>Well below normal for Scotland and UK but much worse across Europe!

Written by on February 1, 2010 in Rest of Europe with 5 Comments

>GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – Despite a warm start to December 2009 and warm last two weeks of January 2010 we are running as of today an impressive -5.6 degrees F below normal for the first 62 days of Meteorological Winter which runs from Dec 1 through Feb 28.

December was the colder of the two months with a departure of -6.5F and January was still an impressive -4.7F.

In comparison to last December and January both departures were -3.1F and -0.1F respectively, not even close to this years chill.

As I write this, here outside my house we still have a light covering of snow on the ground which returned last Friday and we have also just seen our 4th morning in a row down into the 20s, making this morning the 41st night below freezing since Dec 1st.

Though days are mild with the Atlantic air in place now, the tendency remains for it to want to be cold rather than warm. This is such a very different winter than anything witnessed here in Britain in the last few decades. In my 26 years, I have never seen it snow on and off even during a “warm or thaw” period. Up north in the Highlands, despite milder air, winter hasn’t let up since it kicked in around mid-December with almost constant snows and a deep snowcover remains.

It’s likely to be another colder-than-normal month in February so this may end up an amazing winter for “real winter weather” and most are already tired of it.. I really can understand this year why folks are tiring from persistent frost and icy conditions but hang in there as winters days will soon be numbered.

EUROPE SUFFERING A FIERCE WINTER WITH SOME CITIES 12 BELOW NORMAL FOR JANUARY…..

For departures of 5 to 8 below normal here, it would need to be very cold across much of the European continent and that is exactly the case as by looking at the numbers for a selection of cities from De Bilt to Berlin, I am astonished at just how severe the December through January period has been. Sure, Glasgow has been cold and the first 10 days of the month was running an incredible 12 below normal but we eventually tallied a still cold but more modest 4.7 below normal for the 31 days of the month, the final two weeks of near to slightly above normal brought our deparatures down, but just look at what some cities tallied for the FULL 31 DAYS of January.

Check out these dramatic departures from normal…

DE BILT, NETHERLANDS
DEC -2.3 JAN -5.3

PARIS, FRANCE
DEC -1.5 JAN -5.0

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
DEC -5.6 JAN -4.0

LONDON (HEATHROW)
DEC -2.4 JAN -4.3

OSLO, NORWAY
DEC -3.9 JAN -7.2

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
DEC -5.0 JAN -10.7

HELSINKI, FINLAND
DEC -5.7 JAN -12.6

WARSAW, POLAND
DEC -0.7 JAN -12.5

BERLIN, GERMANY
DEC -1.9 JAN -7.8

MOSCOW
JAN -5.5 (Dec was slightly above normal)

(Figures courtesy of Accuwether Pro)

Note the stunning -10.7 for Stockholm, -12.6 for Helsinki and -12.5 for Warsaw, remembering folks that these cities are typically very cold in winter so in order to egt these departures from normal shows just how outrageously cold it has been during January there.

Thanks for reading.
-Mark

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  1. Anonymous says:

    >The snow turns to rain, covers the ground, and begins the thaw (Fife and Lothian).

  2. Anonymous says:

    >Despite the cold, it rains in Lothian and Fife this evening!

  3. Theo says:

    >Nice post Mark, and nice call on the cold winter in the northern hemisphere along with Piers Corbyn.

    In America, we are still dealing with ENSO, which I forecasted four year ago for this time in 2010, and I expect an earlier than normal spring arrival, with warmer than normal temps in spring, and in summer before the long, wet and warm autumn months w/ La Nina following on the backend of Winter 2011.

  4. Mr. Xyz says:

    >This spoof of climate science may be of interest:

    http://climaterealists.com/?id=4960

  5. Anonymous says:

    >I think as a country, from an economic and social perspective, we need to worry a lot more about the cold & freezing conditions and how to advance science to protect against that. The cold has cost the economy multiple billions of damage and higher energy costs year in, year out, in the past decade.

    Apart from the totally unsubstantiated "tipping points" and "the science is settled" propaganda from Al Gore any genuine global warming would be welcome, but even that aint evening happening. They have messed around with the data so badly that we could have been cooling for the past decade when the scientists "homogenized" data us showing the opposite.

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