Incredible photos – The worst snow storms in 26 years have caused havoc on the Channel Islands this week, leaving drifts up to 8-foot (2.44 m) deep.
The airport on Guernsey had to be shut for two days while more than 15,000 tons of snow were removed from the runway.
The islands caught the same storms that crippled northern France, where shoulder-deep drifts led to Channel Tunnel trains being cancelled and long queues on the M20 as lorries waited for delayed ferries.
Forecasters are calling for another “cold snap” next week.
See great photos:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2293273/The-ice-fields-GUERNSEY-Record-breaking-cold-spell-sees-8ft-high-snowdrifts-usually-mild-holiday-island.html
Thanks to Stephanie Relfe for this link
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cold snap…
sound of manic laughter:-)
Well it looks like record snows and global cooling continues…
I invented the catchphrase “Global Cooing Continues…..” several years ago. Happy to see it is catching on. I have now changed it to; “Global Cooling Continues………To accelerate!” Time for ALL to prepare by storing longlasting foodstuffs and emergency supplies.
In March 2000 the notorious climate fraud David Viner, at that time a so-called scientist from the University of East Anglia, made the headlines with his prediction that within a few years, snow would be a thing of the past. Children just wouldn’t know what snow was. Now the schools in Great Britain are foreced to close in March because of heavy snowfall.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/schools-forced-close-heavy-snowfall-1772782
I guess you mean David “Whiner” Because now he is whining because he’s wrong…lol
http://expianetadidio.blogspot.it/2012/06/il-risveglio-dei-vulcani-preistorici.html
Increasing millenary volcanism.
Now let’s just hold on a minute here. Britain IS NOT under eight feet of snow, as this headline appears to imply.
Guernsey and the other Channel Islands certainly had an exceptional fall of snow, as did northern France which they are nearer to than they are to mainland UK. I don’t know how much if any remains, but the weather forecast says +5ºC with rain tonight.
The Highlands of Scotland are apparently due for significant snow fall tonight, but that is Scotland, 600 + miles to the north.
It snowed quite hard all of Sunday morning here in Southern England in my local area, but very little settled and all was gone by the evening.
I’m all for reporting cold events, but we must be careful not to go down the warmist road of jumping on every bit of weather that suits our theories. When I read of exceptional cold in eastern Europe, or deep snow in Japan, I’d like to be reasonably sure that it’s not sensationalist exaggeration.
What might be more significant for the UK is that after little more than a month of relatively dry weather, we are now back to rain which we had for most of the second half of last year. Harvests will probably take a hit.
I believe that exceptional rains around 1315 heralded the beginning of The Little Ice Age, and the ensuing famines killed far more people than the lower temperatures that followed.
Mike – I don’t think the headline is implying that at all, if you read the headline, it just says that 8ft. snowdrifts are in the ‘warmest’ part of the UK. So that’s certainly not ALL of Britain, and they clearly say ‘snowdrifts’, meaning that’s not how much fell, but how much was blown by the wind. After reading just the headline, I was definitely not under the impression that they meant all of the UK.