Five days ago we were flocking to the beach, queueing for ice-creams and slathering on the sunscreen.
Yesterday, we were shivering in summer’s first dusting of snow. Yes, snow.
After the hottest spell of the year so far, sleet and snow swept in across northern parts of Britain while the rest of the country also cooled down considerably.
The Cairngorms in Scotland were the chilliest, with temperatures falling to zero while the Pennines and Cumbrian fells managed a mere 3c (37f).
Even by British summer standards, that is a remarkable weather turnaround.
In the Cairngorms, two inches of snow meant visitors were able to build a rather surprised- looking summer snowman.
And in the Pennines, snow was clearly visible on peaks above 2,300ft.
‘It was already a chilly day before heavy rain falling across the Cumbrian fells and the north Pennines helped to lower the temperature sufficiently for the rain to turn to sleet, and then to wet snow,’ said meteorologist Stephen Davenport from the Meteo Group weather forecasters.
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Climate change. At least they can leave their air conditioners off and reduce their carbon footprint.
Someone needs to set their foot in some carbon and then leave their footprint on the butts of those AGW types.
mid island mike
For as long as I can remember one of the points about climate change (usually ignored by climate change deniers) is unstable weather patterns.
… as they say on red neck TV, “Here’s yer sign”
The ground and rooftops are covered in snow here in Medicine Hat this morning . This will definately help . It’s been pretty dry here this spring .
stageleft, perhaps the reason it’s ignored by AGW skeptics is because the Kyoto Protocult stormtroopers do such a poor job of communicating?
Sure, they weep for polarbears (who are neither declining in population nor endangered) and they shriek about ocean levels supposedly rising by metres within years (oops… wrong again!) and they’ve always got time to slag capitalism, evil corporations and anyone who dares to disagree with them. When it comes to finer points like unstable weather patterns, the only mention by the chicken little crowd was that Katrina was a sign of worse things to come and yet such was not the case.
If “signs” were being handed out, there’s more than a few due to your side of the argument but they won’t accept them because “the science is in” even if that’s completely contrary to the scientific method.
And Al Gore has just passed the $100 billion mark selling this snakeoil. What a bunch of suckers. Fat and wealthy and happy to keep on lying about global warming.
Sorry, that should be $100 million. Still heaps of money. (with all the billions and trillions being thrown around in stimulus, you’ll forgive me if I get the terms mixed up once in a while, sheesh)
Just leave it to the left, if there isn’t a crisis that demeans the western civilization, they’ll create one.
Long ago David Suzuki opined that climate change would not be a steady warming so much as a wild fluctuation of weather conditions. Isn’t this basically what we’re seeing right now?