Forecasters say it will turn much colder in the UK this weekend, with unseasonable frost and sub-zero temperatures in some areas.
“It’s all thanks to a cold front slowly moving southwards across the UK on Friday,” said Sky weather presenter Nazaneen Ghaffar. “This will bring with it colder air into northern areas.
It’ll be chilly for Scotland and Northern Ireland and northern Scotland could see a few wintry showers.
“On Saturday again some wintry showers are likely over the hills of Scotland.”
Flood warnings and alerts remain in place, with some rivers set to reach their peaks.
See entire article:
http://news.sky.com/home/uk-news/article/16220251
Thanks to Robert van DeLeur for this liink
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Is there still a drought?
Just read the complete article. Droughts not over yet.
The only reason I ask is that my experience here in the states has been that bureaucrats will use the term drought at the drop of a bucket to implement all sorts of nasty austerity measures designed to make farming more difficult and allow enviro whack jobs to exercise ever greater influence over property owners. They will wait until the reservoirs are literally over flowing before declaring a ‘drought’ over.
Just thinking it might be the same over there.
Some parts of England have recorded April rainfall totals of around 10 inches (254mm). The experts tell us that rain at this time of the year is not as valuable for filling reservoirs as winter rain. Because the ground was hard much of the rain did not soak through to replenish underground supplies and just ran off into ditches and streams. Evaporation is greater at this time of the year and, of course, growing plants require a lot of moisture.
Seems rather suspect to me. Couple of years ago in the Seattle area they had tremedous amounts of snow on Mt. Rainier, the main supplier of water to Seattle’s water shed. However they were saying that the snowflakes were of the wrong shape so it really wasn’t much good and they needed to keep water restrictions in place.
apart from the aluminium and barium counts on Ranier melt, I also read the radiation counts for a lot of the coasts rain wasnt something desirable either..
The “Experts” have said the ground is to hard but there are already loads of things being cancelled because of waterlogging. so I take this expert opinion with a pinch of salt.
After a persistently chilly April here in Ireland there is no sign yet of any lasting warmth. Temperatures may reach 17C tomorrow but fall away to a maximum of only 9C on Saturday. A cold spell in early May is not unusual but I would be concerned if we continued to stay largely on the cold side of the jet-stream throughout the rest of the month. It has often been said that the weather in May sets the pattern for the summer.
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http://www.weatheraction.com/docs/WANews12No21.pdf
London has something with sport this summer if I’m not mistaken.
April this year was the coldest ever here in Sweden.
Do you perhaps have a link for that so I could post it?
Press still talking up a drought here in the UK. Appears the record rain in April was no use as it “fell on hard ground” and flowed away. Looks like unless it rains in the winter months it doesn’t help us! A couple of papers now mentioning stand pipes later this summer so its a fair bet they got their forecast from our met office
This French forecast is highly animated and predicting pretty low temperatures for the UK in early May: move the mouse down the scale on the left to see what weather is expected over the next few days.
http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/gfse_cartes.php?&ech=180&mode=1
As the Brits say they have two seasons: 9 months of bad weather and 3 months of winter.
It looks like Piers Corbyn’s call for a record cold UK May is off to a good start.
You know, I think that there’s valid reason to qusetion whether man is responsible for global warming. There are so many other factors not taken into account (such as this sunspot thing).But,,, the benefit from this idea that man is responsible for global warming is that there is now a push to curb pollution. That there is pollution going on and that it has detrimental effects on man is not in dispute. Maybe overall our survival will benefit from this small alteration of facts.In the meantime I think I’ll buy some new winter boots.-Phil
The pic says it all really :
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/drought_fail.jpg
Reservoirs were at capacities ranging from 77% to 90% when the drought was declared and many are now overflowing . The Brits I`ve talked to online suggest that the problem isn`t one of lack of rain but of various waterboards closing older reservoirs , not constructing new ones and an increasing population creates increasing demand.
Similar problem here in California, for there have been no major reservoirs built since the 1970’s, yet the population has almost doubled.
There is a “Reservoir Drought”, not a rain drought!
Soil Moisture Outlook for Europe
http://wxmaps.org/pix/soil4.html
drought ?
The April sunspot values are in with another downturn experienced. The current level of activity is well below the first cycle of the Dalton Minimum, which can only suggest further cooling in the pipeline. The AO and jet stream position will be influenced.
http://www.landscheidt.info/images/sc5_sc24_19.png
Mr. Sharp: I’ve asked this before with no response, so I’ll ask the question again since you made a comment on the subject… What is considered a large amount of sunspots during a 24 or maybe 48 hour time period? For all I know 3 or 4 sunspots are a lot. Thanks in advance if you or anyone else decide to answer this question.
I’ll echo that question… I’m not sure what a Dalton Minimum amount of sunspots is either. We could certainly use some cooling down here. In southeast Texas, after the warmest April in 50 years we are already celebrating our first 90+ degree days of the season. And thats after the winter that wasn’t… I’m calling 2012 the year without a winter in the lower 48. Gonna have to make sure the A/C is working well, it’s going to be a firecracker of a summer again…
Yes Dale, how many times have we asked this same question? Maybe no one really knows what constitutes a large number of sunspots. And no one seems to know what the Maunder minimum is or what the weather will be like in the Deep South like in Houston or New Orleans at the beginning and during an Ice Age… I’m sure I read somewhere that down here an Ice Age wouldn’t make much of a difference. So how come it was so much colder in the 70s with no Ice Age at all!! And yes, I’m also sick of this hot weather. It seems hotter now that it’s ever been down here and I’ve lived here for 65 years!! I know you’re a roofer Dale and I have a lot of sympathy for you, especially when I know what’s headed our way, for the next 6 months, or longer!! There doesn’t seem to be anything to look forward to now, accept more heat and humidity lately!!! I’m stuck here in the Houston area and you probably wish you were back in Wisconsin. Right? So, all we can do now is remember the cold weather and be glad we had it back when there were no A/Cs to be had…
Not a scientist but looking at the wikpedia entry on the Dalton minimum they have a chart. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Minimum
Looks like yearly sunspot totals were less than 100. So 100 divided by 365 gives you .27 of a sunspot per day.
