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Surely if you hope to record the day's minimum it needs to be out all day? If you wanted to just compare readings at a set time over the year at a set time then 9am or possibly noon (GMT?) would be a reasonable choice. 9am is the traditional start and end of a day's records for the Met Office - when readings were taken manually it was at that time so far as possible.

http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/10090160.Heavy_snow_causing_chaotic_driving_conditions_on_North_York_Moors/

Primary school was sent home early as the roads are terrible. It snowed so heavily salt was just covered up and they don't do the minor roads anyway. There's about 3" lying, still rather wet but during showers it chills down and begins to blow off roofs etc.

A few minutes ago, it was far heavier at times.

'Torrential' snow showers here, 2" in about 30 minutes. With wind swirling large flakes about, it was like being in a snow globe.

Quite dry and heavy snow falling - blowing in the wind too 0.3C

Half inch here, it has barely been below freezing but mainly cloudy so more snow is likely.

Heavy traffic and a severe early winter snowstorm resulted in gridlocked roads and some drivers are still stranded in their vehicles. http://news.msn.com/...a-traffic-jam-3

Ground temps must be low, it's been dry and breezy overnight with min of 2.4C but still have areas of snow hardly changed from late yesterday.

Most of the events being touted as made worse or caused by reduced ice or warming could equally well be ascribed to recent cooling. If warming causes instability and 'worse than we thought' weather, wouldn't that have been most evident in the late 90s when we had an indisputably warm year or two? The last ten years have actually cooled slightly. http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2002/to:2012/plot/hadcrut4gl/from:2002/to:2012/trend/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:2002/to:2012/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:2002/to:2012/trend

I was surprised how patchy snow cover is locally. Just two miles nearer the coast there was very little. This was a few minutes ago at 4C so it is melting steadily now.

If you look at the points made rather than trying to discredit the source because it's a blog (?), there clearly was a sudden decision to start using 14C as the long term average rather than 15C. Why would that be. Do we get any clues from the source of the change? It seems to make it easier to imply warming when you can say the years average was 14,6C so that's 0.6C up rather than 0,4C down on long term average.

Going back to the article about livestock deaths, that incident simply sounds like a poorly managed drilling site and not specifically related to fracking at all. The writer presumably does not have a clue about what is normal procedure when drilling. When they drill for anything be it oil gas or water the material is brought to the surface as a slurry and there is some contamination with lubricants and such from the cutting head. In the UK it is normally tankered away for treatment at specialist plants but in the US it must be considered acceptable to store it on site in a bunded lagoon. In this incident it would seem this was not sufficiently impermeable. A drilling incident not a fracking incident. So another alarmist fail unfortunately.

There's been about 2 inches, it is slushy and thawing steadily now at 1.6C

Meanwhile: Serious pollution in China as a result of processes required to create parts for wind turbines. http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz1g3651dQ4

14 is the new 15 http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/fourteen_is_the_new_fifteen.html

Climate models consistently exaggerate warming. The multimodel average tropospheric temperature trends are outside the 5–95 percentile range of RSS results at most latitudes. The likely causes of these biases include forcing errors in the historical simulations (40–42), model response errors (43), remaining errors in satellite temperature estimates (26, 44), and an unusual manifestation of internal variability in the observations (35, 45). These explanations are not mutually exclusive. Our results suggest that forcing errors are a serious concern. http://landshape.org/enm/santer-climate-models-are-exaggerating-warming-we-dont-know-why/

What is the Green's preferred alternative option to maximising gas powered generation anyway. Somehow doing away with 3 billion people is not allowed. And energy saving lightbulbs won't cut it.

Maybe they could try to blame it on Monsanto and GM crops instead? A lot of chemicals are potentially toxic, an isolated incident highlighted by some obsessive campaign group does not mean the process is inherently unsafe.

Wind has dropped away through the day and with clear skies it was below freezing by sunset. -1.1C now. There is a bit of high cloud to the west already.

A very penetrating frost due to strong WNW wind, even though the minimum has been just -0.3C

It's certainly bitter out there this afternoon at 1.3C with wind gusting to 20mph the windchill is as low as -5C. Light snow cover retained on high ground at least inland a bit, and ground has barely thawed although the white frost was washed away in the sleety rain overnight.

There's snow cover here above about 1000feet. Similar sudden jump of 2C immediately before precipitation though.

It will be 5.7C here, I see the year mean is now below 9C at 8.9. Our 2011 mean was 9.5C and we have a chilly sounding month to go to drop it further this year.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/moscow-sees-heaviest-november-snowfall-in-50-years-wintry-conditions-in-germany-central-europe/2012/11/29/e2d4d3a0-3a5b-11e2-b01f-5f55b193f58f_blog.html It says 8" here, still surprising they got caught out. I guess these days the traffic levels are more like our urban areas whilst in the past you used to see mainly 4x4 trucks, a few old Ladas and the occasional Limousine.