Quote:”The success came growing the KWS-bred two-row feed variety Tardis using 250kg/ha of nitrogen fertiliser, a five-spray fungicide programme and multiple use of micronutrient foliar feeds.”
How many see what I see in the last 3 words – how many see ‘Soil Erosion’?
PS Of course it will never happen= Admission of Gaia and that ‘she’ lives in all of us.
Because what those temperature graphs should be doing is averaging/weighting the ‘summer’ according to the number of people in whichever ‘climate affected’ region – the Population Region, not ‘Political Region’
Any good Data Miners out there, is anyone up to it?
Somehow I suspect ‘no’
Not for the lack a Data Miners but for the lack of Data
And who has got or not-got the Data good enough to do that analysis?
Answer my own, Wunderground does but otherwise the words ‘Lying By Omission’ spring to mind
edit to PPS
The farmers spray that nutrient stuff on ‘most everything round here.
Don’t imagine the reason the farmers do it has anything to do the insane number of mentally disabled children in the local village?
Are the people also ‘Nutrient Deficient’ – if so, Why?
We were having such a nice, pleasantly cool summer up here in the Midwest and then it just went sour and turned hot, like someone flipped a switch. Humidity levels went up, which doesn’t help at all and my brand new air conditioner has turned out to be inadequate to battle a heat wave.
So you guys over across The Pond stole all that nice, cool weather that made summer pleasant? And it’s snowing in Austria, too?
Could you just send it back over here where I live? I’m melting!!! Oh, well, it’ll end tonight, if NWS is on the money (and they usually are).
The blue curve shows the current season’s surface mass balance measured in gigatonnes (1 Gt is 1 billion tonnes and corresponds to 1 cubic kilometre of water).
The dark grey curve traces the mean value from the period 1981-2010.
The light grey band shows differences from year to year. For any calendar day, the band shows the range over the 30 years (in the period 1981-2010), however with the lowest and highest values for each day omitted.
“This is how glaciers build up. This is also how ice ages begin.”
Lol. Maybe next month.
Or actually maybe not for a few thousand years.
Hilarious. Some people are totally disconnected from reality.
According to JAXA N. H. ice cover data as of Aug 27 2021 we now have 20 years of data for this date 2002 thru 2021
10 years have less ice cover and 9 years more ice cover.
https://moyhu.blogspot.com/p/latest-ice-and-temperature-data.html#ice
Although summer temperatures here in the UK have been above normal ie about 16.5
it has not felt that warm, mainly because of lack of sun, especially in August, I suspect cloudy nights
have helped push up the mean temperatures.
As a keen gardener, I will remember 2021 as a remarkable cold spring, especially April and May
Minimum temps for April were 1C , which was the coldest for over a 100 years.
On checking the warmest summers 1976 still ranks the hottest at 17.77C and 1826 the 2nd warmest
at 17.60
“Extreme Weather” – the grifft that keeps on griffting. If it didn’t exist, they’d have to invent it.
Oh wait….
Met Office failed to calculate the CET (Central England Temperature) properly for over 160 years, until few years ago when someone who post here under name Vuk did show them how it should be done, btw it was documented here on WUWT.
Weather charts for north Europe and the Arctic show that throughout Europe’s “cold in July” cool summer, there have been continual cold air outbreaks from Greenland which have been depressing temperatures in north west Europe. This will continue into Autumn at least:
(5) Dry for the next 7 days, then potentially Low Pressure comes back in? 27th August 2021 – YouTube
The mountains west of calgary are white, month earlier than normal
Tropical cyclones (otherwise known as hurricanes or typhoons depending on location) are claimed to be examples of extreme weather caused by the only thing that causes anything in climate – CO2. (Despite the fact that a warmer world has less equator-pole temperature gradient and thus less – not more – thermodynamic potential energy but never mind that for now.) However another overlooked fact is that tropical cyclones cool the ocean surface due to the vertical mixing they induce. Cold deep water is brought to the surface. This mixing also fertilises the sea surface with upwelled nutrients, increasing plankton primary production. First year oceanography.
This new paper shows that in the last three decades, increasing tropical cyclones have (a) cooled the tropical sea surface by 0.05 C per decade and (b) increased surface concentration of chlorophyll a by 3.7 e-3 mg/m2/decade.
Looks like a negative feedback to me. As a result tropical SST is falling not rising and plankton primary production is rising not falling.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2021GL092574
Another recent study revisits two ocean sites where surface warming was prominent during 2003-2013, namely, the southeast Indian Ocean and southern Pacific Ocean. During 2013-2019 this warming has reversed to cooling:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020GL090889
It’s looking increasingly like the recent warming phenomenon is a north hemisphere thing, driven largely by interhemispheric heat piracy occurring in the Atlantic, connected with the AMOC. But even that is weakening now.