According to legend, the severity of the upcoming winter can be judged by examining the pattern of brown and black stripes on woolly bear caterpillars
Posted on 08/21/2014 5:47:21 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Parts of Europe and the U.K. are being plagued by one of the coolest August spells in decades.
Forecast high temperatures the next few days were expected to hold in the upper teens to low 20s Celsius (about 62-72 degrees Fahrenheit) over a broad swath from England and Ireland to northern France, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Austria.
"The cool Arctic flow will reach much of central Europe with temperatures 5-6 degrees Celsius below normal," says Leon Brown, meteorologist with The Weather Channel U.K.
A few parts of the Scottish Highlands may struggle to see highs reach 8 degrees C (46 degrees F), nearing monthly cold high temperature records.
According to the U.K. Met Office, the coldest August daily high temperature on record in the U.K. was 8.9 degrees C (48 degrees F) at Lerwick on August 18, 1964, as well as three other locations on August 27-28, 1919. (The record only applies to locations less than 500 meters, or 1,640 feet, above sea level.)
Wednesday's high temperature was 12.1 degrees C (53.8 degrees F) in Lerwick. Scotland's coldest lowland spot was Loch Glascarnoch, with a high of 11.1 degrees C (52.0 degrees F). However, in the Highlands, Caingorm only reached a high of 3.1 degrees C (37.6 degrees F). Factoring in the wind, the U.S.-equivalent wind chill was in the upper teens there at times.
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According to legend, the severity of the upcoming winter can be judged by examining the pattern of brown and black stripes on woolly bear caterpillars
The slowdown continues into another year.
I found an all brown woolly bear - golden brown actually. Nice mild winter? Please, especially after the last one.
very mild summer here in Indiana, cool nights that keep the swimming pool water chilly.
Next week will be the hottest of the year — some days in mid-90’s. This Global warming is tough I tell ya.
As average temperatures drop around the world and winters get colder and longer we will see liberals tie themselves into ever more complex knots to explain how man-made Global Warming is responsible.
Ii would be funny if their insanity wasn’t so damaging and costly.
They mentioned the winter of ‘63-’64 there. I have heard anecdotally that that winter was one of the more severe in the UK.
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Ii would be funny if their insanity wasn’t so damaging and costly.
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Cheers!
Pretty pointless to try and draw any longer-term conclusions from this cool spell, which has only been going on for a week. The summer as a whole here in the UK has been warmer than average (though not exceptional), with a particularly hot July.
Protip: Burn more coal.
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