Early provisional figures from the Met Office’s National Climate Information Centre indicate that April had the third lowest average UK minimum temperature for the month since records began in 1884, while Wales, Scotland and England all reported their figures in their top five lowest ever recorded. Average daily maximum temperatures were also below normal, but not by as much as the minimum temperatures.
Germany’s Coldest April since 1977, UK coldest April since 1922!
Image: Cap Allon
This is a two-part article, firstly about Germany, followed by what’s happening in the UK, and gives more proof of the fallacy of ever-increasing temperatures.
The Electroverse article from yesterday:
Europe is the region documented to have suffered most-greatly during previous Grand Solar Minimums (Dalton/Maunder), which makes sense given its close(ish) proximity to the pole along with its populous.
The onset of this next GSM is proving no different, even at this early stage…
As reported earlier this week, the European continent just suffered a historically cold month of April –which is now persisting into May– however; one nation I didn’t get to was Germany.
With an average temperature of just 6C (42.8F), April 2021 was Germany’s coldest fourth month of the year since that of 1977 (solar minimum of cycle 20). This average reading finishes some 3C below the 1991-2020 climatological norm, and 2.3C below the previously-used 30-year avg. of 1981-2010.
The month was also somewhat drier than average, reports DWD Klima and Umwelt on Twitter:
Note the stark temperature drop in the chart @DWD_klima provides above.
Blowing it up (below), we see the plunge from April, 2020 to April, 2021 more clearly:
This an indication of just how quickly the climate can cool when conditions allow, conditions such as low solar activity and La Ninas.
Also crucial to note here is that the lag between low solar activity and terrestrial cooling now appears to be over.
The “cooling trend” registered by NASA in the ‘upper’ atmosphere over the past few years has now finally permeated down the atmospheric layers and to the global ‘lower’ atmosphere (where us humans reside).
“High above Earth’s surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy,” said NASA’s Martin Mlynczak, associate principal investigator for the SABER instrument onboard NASA’s TIMED satellite, back in 2018. “If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold”–which it did, in late-2018.
SABER’s missions is to monitor infrared emissions from carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitric oxide (NO) — by measuring the infrared glow of these molecules, SABER can assess the thermal state of gas at the very top of the atmosphere: a layer researchers call ‘the thermosphere.’
“The thermosphere always cools off during Solar Minimum,” continued Mlynczak. “It’s one of the most important ways the solar cycle affects our planet.”
To help keep track of what’s happening in the thermosphere, Mlynczak and colleagues recently introduced the ‘Thermosphere Climate Index’ (TCI)–a number expressed in Watts that tells how much heat NO molecules are dumping into space. During Solar Maximum, TCI is high (‘Hot’); during Solar Minimum, it is low (‘Cold’).
And although SABER has been in orbit for 2 decades, Mlynczak and colleagues have been able to calculate TCI going all the way back to the 1940s: “SABER taught us to do this by revealing how TCI depends on other variables such as geomagnetic activity and the Sun’s output–things that have been measured for decades,” he explains.
Taking Mlynczak’s chart above –and more specifically its plotting of the past 6 solar cycles which fall directly in line with SABER’s Thermosphere Climate Index– it is revealed that this latest and historic round of low solar output didn’t begin until the minimum of cycle 23 (arguably 2008).
And with the impacts of 2016-17’s record-strong El Nino now fully faded, and effects of the moderate 2019-20 event also having dissipated (both clearly visible in the chart below from John Christy and Roy Spencer at UAH), the cumulative reduction in activity through cycles 23 and 24 are finally impacting our ‘global’ temperature datasets, and not just regional ones — as mentioned above, the record cooling of the thermosphere has now worked its way down to the troposphere:
Returning to the regional data for a moment, because I think its important we are aware of the impacts on the ground in order for us to properly prepare, Germany was one of the nations to report a rapid and intense terrestrial cooling during the previous Grand Solar Minimum, the more moderate Dalton Minimum (1790-1830).
The country’s Oberlach Weather Station, for example, experienced a 2C decline over just 20 years during the beginning of the 1800s — this rapid cooling devastated the country’s food production, and contributed to the starvation of millions upon millions of people across Eurasia. It also puts to bed then tion that such stark shifts in the climate take centuries to manifest — this is not true, historical documentation –not to mention proxy data– shows us that ice age conditions can descend within just a matter of years.
Germany’s stark temperature drop from April 2020 to April 2021 provides further evidence for this.
See more here: electroverse.net
Moving to the UK, the Met Office announced on April 30th that this month was the coldest UK April since 1922.
So much for global warming then.
The Met Office article states:
April 2021 had the lowest average minimum temperatures for April in the UK since 1922, as air frost and clear conditions combined for a frost-laden, chilly month, despite long hours of sunshine.
Scenes like this are very unusual for April in the UK.
Image: Evening Standard
It continues:
It had already been reported that April had seen its highest level of air frost in 60 years, with an average of 13 days of air frost topping the previous record figure of 11 days in 1970 (records for air frost go back to 1960). This number of air frosts is more typical for December, January or February, whereas the average number of air frosts in April is five days. For gardeners and growers there were also a record high number of ground frosts with 22 days this month compared to an average of 12 days.
