Britain to be hit by worst snow blizzards in a century

[RichardCranium]

Blizzard here in Luton, 20 ft snow drift, house practically buried. Not long before the air runs out.

Bedwetter.

Mecury has fallen from 6 to 2 degrees in the last 30 minutes

You'd think it would be hot there, wot with it being so near the sun.

Is that it? Is that the worst the Arctic can muster?

I've seen more snow in one of those shakey Christmas scene bottles.

Get yer arse up to Warrington. In the Golden Square Shopping Centre there is a 20' high snowglobe. You get inside, some giant crane shakes it to make the snow fly*, then they take your picture.

Glasgow is cold

So what else is new?





* I assume that's how they shake it.

[MrMark]

We're going down to Gatwick for a 6am Sunday flight.

We're leaving East Mids at noon tomorrow...

Hope they clear things before then. According to the news clips it's already snowing heavily at Gatwick; I fear you may be in for a bit of a wait. Good luck.

[doodab]

Everything seems to be working in Bavaria.

[TimberWolf]

I was surprised to hear that today is the busiest day for airports - 'the big getaway'. How sensible, though having seen how busy airports are in 'peak season', which I thought was summer, it's hard to imagine how busy the airports are, or would have, been.

Edit: In later reports I heard them say 'busiest day of the festive season' and 'holiday season'. So it may not be the busiest airport day of the entire year today, I probably misheard the first time.

[DimPrawn]

Worth repeating this

Let's see what the Global Warming expert scientists that must not be questioned said specifically about Britain's climate back in 2007.

How climate change will affect Britain's weather | Environment | The Guardian

So what can Britain expect as the blanket of greenhouse gases around the planet thickens? Overall, there will be a shift towards a more Mediterranean-style climate. Scientists last week said the closest current match for the weather expected in London by 2071 is the Portuguese town of Vila Real.

As the temperature nudged record levels last summer, the Met Office said that we should get used to such prolonged periods of settled, dry weather. "There is a significant human contribution to these heatwaves because of carbon dioxide emissions over recent decades ... This is a sign of things to come, with the current temperatures becoming a normal event by the middle of the century."

Three years ago Peter Stott, a Met Office expert, and scientists at Oxford University showed that human emissions of greenhouse gases had more than doubled the risk of record-breaking heatwaves such as the one that is reckoned to have killed 27,000 people across Europe in 2003. "We know that 2003-type hot summers and associated heatwaves won't happen every year, but continuing manmade global warming will increase the chance." By the 2040s, one summer in two is predicted to be hotter than 2003.

According to the most recent report from the programme, which was published in 2002, temperatures in the UK are expected to rise about by 0.4C each decade. The warming will reflect existing weather patterns across the UK, so the north-west of the country will warm the least and the south-east will see the biggest rise. Warmer winters means less snowfall across the country. Changes in rainfall are likely to lead to drier summers and wetter winters.



So basically wet and warm winters with NO snow, certainly not cold, very hot dry "barbeque" summers.

Our taxes fund these cretins.

[dang65]

Our taxes fund these cretins.

But Magister, did not those same taxes fund your own peerless education as well? And are there not more of you, the nay-sayers, than there are believers in this "climate change" mumbo-jumbo? All those nay-sayers were also educated with tax money. So what if a bit of that tax has gone into advanced scientific knowledge which has consistently concluded that humans are changing the planet's climate (as opposed to the weather in England for a couple of days). They are wrong, and you are right. You have told us so, great teacher, simply by looking out of the window. Science can't hope to match such proof as that. It's right there in, er, white-and-white. Next... to disprove the Theory of Evolution simply by going to the zoo and looking at a duck-billed platypus.

[DimPrawn]

But Magister, did not those same taxes fund your own peerless education as well? And are there not more of you, the nay-sayers, than there are believers in this "climate change" mumbo-jumbo? All those nay-sayers were also educated with tax money. So what if a bit of that tax has gone into advanced scientific knowledge which has consistently concluded that humans are changing the planet's climate (as opposed to the weather in England for a couple of days). They are wrong, and you are right. You have told us so, great teacher, simply by looking out of the window. Science can't hope to match such proof as that. It's right there in, er, white-and-white. Next... to disprove the Theory of Evolution simply by going to the zoo and looking at a duck-billed platypus.

Wow, some bollox you spout, eh?

[dang65]

Let's see what the Global Warming expert scientists that must not be questioned said specifically about Britain's climate back in 2007.

A whole three years ago.

So what can Britain expect as the blanket of greenhouse gases around the planet thickens? Overall, there will be a shift towards a more Mediterranean-style climate. Scientists last week said the closest current match for the weather expected in London by 2071 is the Portuguese town of Vila Real.

So maybe we can meet back here in 60 years and judge whether he was right, or you were right.

Seriously dude... "it's snowing, so climate change must be a myth"? Don't you feel even a little bit silly coming out with a statement which has come to define ignorance of Science even more blatantly than "Little Baby Jesus made the World last Tuesday"?

[DimPrawn]

A whole three years ago.



So maybe we can meet back here in 60 years and judge whether he was right, or you were right.

Seriously dude... "it's snowing, so climate change must be a myth"? Don't you feel even a little bit silly coming out with a statement which has come to define ignorance of Science even more blatantly than "Little Baby Jesus made the World last Tuesday"?

A brilliant ruse. Global Warming is happening and Britain will be hotter than southern Portugal, but only far enough into the future that you cannot prove me wrong. In the meantime the world can freeze and Britain can have a mini ice age, and we can all pay double Carbon taxes every year.

Nice scam.

[dang65]

A brilliant ruse. Global Warming is happening and Britain will be hotter than southern Portugal, but only far enough into the future that you cannot prove me wrong.

I know, it's such a con isn't it. Also, giraffes haven't changed at all in the last hundred years, and yet those science fools think that they 'evolved'. They're obviously exactly the same as the day Baby Jesus first made them, and so is the weather. Look at all that snow! What more proof could you need that the climate isn't changing? Mind you, we did have that really hot day in the summer. I dunno, maybe they could be on to something.