Weeks of heavy snow set to trigger worst whiteout in years.
Temperatures are expected to plunge to -15C (5F) in exposed parts from the weekend – with up to five inches of snow possible and “significant snowfall” over high ground in Wales and the North
Forecasters said the entire country faces a crippling big freeze which could last until the middle of February as winter finally arrives with a vengeance.
It’s the same weather pattern responsible for the bitter 2009-10 winter, the coldest for 31 years when transport networks were crippled and planes grounded.
Piers Corbyn, forecaster for WeatherAction, warned that a “catastrophic” Arctic blast could see “feet of snow” cause mayhem across the UK. He said that the whiteout is likely to be more severe than the big freeze of 2010.
“Later in the month we are expecting waves of major Arctic blasts and blizzards with many feet of drifting snow and another blizzardy blast around the beginning of February.
“WeatherAction expects snow amounts to be as bad or worse than the record-breaking December 2010.”
He said England and Wales will be worst affected although the entire country can expect a prolonged and bitter cold blast.
“We are also looking at severe and penetrating frosts with temperatures as low as -15C in exposed parts, it is going to last into next month when things could get even worse,” said Jonathan Powell, forecaster for Vantage Weather Services.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/369790/Snow-chaos-to-cripple-Britain-with-15c-weather-predicted
Thanks to Caroline in West Virginia for this link
“The back-tracking has started!” says Caroline. “I had warned my mum in the English Midlands a week ago that the UK was going to be slammed with an Arctic outbreak.
NOTHING from anyone on the subject in the mainstream media.. until now!
Also, much of North America will hit the deep freeze around the 19th Jan through mid-February as waves of an Arctic blast start to roll towards us after the developing warm spell.”
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Most interestingly, Piers’ website appears to be suffering glitches to prevents comments being displayed.
Just one of those things or corporate vandalism?
As Piers has got more notice his sites been attacked and hacked, he now also moderates comments as he copped some real trolling.
PTB do NOT want his news or info getting out to the masses.
if you contact he will send newlettes out to ensure you can get the free info. if you have funds , pay and get the full reports -even better.
One site called US Hit Man that calls out on Obama’s activities also has problems with getting comments thru.
You should check out how weird the comment system is.
Rhys: Yes, as you know, I am a frequent contributor to the Weatheraction comments section and these cyber attacks are indeed very frustrating, but they also show how the AGW Mafiosi fear his accuracy and truth.
Rhys: Piers predicted this coming cold spell 3 weeks ago and of course has raised the predictive qualities of Sudden Stratospheric Warming( SSW) for some time. Now the BBC/Met Office are making the same sort of prediction with SSW used frequently. Wonder if they are getting someone to buy the WA forecast on the QT?
For quite a few years a few select forecasters (not piers or the met office) have been well aware that SSW can disrupt the normal flow of westerly winds in the northern hemisphere.
The SSW of January 2009 was quite strong and a few individuals on a weather forum that i use were well aware that it can change weather patterns right down to the surface of the planet which in turn can increase the chance of cold weather (by no means guarantees it though)
and by combining the SSW forecast with sea surface temperatures and a bunch of other variables, you can get a rough idea how the next few weeks may turn out.
So im afraid that using Stratospheric warming as a forecasting tool is nothing new.
As for the reporting by the mainstream media: in the Netherlands it is the same. They predict light frost in the coming weekend, that’s all. For months now extremely cold weather is going on in China. For the first time it was mentioned on TV in the economic news. “China’s inflation has risen from 2% to 2,5% because of the rising of food prices caused by the severe winter”. They showed pictures of Chinese people buying inside a supermarket, no pictures of snow in the streets. Then they went on and on about burning forests, first in Australis and later in New Zealand.
Piers I trust, but Jonathan Powell has got it spectacularly wrong in the past.
The UK is not particularly cold at the moment. Later in the weekend the BBC are forecasting daytime temperatures to be above freezing and only limited areas- mainly the hills- to be affected by snow. These would have been considered to be normal winter conditions in the 1960′s-70′s.
In my opinion things could get to be a lot worse than even Piers Corbyn is forecasting. What I mean is that we will have no rail or roads. The water and sewage might freeze up. Meaning no water and sewage. How are you planning to deal with your sewage ? Also if the frost is so severe then as a consequence the gas and electricity grid will fail too. Meaning no gas supply and no electricity. As the gas pipes affected by the frost getting into the ground start fracturing there will be cases of lethal explosions. Which will require the government to request that all gas supply be shut down. That will be expensive because the gas pipes will have to be reinstalled. If the pipes where you live are of the new plastic material then you might be lucky to have a supply of gas that will not be shut down. However my advise is that we all need to get accuttered with paraffin heaters and also gas cookers that are powered by cylinders of liquid gas. When the electric system fails that is going to be too late to salvage whatever you have inside of your freezer cabinet. Thus I highly recommend investing in items of tinned food. With the roads and rail out of service the shops will quickly become empty. Thus get your winter stock in early. Already it might be too late ?
From the book of Job,”God sends the hoarfrost to shut men indoors and make them consider their ways”, and it is coming just in time for people have been listening to those who would fleece them and left out in the cold to dry.The people swallowed all their empty promises by becoming ward of the state whose real purpose is drastic depopulation. THEY ARE IN IT ONLY FOR THEMSELVES!
Just recently the Obama Admn pointedly warned the Tories in the UK (David Cameron & Co.), not to leave the European Union, “or else”. It was reported in numerous UK publications, but the US MSM was mute (big surprise there, huh?).
The UK is planning a referendum on staying in the E.U. which is very unpopular, with extreme disgust over EU policies, an imperial bureaucracy in Brussels, unfettered emigration into the UK from eastern & central Europe, etc,etc.
