By P Gosselin
Extended spring like weather also occurred in Europe 50 years ago
It’s been mild across Europe, bringing some relief from the hardships of winter. Yet, the media again is reporting the mild weather as if it’s something bad, which has never happened before. But of course, this is not true.
What follows is a newspaper clipping from January 14, 21974, published in ‘Die Welt‘:
Hat-tip: Michael Sehlert at Facebook
The Die Welt article reported 50 years ago (temps are in Celsius):
Spring in Winter – 15 degrees warm
The ‘spring in winter’, which has been ongoing for weeks, has reached a new high point on Sunday. The temperatures climbed in some Alps valleys and in the Bavarian lowland up to 15 degrees amid a strong foehn pattern. The thaw has reached to high elevations. Even on the Zugspitze, Germany’s tallest mountain, a sensational temperature of 0 degrees was reached in January. Up to 10 degrees was even measured at 2000 meters. The ski slopes at lower elevations were no longer usable.”
(But shhhhhhh….you’re not supposed to know this.)
“reporting the mild weather as if it’s something bad”
..is something we hear on a daily, nay hourly, basis:
“Sunday’s temperature is a January record”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/28/highest-ever-january-temperature-uk/
“UK weather: Warmest ever January temperature record rises “
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-weather-warmest-ever-january-temperature-record-rises-to-nearly-20c-13059503
etc.
The media doesn’t reach for hyperbole on rare occasion, it’s baked into everything they do, now. And once you’ve upped the ante you cannot go back on it, or can you?
“Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are ditching Labour’s flagship policy pledge to spend £28bn a year on green investment, party sources have said.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/01/labour-to-ditch-annual-green-investment-pledge-party-sources-say
Time for a song; yes it’s cliche, but it’s still funny.
from the Sky link:”” The Foehn Effect only causes small pockets of unusual heat and is hard to forecast,
Nothing. Could. Be. More. Wrong.
Every large continent now exists under a near constant Foehn Effect (check that clock-like thing hanging off the wall in your hallway) and is the primary reason thermometers ‘most everywhere are doing what they’re doing.
Worse: The Foehn Effect is = Escaping Heat.
It is = global cooling
Sky is beyond a joke, but then aren’t they all
A really funny movie!
The wouldn’t dare make it today…
Where are the required images of Crocus breaking though the leaves and other detritus, “early this year — a sure sign of Spring.”
Well in UK my Snowdrops are in full flood since last weekend…and the Viburnum bodnantenseis looking good….we are staggering down the roller coaster ride of winter towards a hopeful spring, but there is probably some hard weather ahead. Ive definitely seen warmer, but Ive definitely seen colder.
TLDR? Bloody normal sort of winter, Dull, boring, miserable, grey and wet, just like our prime minister…
I think it is very unfair of you to use facts to disprove green arguments!!
HOW DARE YOU!
Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary – in January – that the weather felt more like May or June.
This was in the 17th century. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think SUV’s or mass air travel had really taken off in the 17th century….
Chris
Fake news! No touchphones then so it didn’t happen. Tap anywhere now for the dooming.
Well, just because it has happened before doesn’t make it normal,it is just extremely unusual territory, in theory’ish:
https://www.9news.com/article/weather/weather-colorado/warm-winter-weeks-climate-change/73-4b968315-6a18-4619-9409-64eab4903d3b
from the link
“Wednesday was Denver’s fourth consecutive 60-degree January day.”
Wow, how horrible! It’s clearly an emergency, a crisis, a disaster!
Wokeorado!
From the article: “It’s been mild across Europe, bringing some relief from the hardships of winter.”
https://earth.nullschool.net/#2024/02/02/1400Z/wind/isobaric/500hPa/overlay=temp/orthographic=-14.91,37.54,264
Nullschool shows the reason Europe is having mild winter weather: The cold arctic air is confined to the north at the moment. and Europe is getting mild, Atlantic ocean air coming across.
The same with the U.S.: The arctic air is pushed north and mild Pacific air is blowing across the United States.
Punxsutawney Phil, the weather-predicting Groundhog, predicted this morning that we will have an early Spring for this year.
Janice Dean, the Weather Machine, says Punxsutawney Phil predicts “six more weeks of winter” 82 percent of the time.
P. Phil gets it right about 1/3 of the time. Flipping a coin would do better, but much less fun.
Full discloser: I am from that region, raised 25 miles away. Locals call the place Punxsy.
It looked like everyone was having a good time this morning.
Heh. I thought he was about 50-50.
Maybe he went to school and got taught how to use models. 😆😅
We have our own ground hog in Wisconsin – Jimmy in Sun Prairie. Of course the prediction – 6 more weeks of winter if he sees his shadow or and early spring if he doesn’t is a great joke – around here 6 weeks of winter from Feb. 2 would be an early spring. We don’t see spring until May.
TLDR. Warm wet and full of wind
Oh bobbins. This is what I meant to post
In the middle of North America there has been an episodic weather phenomenon called “The January Thaw” {bonspiel thaw” in the Canadian Prairies; no idea why}. Best I can tell the notion came with the early northern European settlers.
Bonspiel a curling competition in Scotland often lasting a few days held outside.
In Scotland, outdoor bonspiels are now very rare; most lochs that formerly hosted bonspiels, such as Lovh Earn rarely freeze over anymore. The Lake of Menteith Grand Match, also called The Bonspiel, is probably most well known last held in 1979 was between the North and South of Scotland.
Having aarranged an event like that the last thing you want is a thaw
Perfect Utah Wasatch weather right now. Rain in the Valley, snow in the mountains.
Story tip – The SEC Oversteps its Powers on Climate Change – American Thinker
Today is Candlemas day.
Here in the UK we have a weather saying about it.
“lf Candlemas is clear and bright
then winter will live to have a other fight”
“But if its clouds and rain
then winter’s gone and won’t come again”
Today here in N Linc’s England its been cloudy bright.
So we maybe not done with winter just yet.
And here in the US west coast, we had the dreaded “atmospheric river”…. I swear, this turning of the weather into a huge bogey man makes me sick. Oh, to go back to the days when storms were just storms, rain was rain, wind was wind, and warm weather was, well, warm weather.
Back in those days there were no “bomb cyclones”, “atmospheric rivers”, derechos or any other exotic (and scary) sounding names given to weather phenomena by the media. Now those terms may have been used by scientists among themselves, but they weren’t trumpeted by the media.
And as for that atmospheric “river”, apparently no one seems to understand that deserts do indeed flood at times. Heavy rains and very dry, often sandy soil are the perfect recipe for floods. It matters not whether humans build things in the pathways of these seasonal floods. They will continue to happen regardless of anything we do (or don’t do).
I came to Vancouver Island for the second time in February of 1969 from Montreal, when I arrived I was wandering around in shirtsleeves wondering why all the locals were bundled up in parkas. Fifty odd years later the weather is exactly the same as it was then, I still wander around in shirtsleeves, although increasing age has introduced a fleece vest, and the locals still wear parkas in February. The climate then is unchanged as far as I and the locals are concerned, I think it quite warm and they, and my wife, think it’s cold. The Koppen zone doesn’t care and remains unchanged.
and when this article was written, wasn’t it an ‘ice age’ that was the climate catastrophe that was being predicted?
huh