ByIan Livingston January 3, 2023 — 5.15pm A record-warm year in many parts of Europe and provided yet another example of how human-caused climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of such extraordinary weather events. On New Year’s Day, at least seven countries had their warmest January weather on record as temperatures surged to springtime levels: Latvia hit 11.1, Denmark 12.6 , Lithuania 14.6, Belarus 16.4, the Netherlands 16.9, Poland 19.0 and the Czech Republic 19.6. Those who track worldwide weather records described the warm spell as historic and could hardly believe its scope and magnitude. Maximiliano Herrera, a climatologist who tracks global weather extremes, called the event “totally insane” and “absolute madness” in text messages to the Capital Weather Gang. He wrote that some high night temperatures observed were uncommon even in mid-summer. Skiers coast down artificial snow at 1600 metres above sea level in Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, on New Year’s Eve.CREDIT:KEYSTONE/AP It’s “the most extreme event ever seen in European climatology,” Herrera wrote. “Nothing stands close to this.” Guillaume Séchet, a broadcast meteorologist in France, agreed, tweeting that Sunday was one of the most incredible days in Europe’s climate history. “The intensity and extent of warmth in Europe right now is hard to comprehend,” tweeted Scott Duncan, a meteorologist based in London. Bilbao, Spain, reached 25.1 degrees, its hottest January day, while Trois-Villes, France, reached 24.9 degrees, a record for the month. It was among more than 100 records set across the country on Sunday, including 24 degrees in Dax, and 18.6 degrees at stations with data dating to the 1800s in Besançon and Châteauroux. Ohlsbach, Germany, reached 19.4 degrees for a monthly record and the highest temperature of the day. Other locations, including Berlin at 16 degrees, set January records. Berlin was among the places that set records both New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/03/europe/europe-heat-records-climate-intl/index.html __________________________________ Interesting what the weather does sometimes. We had the hottest summer on record in the UK just this year. It does make you wonder if there is an underlining cause for these weather extremes?
Globally, the cooling trend since 2016 continued in 2022. UAH Global Temperature Update: 2022 was the 7th Warmest of 44-Year Satellite Record January 3rd, 2023 December of 2022 finished the year with a global tropospheric temperature anomaly of +0.05 deg. C above the 1991-2020 average, which was down from the November value of +0.17 deg. C. The average anomaly for the year was +0.174 deg. C, making 2022 the 7th warmest year of the 44+ year global satellite record, which started in late 1978. Continuing La Nina conditions in the Pacific Ocean have helped to reduce global-average temperatures for the last two years. The 10 warmest years were: #1 2016 +0.389 #2 2020 +0.358 #3 1998 +0.347 #4 2019 +0.304 #5 2017 +0.267 #6 2010 +0.193 #7 2022 +0.174 #8 2021 +0.138 #9 2015 +0.138 #10 2018 +0.090 The linear warming trend since January, 1979 continues at +0.13 C/decade (+0.12 C/decade over the global-averaged oceans, and +0.18 C/decade over global-averaged land).
I generally don't post on climate change or global warming but the thought that came to mind after reading the OP, is that Vlad the Despot will not like this news and that's a good thing!
She'll get over it especially when she inherits his vast wealth after he commits suicide from a second story window!!
Watts Up With That? The New Pause lengthens: 100 Months with No Warming At All January 4, 2023 By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Excerpt: The cold weather on both sides of the Atlantic last month seems to have had its effect on temperature, which fell sharply compared with November, lengthening the New Pause to 8 years 4 months, as measured by the satellites designed, built and operated by Dr Roy Spencer and Dr John Christy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville: LINK
