Posted on 12/17/2010 3:04:54 PM PST by Iron Munro
Coldest December since records began as temperatures plummet to minus 10C bringing travel chaos across Britain
Swathes of Britain skidded to a halt today as the big freeze returned - grounding flights, closing rail links and leaving traffic at a standstill.
And tonight the nation was braced for another 10in of snow and yet more sub-zero temperatures - with no let-up in the bitterly cold weather for at least a month, forecasters have warned.
The Arctic conditions are set to last through the Christmas and New Year bank holidays and beyond and as temperatures plummeted to -10c (14f) the Met Office said this December was ‘almost certain’ to become the coldest since records began in 1910.
The latest snowfall carpeted large swathes of Britain today - with up to 5in falling in places - paralysing roads and rail, and forcing airports and schools to close.
Forecasters warned the worst was still to come over the next 24 hours as the heaviest December snowfall for 30 years tightened its grip on the nation once more. The South is expected to be worst hit with up to 10in falling during the course of tomorrow. By the start of next week temperatures are set to fall to as low as -15c (5f). Met Office forecaster Barry Gromett said the average mean temperature for the first two weeks of this month was -0.7c. The coldest ever average for this time of year - recorded in December 1981 - was 0.2c.
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You might want to see this.
Gulf loop current and Gulf Stream Broken Affecting Europes Climate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXUifNpnpfQ
Same here (although not quite 62!) God bless you and yours, and keep your son in law safe.
Question CRZ are you reading Captive Queen by Alison Weir they mention those cold winters in that book
thanks, we really appreciate it.
You know, for some reason, the last box of goodies I sent to him was returned. All the boxes I’ve sent, this is the first to get sent back. The address was ‘undeliverable’. I guess it was bound to happen. We’ve sent 40-50 boxes. So, we’re eating pumpkin candy. I’m not complaining, it’s bound to happen. But, the guys missed out on 10 pounds of candy, and a couple of boxes of zicam. Just what I need, candy. I’ll bet moochelle is besides herself that I’m sending candy to the troops.
Merry Christmas to all!
God doesn’t like the stupid, fraudulent warming summits.
First Denmark, now Mechico, they still don gitit - we are on the mercy of Sun, da heater and lighter.
It’s Global Warming!
It’s getting too cold for all those polar glaciers!
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Their heating systems and building practices aren’t designed for this sort of weather.
OMG! 5 farenheit? Those poor babies! They wouldnt last 3 days in Chicago in December.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2644458/posts
The Earth has a Cold.
You Tube ^ | 12-18-10 | Mr. Gone
I remember being at a meeting with some Germans from Kiel in New Hampshire in early March (late winter) when there was still snow on the ground and they remarked how summer had come three months early. I spent 18 months, including two winters in southern Germany (Stuttgart area) and didn’t think it was particularly cold, but it was dark and gray.
That is the name of the volcano that interrupted travel this year. We all talked about how it would affect this winter’s temperatures, weather, snowfall, etc. Now it is like folks have just mysteriously forgotten it! That volcano is far enough north and geographically situated that its eruption had the ability to affect the weather. It spewed ash for about a month into the northern hemisphere.
Iceland Volcano Could Continue Erupting for More Than a Month, Researcher Says
ScienceDaily (Apr. 18, 2010) — The airspace over much of northern Europe remains shut and the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, is stranded in New York City because of the threat from a volcanic ash plume being belched out of Iceland. How long will the eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano continue and what other kinds of activity can we expect? A volcanologist at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) who has worked extensively in Iceland says a month-long eruption would not be out of the question. But the eruption could also continue for a year or more, he says. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100416193630.htm
4. Other than halting air travel, what other effects can ash clouds have? – The most significant effect is typically to weather. It’s not yet clear whether the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull will affect global weather, but major eruptions in the past certainly have. In 1783, for example, a volcanic fissure in Iceland called “Laki” violently erupted. The sulfur dioxide gases carried with its plume caused increased death rates all over Europe over the next month or two, but that was nothing compared to the meteorological effects. The winter of 1784 was one of the worst on record in both Europe and North America — the Mississippi River even froze at New Orleans! Laki, along with another Icelandic eruption shortly thereafter, had severe effects on crops in France over the next several years, which may have been a contributing factor in the French Revolution of 1789. And if you think that was bad, you should know it wasn’t nearly as significant as the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which caused the Northern Hemisphere to experience “The Year Without a Summer” in 1816. Frost was reported in Connecticut in June, famine was widespread in the U.S. and Europe, and — less importantly, but interestingly — the lousy summer caused Mary Shelley and John Polidori (and their friends) to stay indoors while on vacation, resulting in the novel Frankenstein and the short story The Vampyre.
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/04/6-questions-and-answers-about-the-iceland-volcanic-ash-cloud/
That’s probably it - can’t have the troops enjoying candy!
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Nope. Never heard of it.
But in history books of the sort I mentioned give us deep insight into the types of weather they had. And it was not good, especially since they did not have the ability to overcome disasters like we do now.
OH The book is about Eleanor of Aquitane and her captivey by her second husband Henry 2 of England talk about England have bad winter during last 10 years of Henry 2 life it called Captive Queen by Alison Weir
Good book
And they don'thave snow plows, or even know to shovel their sidewalks before they walk on them so they don't ice up.- this from our daughter who just moved to southern England with her husband who is a native.He only remembers 1 snowfall in his entire childhood.
This is the 2nd this winter, and they had 3-4 last winter too. She said they just don't know how to deal with snow. Two weeks ago 4 inches just about shut the country down.
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