Senior Scientist at the Met Office’s National Climate Information Centre Mike Kendon said: “A long, prolonged spell of dry and settled conditions was only interrupted by a wet few days in western Scotland in the first half of the month, and cold nights have been the norm across the UK, especially in northern England and Scotland, with the lowest reading coming in at –9.4°C at Tulloch Bridge on 12 April.
“Areas of high pressure have become established over or around the UK, feeding-in cold conditions and creating clear nights allowing any heat to escape. The high pressure has tended to prevent April shower activity that we might more typically expect to see at this time of year. The clear skies by day have allowed temperatures to rise in strong spring sunshine, only to be lost again over night. Early in the month we saw a cold plunge of Arctic maritime air bringing wintry showers with lying snow in some locations, particularly northern Scotland.”
The article then states:
April 2021 will be remembered as being a dry month for many places, as a small showery spell in the last week of the month did little to offset the long dry spells for many, and it will be one of the driest Aprils on record.
See more here: metoffice.gov.uk
As it happens, the retired former senior government scientist I have mentioned before was in the process of compiling data on wet and dry days in the UK, and he discovered the number of records has dropped dramatically in the last few years. One of the first things he noted is “Data collection didn’t kick off in 1884 as the Met Office press statement claims – Oxford and Armagh stations have monthly records dating back to 1853 for one thing!”
He says:
“A total of 81 stations should be capable of returning 2,511 daily records between them for a 31-day month and this target is the red dashed line on the attached slide. The blue line is the total number of records that were actually kept.
From 1964 – 2000 record keeping was pretty much spot on despite the usual operational and staffing issues but from 2000 onward we see a clear and steady decline in the number of records kept. Some of this will be due to stations closing or relocating but it isn’t just this – a glance at daily data reveals increasing numbers of holes in the daily record across all stations.
Record keeping fell off a cliff after 2019. We may expect a degree of delay in record processing but, on average, this takes around 6 months – so where is the data for Jan 2020 – Oct 2020? Is it ever going to surface?“
He produced this graph of the number of reporting stations. This is quite clearly how the Met Office can claim the driest April on record.
So there we have it. Record cold in Europe, with more cold forecast, both across Europe and North America. Rather a different picture from what the alarmists would have you believe.
About the author: Andy Rowlands is a university graduate in space science and British Principia Scientific International researcher, writer and editor who co-edited the new climate science book, ‘The Sky Dragon Slayers: Victory Lap‘
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Herb Rose
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Hi Andy,
I guess we can undo the revision to the laws of thermodynamics: All objects absorb radiated energy and object above absolute zero radiate energy, except the oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere.
Herb
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Charles Higley
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If you are in a room that is room temperature, say 21 deg C, and your body is 37 deg C, do the walls heat you or do you heat the walls?
The walls and you are indeed radiating IR, but all of the energy levels of your body are filled up to 37 but the wall is only full to 21. So, IR radiation from your body from energy levels from 22 to 37 deg C are indeed absorbed by the walls. But, IR from the walls will find no place in empty energy levels of your body as your body is hotter. Wall IR will be reflected (rejected). You heat the walls.
Similarly, Earth’s surface is about 15 deg C and the upper tropical troposphere, which is supposed to the region warming Earth’s surface, is -17 deg C. No gas of any kind in the atmosphere can heat the surface with downwelling IR as it will be reflected by the hotter surface, regardless of being land or ocean, as all are warmer by far in the tropics. Gases in that region can only emit IR equivalent to energies or temperatures up to -17 deg C.
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Herb Rose
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Hi Charles,
In a collision between two object momentum is conserved and energy equalizes. Since collisions between molecules are common in the troposphere this is the primary way energy is transferred between molecules, not radiation. When gas molecules strike a thermometer momentum (mass times velocity) will be conserved and energy will equalize, so the reading on the thermometer is a result of both the energy of the gas molecules and the mass or number of molecules striking the thermometer. To determine the kinetic energy of the individual molecules you must consider the density of the atmosphere at that altitude. So while the thermometer may register a lower temperature at a greater altitude you must determine if that reading is a result of a lower velocity (energy) of the molecules or lower mass (number) of molecules. If you use the UGL and multiply the temperature on the thermometer by the inverse of density (the volume of a constant number of molecules) it shows the kinetic energy of the gas molecules increases with altitude even though the thermometer registers a lower temperature.(A barometer is measuring the same momentum as the thermometer. In a warm high pressure area the air is less dense so the mass of molecules per unit area should be lower not higher.)
When a small high speed car strikes the rear of a large slow truck what happens? The velocity of the truck increases while the car slows, even if the truck had more kinetic energy because of its greater mass. When a high speed (energy) gas molecule hits a rock on the surface of the Earth the gas molecule will also add energy to the rock, just as the car added energy to the truck..
