Hail fell to create what looked like a covering of snow in Bulgaria on the plain south of the Danube. Antoaneta Vladimirova
By Paul Homewood
h/t Dennis Ambler
This must be what climate breakdown means!
From Al Jazeera:
Traditionally, Britons expect it to be cold and wet on a Bank Holiday Monday, so May 6, 2019, lived up to expectations, with temperatures in the UK a full 15 degrees Celsius below last year’s record-high figures.
Almost the whole of Europe has seen a brief return to a few days of winter-like weather because an Arctic wind blew south as the month of May came in. Temperatures dropped typically at least 10C from one day to the next. The driving force, a centre of low pressure over Scandinavia, seems to be reluctant to move.
Low-pressure centres often bring storms. Snow has fallen in the Netherlands, France, Germany and Switzerland. A gale blew down the Rhone valley, whipping up the Mediterranean. Hail fell thickly from thunderstorms in Bulgaria.
Roads needed to be cleared near Spitzingsee, after a late-spring snowfall in southern Germany. Michael Dalder/Reuters
A cold and, unusually for May, snowy morning in Feniers, central France. Pascal Lachenaud/AFP
Rough conditions offer good practise opportunities as strong winds blow at the Plage du David beach in downtown Marseille as Storm Eleanor hits southern parts of France. Boris Horvat/AFP
Unseasonable May snow in a paddock in Schliersee, southern Germany. The Netherlands, France and Switzerland all saw late-spring snow. Michael Dalder/Reuters
A snowplough clears part of the Gotthard pass that links the north of Switzerland to the south. It is expected to officially reopen at the end of May. Alexandra Wey/EPA-EFE
Fresh snow covers the village of Falcade in the Dolomites, northern Italy. Antonella Schena/EPA-EFE
Early May snowfall in the Alps has reached up to 20 centimetres. Philipp Guelland/EPA-EFE
A man clears snow from a terrace in Vijlen, the Netherlands. The last time there was snow in early May here was in 1979. Marcel Van Hoorn/EPA-EF
Ref.: https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/05/07/in-europe-late-spring-feels-more-like-winter-in-may/
Italy – “Hasn’t snowed like this May for 70 years!!”
Record May snowfall in Switzerland
Austria “Day of Sun” called off because of bad weather
Snowing in Belgium – In May
Frost to destroy large crops over Central Europe
Warmer times are times of success and prosperity for man-kind
“Our current, warm, congenial Holocene interglacial has been the enabler of mankind’s civilisation for the last 10,000 years.” – Ed Hoskins
According to ice core records, the last millennium 1000AD – 2000AD has been the coldest millennium of our current Holocene interglacial. This point is more fully illustrated with ice core records on a millennial basis back to the Eemian warm period 120,000 years ago, here:
Our current, warm, congenial Holocene interglacial, although cooler than the Eemian, has been the enabler of mankind’s civilisation for the last 10,000 years, spanning from mankind’s earliest farming to recent technology.
(Editor’s note: Please be aware that the Eemian Period was warmerthan today. It lasted from about 128,000 years ago to 115,000 years ago, long, long before the industrial revolution began.)
Viewing the current Holocene interglacial on a century by century and on a millennial basis is realistic. But it seems that, driven by the need to continually support the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming thesis / religion Climate scientists and Climate alarmists examine the temperature record at too fine a scale, weather event by weather event, month by month, or year by year.
However, from the broader perspective, each of the notable high points in the current 11,000 year Holocene temperature record, (Holocene Climate Optimum – Minoan – Roman – Medieval – Modern), have been progressively colder than the previous high point.
The ice core record from Greenland for its first 7-8000 years, the early Holocene, shows, virtually flat temperatures, an average drop of only ~0.007 °C per millennium, including its high point known as the “climate optimum”. But the more recent Holocene, since a “tipping point” at around 1000BC, 3000 years ago, has seen temperature fall at about 20 times that earlier rate at about 0.14 °C per millennium.
The Holocene interglacial is already 10 – 11,000 years old and judging from the length of previous interglacial periods, the Holocene epoch should be drawing to its close: in this century, the next century or this millennium.
Nonetheless, the slight and beneficial warming at the end of the 20th century to a Modern high point has been transmuted by Climate alarmists into the “Great Man-made Global Warming Alarm”.
The recent warming since the end of the Little Ice Age has been wholly beneficial when compared to the devastating impacts arising from the relatively minor cooling of the Little Ice Age, which include:
• decolonisation of Greenland
• Black death
• French revolution promoted by crop failures and famine
• the failures of the Inca and Angkor Wat civilisations
• etc., etc.
As global temperatures, after a short spurt at the end of the last century, have already been showing stagnation or cooling over the last nineteen years or more, the world should now fear the real and detrimental effects of cooling, rather than being hysterical about limited, beneficial or probably now non-existent further warming.
Warmer times are times of success and prosperity for man-kind and for the biosphere. For example, during the Roman warm period the climate was warmer and wetter so that the Northern Sahara was the breadbasket of the Roman empire.
But the coming end of the present Holocene interglacial will eventually again result in a mile-high ice sheet over much of the Northern hemisphere.
As the Holocene epoch is already about 11,000 years old, the reversion to a true ice age is becoming overdue. That reversion to Ice Age conditions will be the real climate catastrophe.
With the present reducing Solar activity, significantly reduced temperatures, at least to the level of another Little Ice Age are predicted quite soon, later in this century.
Whether the present impending cooling will really lead on to a new glacial ice age or not is still in question.
https://edmhdotme.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/the-holocene-context-for-anthropogenic-global-warming-2/
Via https://www.iceagenow.info/warmer-times-are-times-of-success-and-prosperity-for-man-kind/
Winter not done with Finland yet