Don’t know why I overlooked your response to the sunspot question, but thank you John for answering it.
If it makes you feel any better the Old Farmer’s almanac is predicting a cool dry summer(June to August) for most of west Texas and a cool wet one for the east coast from Brownsville to Texarkana.
Well, if that’s true I’m looking forward to something different for a change, instead of HOT, MUGGY and DRY for 6 months!!!
Glad to be of help. Think Geoff and F. Guimaraes answers are a little more sophisticated but whatever gets the job done.
Anyway from an earlier post of Mr. Felix’s.
Robert says:
May 1, 2012 at 8:13 pm
During the last ice age the climate of Chicago essentially moved to Georgia.
Yes John, thank you for the response on the sunspot count question and the hope of the upcoming summer. This morning, just got up and at 8:15 in the morning its already 80 degrees. Summer type heat and humidity already 6 days into May. Oh, well!! Pretty average… I also welcomed my fourth grandchild into the world yesterday. God be praised for a fourth healthy grandchild.
Look at the graph that Geoff linked, our present cycle C24 is showing signs of being lower than cycle C5.
The only series of cycles that we know were lower than C5 in the Dalton minimum are those of Maunder minimum.
Therefore, our present cycle C34, is already comparable to Maunder.
There are natural oscillations, but the present cycle has been, so far, very low.
Thanks for your work about sunspots and solar cycles, Geoff!
It’s the best I’ve seen about sunspots on the internet so far.
But see how many schemes will come out to make money on ” Global Freezing”
They won’t let the world’s population prepare for a freeze because their main aim is to de-populate the earth!
If one reads what the influence of the maunder minimum was in Europe, then I see big trouble coming in food shortages!
Well said
) that’s the bit people miss…they know it’s going to get real cold n lots of people are going to die…all the other stuff in the world is just a side show to the next ice kicking in which it is… It’s a big trick to get rid of numbers…losers!
Dr Deagle Show 2012/05/02 – HARLEY SCHLANGER – Ehrlich Calls for Population Shrinkage
http://youtu.be/Z0HRBOAQ-5k
The de-populate the earth part starts at min 16:00.
Rio Summit must address population growth
http://news.yahoo.com/rio-summit-must-address-population-growth-scientists-231355281.html
According to the UN the world is already headed for population peak and decline around 2050-2060. World is supposed to peak at around 7 billion then start to decline. US and European birth rates have remained stable, Japan is actually in decline. So much so that companies are sending people home early to make babies.
No need for radical govt conspiracies to de populate the world. As countries become more technologically sophisticated they do it automatically.
To Phil Jones:Phil, we don’t need to be lied to about CO2 killing us all by melting the ice caps to understand that pollution is a bad thing.CO2 is not pollution however. It is plant food.The current push by world socialists is a grab for power and money by trying to control CO2, when we all know that NO ONE is going to curb overall CO2 output, not without culling 2/3 of the human population. Even then, it won’t make a darn bit of difference as to whether the climate warms or cools.Instead of putting efforts into the vain, and dishonest, pursuit of climate control via CO2 taxation, invest in the ingenuity of free people to come up with ways to cope with whatever the climate has to send our way.Pete S.
This is balanced by very warm weather in SE and Eastern Europe.
Swings and roundabouts.
A few weeks ago 3 groups of solar sceiitnsts released a joint press release at the 2011 meeting of Solar Physics Division (SPD) of the American Astronomical Society. Each group presented a unique set of solar observations, which together they interpreted as showing the Sun is headed towards a period of extended low activity not solar maximum. There has been very little noticeable solar activity since the exiting event of June 7, 2011. Could this mean that those 3 groups of solar sceiitnsts are correct? Maybe not (For more on solar activity and the solar cycle.)
Funny how the so called forecasters think they forecastered this weather, Piers Cobryn forecasted this very cold weather back in April, its on his site!
The idiots at the weather centres can’t even forecast a day ahead without keep changing it every few hours!
They most probably looked at Piers forecast and copied it!
Non of there models work…in fact there models are just photographs n math snap shots of what haopened before…a dive year old could leaen how to do it never mind these brainwashed graduates!!! LMAO they forxast the weather by looking at pictures n maybe out of the window!!! ROTFLMAO!!!
How does the old joke go? 50 years ago before satellites and computers forecasters could accurately predict the weather 3 days in advance. Now with all the new tech and improved theory its up to 72 hours in advance.
Hm. Not sure I agree with you at all, George. The ocean is pretty big. Locally it vaeirs in pH, depending on God only knows what factors. Volcanic eruptions below sea level and above the ocean dump a tremendous amount of ash into the ocean every year, which would tend to make it more basal (as opposed to acidic). One good volcanic eruption (like Krakatoa back in the 1880s) can literally do away with an entire summer of growing season for the whole planet (by increasing earth’s albedo?) they called the year that it exploded the year without summer .I just tend to think that the larger geologic and planetary and solar processes are much more likely to have an impact on Earth’s climate over decades and centuries, than the piddling efforts of mankind in comparison. Spending trillions of dollars trying to reduce CO2 emissions by some fractional percent in 50 years, and making 3rd world countries stay that way, because it makes Al Gore feel good to be doing something about the environment is not my idea of wisdom, or truth of any convenient or inconvenient kind.I’m curious why you think the ocean’s acidity level would be something on which attention should be kept?