The Ice Age Cometh! Forget Global Warming!

We had cold windy weather yesterday, and even snow later in the day and night. There are still some snowflakes flying around (in the occasional sunlight, that's weird), temperaures around 0°C (-1 to +3 or so). We had some nice and warm weather days prior as well, but now some cold icy stream coming from north straight into Germany.
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Cold here in the south west of England today, with hail showers for much of the morning...only a few days ago I was in the garden in single layers, looking for shade from the sun!
Here in SW France today temps forecast above freezing for the rest of the week with overnight dips down to near freezing, 1C. A hard freeze would be devastating to the fruit growers, who dominate this region, as the trees are just now flowering. Hopefully the dire forecasts for the region will not be as harsh as predicted. The locals have a rule of thumb; don't plant until April 21st. This has been learned from experience. I will resist the urge to get a head start with the tomatoes for a couple of weeks.

We might dodge the bullet this year but the trend will eventually catch up with us.
When I lived in Scotland, the rule of thumb was "Ne'ar cast a cloot til May is oot." Keep ya vest on, in other words, until the beginning of June! Cloot being the shortened version of "clootie", a rag. But cloot is also a cloven hoofed creature, so could also refer to turning livestock into the fields only when the threat of bad weather has passed? I was speaking with my Mum last week, discussing the forecast for this cold spell and she told me of the time she was in hospital, 53 or so years ago. It was June, the south east of England and it was snowing! All the ladies in the ward were huddled up under the covers...a week later, it was so hot they were all lying above the covers, not sleeping at night because of the heat!
 
Another thing they could do is fill his pockets with chalk and release him into the stratosphere to see how much of the sun's energy he blocks out.
I'd be happy with that!

Apparently, the plan is on hold until they can get more support, via lobbying...
 
Some recent images from southern Europe of the severe cold wave hitting the region:


Comprehensive coverage of the record-breaking situation in most of Europe here -


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Many areas in Slovenia reached their coldest April morning over the last 100 years! The official meteorological station Nova vas na Blokah peaked at -20.6 °C which has set a new all-time national record for the month of April since the records began. Numerous extreme cold records also across other parts of central and western Europe, deep freeze and morning frosts have been destructive.

As we expected, the weather models were not wrong this time. An unpreceded extreme cold has verified across many parts of Europe this Wednesday morning, following the significant and historic snow a day before. Snowfall with some accumulation was reported even at the seaside in Slovenia and Croatia islands (Kvarner area).

In Slovenia, the weather station Nova vas na Blokah hit -20.6 °C and set the new official lowest temperature for April (the previous record at the station Nova vas was -18.0 °C set on April 4th, 1970). There was another record of -26.1 °C recorded with an unofficial weather station in the village Retje near Loški Potok.

The previous official record for Slovenia was held by station Pokljuka (elevation approx 1350 m ASL), with -20.4 °C set back on Apr 9th, 1956.

Many areas across the northern Balkans have seen even lower temperatures than they were during the last winter 2020/21. In the case of the Notranjska region in Slovenia (e.g. stations Nova vas na Blokah, Postojna, and Babno Polje) this was the colder morning of the winter.

2021 set a new record having temperatures lower in April than January. Even if it happens in March, it is extremely rare. This is just a plain example of how extremely cold and historic event this event and this morning was for April.

The main reason for these extreme cold records is the Arctic cold air mass that spread across a large part of Europe this week. Clear (no clouds) nights with barely any winds and fresh snow on the ground with dry air mass in the mid-levels are an ideal recipe for extremely cooling in the nighttime hours.

Unfortunately, these temperatures were so extremely low that the ongoing blossoming fruit trees and early growing states of the vegetation were simply burned and destroyed.

Very low temperatures with record-breaking cold and damaging frost ware also reported from parts of England, France, Germany, around the Alps, Italy, and Croatia...

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Record-breaking cold in Alaska (from yesterday):


The historic cold blast settling into Alaska at the end of the week sent temperatures plummeting far below zero, so cold, in fact, as to topple several long-standing records.