I think it’s very likely the UK will leave the EU for these and 1 other big reason: the intense cold weather coming up, they’ll bear the initial brunt of, and the EU’s absolutely crazy land planning & agricultural regulations, et al. It just will not sit well with the Brits to have the Europeans dictate their agricultural, food production, & land planning policies, when they (the Brits) will be in the first wave of “freez-ees” for what’s coming.
Get Britain Out!
I certainly hope we leave the EU and not just because of trade and regulations which are the usual worries. So many people still don’t realise that the EU is not a democracy but a type of dictatorship known as an ‘oligarchy’ which is a dictatorship not by one person but by groups, in this case the European Commission and Council plus input by other groups such as beaurocrats.
Once the EU Commission has decided on a ‘law’ (they call them directives or regulations) there is practically no way of stopping them going through to the individual member states and having to be put into their law system.
Sorry to on aboutthis, folks, on a climate site, but I’ve been a member of UKIP for 19 years and the thought of my country becoming a subject nation still drives me up the wall.
As I am sure it does everyone.
(by the way, you started the thread!!)
—About the British weather: don’t count the penguins just yet. The papers, etc. have been talking about snow for months and nothing has happened yet. Just wait to see…
Joe Bastori has been talking about this and the US cold coming in mid jan.last week
Joes article can be found on weatherbell.com
It would be great if the UK left the EU my late unicle did not fly in the RAF in 1940 to find the UK run by the EU
Isn’t it time the whole world went metric ?
5F or minus 15 C is a little ridiculous.
Minus 15 sounds much more impressive than 5.
Besides my brain hurts.
–agreed. But 100F sounds a lot hotter than 38C. Or, to put it the other way around, I agree that 0C is much more sensible than 32F for freezing point. I use both systems: Celsius up to 20C and then Farenheit from there upwards.
4ºC and raining here tonight in Wiltshire, southern England. Not exactly winter yet, it’s been exceptionally mild so far this year. It will be interesting to see if Piers Corbin’s prediction proves correct. I’d like to like the man, but his web site is a dogs dinner. I have brought a second snow shovel to ensure that I will always be able to get to the polling station when the time comes to vote UKIP.
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The truth is at Pravda:
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/04-01-2013/123380-global_warming-0/
Presently the forecast is for less severe conditions than 2010-2011 winter. Perhaps things will change, but with the better planning that is in place I see no reason for chaos, crippling or any other conditions. Just a normal winter from years past back to entertain us.
Of course, situation might change as we move through January into February, but then again might not – time will tell!
As for EU, we must not leave, but make changes to our membership, for example being financially neutral. We are broke and must act like it too.
As the British are the only responsible and reasonable friends America has now who are not cravenly beholden nor ever have been, I do hope they leave the EU. They had the good sense not to exchange their sovereign coin for the carnival token of the Euro.
Don’t believe what you read in the paper’s… -15 deg C?
Arrrgh! This forecast is wrong and i shall explain why.
There is currently nothing to suggest this at all!
As of this evening the computer models show some normal winter weather, a bit of snow about, some frost, some rain, a mixture really. Later in the week may see some very cold night temperatures but it looks as though milder weather will follow (at least for a while)
One point i have to get across is that ‘stratospheric warming’ doesn’t always lead to cold weather, although a whole bunch of forecasters don’t seem to understand that.
Most of these extreme forecast are made by certain forcasters to get themselves in the newspapers, and then the newspapers mis-quote the actual forecasters and turn an unrealistic forecast into some crazy apocalyptic forecast to try and get people to actually buy the paper! Its just total madness!!!
So yes, it will be cold for a bit, and yes there will be some snow, but at present it seems like normal winter weather and nothing like what happened in January 2010 or December 2010, in fact not even as major as the cold weather in February 2009.
Let’s see how all these wind turbines strewn across the countryside provide needed heat, petrol and food for the Brits this winter.
Piers Corbyn is acting like he discovered SSW’s and that everyone else is copying him in desperation! Somehow he also thinks that the usual suspects (aka cretins, charlatans, liars, fools etc)believe that everything is caused by CO2. This man is a chancer – sometimes he’ll get lucky and we’ll hear a lot about it. Often he’ll be wrong and it’s ignored.
As for his acolytes and their conspiracy theories that the government is trying to gag him by hacking his website whilst quietly buying his forecast because they can’t write their own…it really is quite worrying that people can be so gullible and naive.
It’s getting a bit chilly here now at around zero and we have the possibility of light snow tonight, turning to rain later, but considering it is winter, it’s nothing to get excited about. I’m convinced we will have a return to good old fashioned winters sooner or later, but it’s not happening right now, so don’t believe all that you read in the sensationalist press.
If there is an Ice Age comming, it’s been nice to know you, and a Maunder type minimum will kill thousands. I’m not scared of a bit of cold weather like the winters I remember as a kid forty odd years ago. What scares me is that Britain is a very different place now. The Bean Counters run everything as lean as possible for maximum shareholder profit. The utility companies have no spare staff to cope with any thing but the most minor emergencies. Like wise local authorities, highways and railways. Supermarkets are re-supplied nightly by trucks travelling long distances from vast centralized warehouses. The “Britains” of today would not que politely for rations like the previous inhabitants in WWII, and the numbers of police or military that might try to persuade them to are being cut back drastically.
This is one of my son’s favourite videos at the moment:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuvoJuAtYjM
When, not if, we do have another winter of the type that was fairly typical only a few decades ago, Britain will not be able to rally round and just get on with it like it used to, even if some people had the will to try. It will be every man for himself.
Quote “The European Union is the old Soviet Union dressed in western clothes” Who said it? President Gorbachov!