By P Gosselin on 30. July 2024
After a preliminary tabulation of data collected from its approx. 2000 stations across the country, the results of Germany’s, DWD national weather service in Offenbach show that earlier dramatic predictions of a “hellish summer” have yet to come true. German annual rainfall anomaly. Germany’s been getting wetter – not drier. Image: DWD. False alarmist predictions […]
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By P Gosselin on 26. June 2024
Summer-of-Hell Check By KlimaNachrichten We are almost 1/3 of the way through the meteorological summer. Time to remember the prediction made by suspect biologist Marc Benecke in spring 2024. He had predicted “a summer of hell with almost complete certainty”. We reported. As early as March 2024, some meteorologists raised concerns about this forecast. Shortly after […]
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By P Gosselin on 12. June 2024
Where’s summer? Glaciers in German Alps get a boost as winter appears in June. Image: Zugspitze webcam shot, June 12, 2024 ca. 9 pm. By Klimanachrichten The German DWD Weather Service is asking itself the this question and has no summery prospects until mid-June 2024. The unsettled, sometimes very wet and predominantly cool weather of […]
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By P Gosselin on 21. April 2024
The past winter in Germany was a mild one, as spring arrived early and lots of plants woke up from their winter slumber. But an unusual blast of wintry weather threatens crops and plants as temperatures could drop to minus 8°C by Monday morning in Germany. Winter is back. Image cropped from Wetteronline video here. […]
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By P Gosselin on 24. March 2024
What follows are excerpts from EIKE Unexpected snow in Saudi Arabia In the desert of Afif, west of Riyadh, it snowed unexpectedly, both citizens and tourists were shocked. The significant drop in temperatures was expected with strong north-westerly winds making it even colder. Last year (2023), parts of Saudi Arabia saw its first snowfall in 100 […]
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By P Gosselin on 19. March 2024
Cold report No. 11 / 2024 By Chris Frey, Christian Freuer for EIKE. Excerpts translated by P. Gosselin Photo: © P. Gosselin Heavy snowfall hit large parts of Europe recently, including southern Spain. Several provinces in the Andalusia region remain under a snow warning following a “wintry” weekend, according to the Spanish weather authority Aemet, after […]
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By P Gosselin on 3. March 2024
Germany’s DWD national weather service reports that the country saw it’s third warmest winter on record (since 1881) and the 13th warmer than normal winter in a row. Germany’s 2023/24 winter was among the warmest and wettest on record going back to 1881. Photo: Artland Region, northwest Germany, by P. Gosselin Record February high Moreover, […]
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By P Gosselin on 31. January 2024
Extended spring like weather also occurred in Europe 50 years ago It’s been mild across Europe, bringing some relief from the hardships of winter. Yet, the media again is reporting the mild weather as if it’s something bad, which has never happened before. But of course, this is not true. What follows is a newspaper […]
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By P Gosselin on 13. January 2024
We keep hearing how we’re all supposed to believe in models – even those of highly complex, poorly understood systems like weather and climate. Yet, their outputs keep changing. Hat-tip Snowfan here. Back on December 22, last year, the National Weather Service (NWS) forecast a warmer than normal February 2024: But it has since turned […]
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By P Gosselin on 1. December 2023
The preliminary data from the approx. 2000 DWD German national weather service have been tabulated for autumn (September-October-November) 2023. It is the second warmest in Germany since measurements began in 1881. The period from January to November 2023 is also in second place with an average of 11.2 °C. Uwe Kirsche, spokesperson for the German […]
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By P Gosselin on 25. November 2023
2°C downward correction Overall the NOAA had been forecasting a very mild winter for this year. But that forecast has been cooled down a bit, at least the early part of the winter. The NOAA’s latest GFS run has substantially cooled the temperature outlook for December. In its earlier projection, it saw December in Europe […]
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By P Gosselin on 15. November 2023
Surface temperatures measured where people live show there’s as much cold as there ‘s warmth, see temperature.global.com. Christian Freuer’s Cold Report (EIKE) and Electroverse.com Snowpack extent in US reaches record levels! America’s first Arctic air blast of the season broke hundreds of low temperature records and led to the largest snowpack extent there in early […]
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