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Record Cold November Night for Parts of UK
Temperatures plummeted to the coldest on record for November in parts of the UK overnight.
Northern Ireland hit a new low of -9.5C (15F) at Lough Fea, Co Tyrone, and in Wales, a record minimum of -18C (0F) was reached at Llysdinam, in Powys.
Snow is still falling in Scotland, Northern Ireland and north-east England, and Edinburgh, Glasgow and Derry airports have been closed.
Forecasters say the cold spell will continue well into next week.
BBC News website, 28th November 2010: Coldest November night on record in parts of UK
January 1st, 2011 at 6:32 am
PerthNow December 31, 2010 11:08AM
PERTH faces a week of blistering heat with four consecutive days of searing 40C maximum temperatures as 2010 is declared the hottest year on record.
Maximum temperatures in Perth averaged at 25.3C, making 2010 the hottest year since records began in 1897.
Meanwhile, Perth recorded just 503mm of rain this year, well below the average 868.3mm, making it the second driest year on record.
The issue is called “GLOBAL” warming, not look outside my window and it’s cold so global warming must be a myth.
Secondly, no competent scientist denies that the planet has gone through warming periods in the past. The question is whether or not human activity will cause this warming period to be far greater, with more severe impact, than in the past.
We are coming out of a sun-spot minimum, which should have resulted in cooling, when in fact, it has not. That should have the alarm bells going off. The reality is that by ignoring or denying the issue, if in fact humans are causing warming, results in millions of deaths, extinctions, wars over water resources, etc. If warming scientists are wrong, or if the planet adapts to the human actions and corrects the warming trend, then all that is lost are tax dollars.
August West, Chaoticist
January 4th, 2011 at 8:26 pm
There’s been no statistically significant global warming for 15 years – so says climate CRUminal Phil Jones.
Global average near surface temperature is a seriously flawed statistic. No one lives in a global average region. Look out of the window and you see weather – nothing unusual in the context of the current 12,000 year old interglacial. We have ‘records’ because ‘records’ are short.