Posted on 01/09/2010 8:50:21 AM PST by ricks_place
6 January 2009 (MET Office date error)
In most winters, and certainly those in the last 20 years or so, our winds normally come from the south-west. This means air travels over the relatively warm Atlantic and we get mild conditions in the UK. However, over the past three weeks the Atlantic air has been ‘blocked’ and cold air has been flowing down from the Arctic or the cold winter landmass of Europe.
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The low temperatures in the UK have also been accompanied by snow. This is because areas of low pressure have been running in from the north-east, tracking across the North Sea and picking up moisture along the way, which falls as snow.
However, it is not cold everywhere in the world. North-east America, Canada, North Africa, the Mediterranean, and south-west Asia have all seen temperatures above normal – in many places by more than 5 °C, and in parts of northern Canada, by more than 10 °C.
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Is it colder than average?
The mean UK temperature for December was 2.1 °C, making it the coldest for 14 years and colder than the long-term average for December of 4.2 °C. However, December was one of only two months in 2009 which had a below-average mean temperature.
What does this say about climate change?
Climate change is taking place as the earth continues to warm up.In the UK, 2009 as a whole was the 14th-warmest on record (since 1914). This above-average temperature trend was reflected globally, with 2009 being the fifth-warmest year on the global record (since 1850).
The current cold weather in the UK is part of the normal regional variations that take place in the winter season. It doesn’t tell us anything about climate change, which has to be looked at in a global context and over longer periods of time.
The MET Office is very clever in their use of a non-linear temperature scale to exaggerate their invented temperature anomalies.
| Record Events for Sat Jan 2, 2010 through Fri Jan 8, 2010 | |
| Total Records: | 2450 |
| Rainfall: | 304 |
| Snowfall: | 761 |
| High Temperatures: | 27 |
| Low Temperatures: | 528 |
| Lowest Max Temperatures: | 751 |
| Highest Min Temperatures: | 79 |
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Why obviously the cold weather is being caused by global cooling, er global warming, uh that is climate change.
Why the cold weather?
Global Warming, of course.
Man, how stupid can people be???
The answer is obvious. This cold snap is more proof of global warming.
global warming...
IBIGWF!
When I was a kid, we used to call this........winter.
Why the cold weather?
Lack of funding.
God's wicked and wonderful sense of humor-----
Everyone knows that ANY change in the weather is caused by global warming.
And as Sen Graham said, there’s a lot of money to be made.
Daisy, I love your tag line.
thanks...it took me about 30 tries to squeeze it in the space allotted!
:)
Just an expectable anomaly. Nothing to see here folks, move along!
Even surface readings do not tell much taken of themselves. Back in physics and chemistry of old, we were taught there was a certain “specific heat” associated with a given temperature change of various substances. There were also “specific heats” associated with moisture phase changes such as condensation, evaporation, freezing, and thawing. Without knowing the makeup of the atmosphere at an observation point, we can’t state how much its thermal energy has changed from one observation time to another.
This kind of mumbo jumbo, if anything, decreases what little respect I would have for the warmists. It could be more “hide the decline” for all we can tell.
Amen. I am waiting for Him to turn his attention to the dime-a-dozen Herods misgoverning so many nations at present.
This is out 3rd consecutive day in a row under freezing, very rare for Dallas. It’s already snowed twice and the low last night was the lowest since 1996. It’s this way all over the US. So the MET office says temps are higher than normal in the US? Are we gonna believe them or our lying reality?
Without reading, let me guess.
GW?
So no matter what the weather is it's still global warming?
In the UK, 2009 as a whole was the 14th-warmest on record (since 1914). This above-average temperature trend was reflected globally, with 2009 being the fifth-warmest year on the global record (since 1850).
I don't know, I'm no meteorologist but I was working outside all summer and even in July it wasn't really hot. There were days I was wearing a sweatshirt. Ahhh what am I thinking, believing my lying senses over the officials on Planet Gore.
Uh, let me guess. It's winter?
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