Herb
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Barry
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Gee maybe and I know it’s a stretch but could it be entering into the grand solar min. Is starting to have an effect on temp. Or is it because of the covid shutdown even though co2 levels haven’t changed and probably will keep going up until we get more real cooling causing natural declines in the earth system output. Either way their reasoning will be just as believed by the cult following as always. The fact that science has been degraded to political rhetoric and people just believe what ever lies they are told even when the actual facts refute it tells me that we are well on our way back to the dark ages.
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Si
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Sorry, stopped reading after this awful paragraph:
“ Europe is the region documented to have suffered most-greatly during previous Grand Solar Minimums (Dalton/Maunder), which makes sense given its close(ish) proximity to the pole along with its populous.”
“Most-greatly”? ‘Suffered most’ is sufficient.
“Along with its populous”?
The word you’re looking for is populace.
God-awful writing!
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Andy
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That was coipied from the article. Don’t shoot the messenger.
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Wisenox
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Everything is a fallacy. Or, as they say all the world is a stage. This video is a little off topic, but it does hit on the elites and their lies. I actually find it motivating. Sounds like an old Carlin clip put to a cartoon.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/zsiMUL6hGWIL/
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Doug Harrison
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Thank you, Wisenox, for that lovely link. What a shame he’s not still alive to shout his important and well stated message from the roof tops today. However I’m afraid the sheeple are quite willingly going to the slaughter in their stultifying, unquestioning ignorance.
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Andrew Pilkington
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Shame my years of Sky and Chemtrail footage couldn’t help determine temperatures, especially all the footage I haven’t time to publish.
We’ve recorded Clouds, forming from bright dots in a blue Sky, Clouds created, moved and destroyed by the use of Frequencies, some horrendous Chemtrails and associated colour changes in the clouds etc., and the odd UFO which seem beyond what we know.
It’s such a shame that people don’t look up anymore and the Stars really are Beautiful, especially if you have a Camera with a zoom like the P900 and P1000. They are certainly NOT what the likes of NASA tell us they are. Beautiful colours with Electric discharges all over the place, behind ripples of water. A lot aren’t even Round.
On the bright side, at least it’s fantastic for filming the Luminaries, but, as you say, it’s bloody freezing out there. Especially now at 0145 on Friday the 7th May, in North East England and the cold creases mein pain, so roll on Summer 🙂
Many thanks, Andy. Great article.
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Wisenox
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We’ve recorded Clouds, forming from bright dots in a blue Sky
You should post that somewhere. I’d be interested in seeing it.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Andy and hopefully PSI Readers,
I have recently written an essay (https://principia-scientific.com/earths-climate-is-heterogeneous-and-not-homogenous/) whose purpose was to direct attention to the NONSENSE of AVERAGING OBSERVED (MEASURED) DATA.
No one has yet questioned the validity of my claim So I question: Why, in this later posted article, are you writing at length about NONSENSE??? If I am wrong, I would like it explained how I am wrong!!!
Have a good day, Jerry
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Andy and hopefully PSI Readers,
I now see I must accept a portion of the blame that you have ignored what I had written recently. For I haven’t recently reviewed the following history.
Lane Cooper, Professor of the English Language and Literature in Cornell University, wrote ‘Louis Agassiz As A Teacher’. 1917. This was 44 years after Agassiz had died.
A modern SCIENTIST might ask: Who was Louis Agassiz? And after learning the answer to this question, might ask: What is a Professor of the English Language writing about how this scientist taught 44 years after he had died?
So, Cooper, in his preface began: If it be asked why a teacher of English should be moved to issue this book on Agassiz, my reply might be: ‘Read the Introductory Nole’—for the answer is there.
INTRODUCTORY NOTE—When the question was put to Agassiz, ‘What do you regard as your greatest work?’ He replied: I have taught men to observe.”
The ‘heart’ of Lane’s book is a series of article a few of his quite successful students had written about how Agassiz taught. One these articles was by Samuel H. Scudder—‘In the Laboratory with Agassiz’ 1874 (a year after Agassiz died. “Agassiz’s training in the method of observing facts and their orderly arrangement was ever accompanied by the urgent exhortation not to be content with them. ‘Fact are stupid things,’ he would say, ‘until brought into connection with some general law.’ “
Andy, as I read your article and some of these comments, I asked myself: Have these people actually looked at the weather reported for April 1977 and 1922? Then I asked myself: Have I? Then I started to make excuses like: I don’t know how to access this weather data because it really isn’t current.
Then I thought that this isn’t really the case. For I knew the ready available records of the twice daily atmospheric soundings went back several decades. And sure enough, I found that the ones in Germany did. So I had a record of the common air temperatures and other meteorological data measured before each balloon was launched.
It requires much work to analysis data. So instead of doing this for readers: Instead go to this link:
(https://principia-scientific.com/record-temperature-result-of-cloud-revised-updated/). Which article did not generate one comment.
Andy, I get discouraged when I write that averaging is nonsense and there are no comments to question my conclusion.
Andy, and commenters, ponder this: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” (Einstein)
Have a good day, Jerry
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