Fairbanks dropped to a staggering 27 degrees below zero on Friday, smashing the century-old record of 16 below zero from 1911.
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In this article (Sweden Axes Gates’s Mad Global Warming Scheme) Mr. Engdahl talks about ice age and the sun and volcanoes... Look what he says at the end of the article :


Some 200 years ago we had the last Grand Solar Minimum period, known to scientists as the Dalton Minimum, in the beginning of the 19th century. In 1816, the cloud cover across the planet was so severe that it was known as the Year With No Summer.The Dalton Minimum lasted from circa 1790 – 1820. In 1815 a huge volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded human history, spewed so much volcanic ash into the atmosphere that in 1816 Thomas Jefferson recorded in his weather diary in Virginia the absence of summer sun. It triggered extreme weather and harvest failures in many areas around the world. Frost and snow in North America during June 1816 destroyed most agriculture crops. Globally it was the worst famine of the 19th Century. The huge volumes of volcanic ash in the atmosphere lasting more than one year from Tambora reflected significant amounts of solar radiation, causing unseasonably cool summers that contributed to food shortages.


The evidence that we are in the early stages of a Grand Solar Minimum similar to that of the 19th Century or worse is compelling. Sumatra’s incredibly active Sinabung Volcano has exploded in spectacular fashion March 2, sending volcanic ash 40,000 feet high into the atmosphere. Particulates ejected to altitudes above 32,800 feet (10 km) –and into the stratosphere– have a direct cooling effect on the planet. Iceland, the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, and other eruptions in recent weeks suggest we may be in for far more dramatic climate shocks than the self-appointed global climate czar Bill Gates admits. Gates, the Davos World Economic Forum and countless grant-hungry climate “scientists” refuse to consider the solar reality, instead pursuing such mad projects as chemical dimming of the sun. The trillions of dollars projected to be spent on inefficient solar and wind energy, indicates their agenda has nothing to do with health of the planet, nor of us. We can be sure those scientists who advise Gates re fully aware of solar cycles.Give them credit on one point, they are masters of deception.


All the article here
 
Frost warnings have been issued to fruit growers in France, and it seems that the meandering jet stream is partly to blame.
That cold snap cost the French wine industry alone about 2 billion eur in lost grapes:

France Declares Emergency as Freak Cold Snap Wipes Out One-Third of Wine Crop​

Sputnik, 16 Apr 2021

An estimated €2 billion-worth of production has been lost after an early warm spell that encouraged grape vines and fruit trees to blossom was followed by a cold snap that killed them off. That came after the industry lost €1 billion in exports last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

France has declared a national emergency after one-third wine production has been lost to rare spring frosts.

‌French Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie hyperbolically described the crisis as "probably the greatest agricultural catastrophe of the beginning of the 21st century" this week, and the government declared an "agricultural emergency".
 
Frost warnings have been issued to fruit growers in France, and it seems that the meandering jet stream is partly to blame.

From Sky News Australia on the recent record freezing temperatures around the globe.


It includes a clip from Tony Heller (Real climate science) who notes that the same 'wavy jet stream' diagram being used by NOAA to explain these cold temps from the polar vortex due to 'global warming' was also being used back in the 1975 by Science News to explain 'global cooling' and the coming ice age. :whistle:


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Well, all I can say is that if this really is the beginning of an Ice Age, it's all over but the crying. It will impact pretty much within a year, I think, but will take several years for the full disaster to manifest.
 
Dr. Tim Ball has mostly been in the background these last number of years since his court case, however he still is posting on Twitter - many useful links that he picks up on (some of them have been posted here).

For instance, Ball recently posted this one on Twitter: Arctic seas jammed with new ice:


"The department in a report said sea ice in northern Canadian waters covered 1,040,000 square kilometres last year compared to 820,000 sq.km. Sea ice coverage in 2020 was larger than in 1998 or 2008.

Figures were based on satellite imagery. Researchers did not cite any figures compiled prior to 1968."






https://twitter.com/pplonia
 
ADAPT 2030, posted 4/16/21 Subjects: Volcanos, La Nina, and hurricanes. (I was looking for someone to report on volcanic dust in the upper atmosphere) 😊 and the second video is also adapt 2030 specifically “signs of volcanic cooling” Posted 2 days later on the 18th. He wanders off a bit, but it’s all good. Being in Phoenix ( presently in catastrophic drought level 4, and just pasted the hottest summer in history) it doesn't feel very wintery, but that's all part of the spotty weather as we enter into this time period. But, if the Beaufort Gyre lets go, then I suppose it could all change within a few weeks.


 
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