Igloo Germany now recording coldest spring in 40 years!

[lostinblue 1,989]

Germany now recording coldest spring in 40 years! "...Climate experts running out of arguments..."!

P Gosselin

Mon, 27 May 2013 19:06 CDT

The recent weather in Germany indicates everything but global warming and widespread drought, which climate experts have been telling us would be the case unless we stopped burning fossil fuels fast.

© Josef Kowatsch, data from German Weather Service

Germany’s mean temperature trend continues falling sharply (1998 – 2012). 2013 so far is well below normal.

Today the online Augsburger Allgemeine reports that the statistics for the 2013 German meteorological spring (March-April-May) have been 95% tabulated and show that this year's German spring is the "coldest in in decades". The Chiemgau24 news site reports that it is the coldest spring in 40 years.

This past weekend, snow even fell in parts of Germany at elevations down to 600 meters.

No reasons are cited as to why the spring 2013 is so cold. The Arctic is covered with ice and so it can't be an exposed Arctic sea disrupting atmospheric patterns.

Chiemgau24 writes (my emphasis):

March was too cold, April was a little warmer than normal, and May will likely wind up a little colder than normal. [...]

Five colder than normal winters in a row, the coldest March in decades (in the northeast in 130 years) and now the coldest spring in over 40 years...

if that doesn't lead some climate experts to run out of arguments

..."

The Chiemgau24 quotes meteorologist Dominik Jung concerning models:

'Here the long-term weather models from some international weather services had indicated a "warmer than average and sunny April and May". But we got just the opposite. On Sunday morning it even snowed again down to 600 meters elevation,' explained Meteorologist Dominik Jung of the weather portal

www.wetter.net

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'Currently the mean temperature for spring 2013 (calculated from March 1 to May 25) is at 6.1°C. That's the coldest spring in decades. It's been more than 40 years since it's been that cold. In 1970 the average temperature for spring was only 6.0°C,' explains weather expert Jung."

This might be a good time for the German Weather Service to think about dropping it's long outdated temperature chart logo at the header of its website.

http://www.sott.net/article/262184-Germany-now-recording-coldest-spring-in-40-years-Climate-experts-running-out-of-arguments

Der kälteste Frühling seit über 40 Jahren

Landkreis - Geahnt haben es die meisten schon, aber Meteorologen bestätigen nun die schlimmsten Befürchtungen: Das ist der kälteste Frühling seit über 40 Jahren!

Anyone here read German?

[Robby999 1,024]

Apparently the German climate did not get Gore's memo!

[Darnell 8,478]

More Free Ice, that's always a plus. Yay !

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Local weather is not the same thing as global temperature, but by all means do carry on wowing yourself.

[Robby999 1,024]

[OnMyWayID 1,489]

Germany now recording coldest spring in 40 years! "...Climate experts running out of arguments..."!

The recent weather in Germany indicates everything but global warming and widespread drought, which climate experts have been telling us would be the case unless we stopped burning fossil fuels fast.

The prediction is that globally average temperatures will rise.. Local areas would see more extremes in the climate and shifts in yearly patterns - that would include record cold. I'm not sure this would qualify as an extreme but it certainly does not prove global warming does not exist any more than the headlines a few years back showing cherry blossoms in February in D.C. proved there was global warming.

I don't want global warming to be true but what I want to be true is irrelevant - when a large majority of the experts are all telling us the same thing we need to listen, no matter how painful the truth is.

[james&olya 1,121]

A wise man once said "tis better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt". If you cannot grasp the difference between 'weather' and 'climate' you are intellectually incapable of understanding this issue or making intelligent comments about it. But carry on, your tea party friends find your observations and arguments very compelling.

(Directed to OP and his quoted article)

Edited May 28, 2013 by james&olya

[one...two...tree 2,762]

The prediction is that globally average temperatures will rise.. Local areas would see more extremes in the climate and shifts in yearly patterns - that would include record cold. I'm not sure this would qualify as an extreme but it certainly does not prove global warming does not exist any more than the headlines a few years back showing cherry blossoms in February in D.C. proved there was global warming.

I don't want global warming to be true but what I want to be true is irrelevant - when a large majority of the experts are all telling us the same thing we need to listen, no matter how painful the truth is.

best post on climate change in a long time.

[Darnell 8,478]

I likes the Free Ice, always.

[RGinWA 816]

The only evidence of climate change that would suffice for most science deniers would be extinction; and of course that would be reasoned away as God's will.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

The people who were so proud of this post have disappeared.

[Darnell 8,478]

What, no free ice?

[Penny Lane 8,159]

lostinblue doesn't want to defend what he thought was a brilliant thread? Too bad.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Local weather is not the same thing as global temperature, but by all means do carry on wowing yourself.

Not only that but also 40 years cannot be used as a measure for any trend in anything global.

[Boiler 45,670]

So what happened 40 years ago?