Dartmoor_Matt

One or two 'wintry' showers this afternoon, clear now with temps down to 0.1c and a dewpoint of -1.4C. Light winds from the WNW at 3knts. Pressure 993 and rising.

Overnight low of 0.3C with a slight frost, which lingers in places. Currently 3.1C and sunny with a few broken clouds around, all in all a nice day!

Currently 0.8C feeling like -3.2C in the wind, dewpoint is -0.4C and the wind is coming from the WSW at 14 knots, altho that has varied from time to time to WNW. Thick dark clouds seem to be building out to the west. Overall a mixed day with the temp falling away early morning and two fairly hefty snow showers with hail in between leaving a covering further up (mostly gone now)

Morning all, Currently 3.6C and falling, dewpoint of 1.3C, windchill -0.8C with winds from the W at 14knots. Pressure 977 and steady. Generally overcast and cold out, just had a hail shower, but other than that not alot happening!

Once the showers cleared through the sun came out and the temp climbed to 4.8C (now down to 3.5C) pressure 998 and rising, winds from the SW 11knots and a wind chill of -1.3C. Some dark clouds around but all in all not a bad end to the day.

Currently 0.6C feeling like -3.2C in the wind, started sunny, but by 8.30 there was hail and sleet and at roughly 9am we had a very heavy snowfall for about 15 mins, no lying snow here, but going to guess there is some further up. All cleared through now leaving broken cloud.

Temp around 7.8C after a low of 4.2C earlier today, pressure dropping but still at 1002mb. Winds from the SW with the highest gust at 38mph. Generally overcast with the clouds flying through.

Overnight low of -2.1C (which actually occurred between 8am and 9am) and temps now hovering around 6C altho feeling like 4.1C. Nasty drizzle and general Dartmoor weather. Lovely.

2.5C feeling like -2.3C in the wind, frequent heavy showers with sleet and wet snow mixed in. Clearing now although the wind is still blowing some from the NW. Lovely

Currently 3.4C feeling like -0.8C in the strong northerly wind. Overcast at present, but sunny earlier. Some interestingly dark clouds on the horizon...

An overnight low of -0.9C and the frost remains on areas out of the sun, which is currently (had it not gone down behind the hill) wall to wall. More frost beginning to form in the sheltered areas... its going to be a cold un!

No lying snow up here either this winter so far... oddly.

Temp dropping like a stone currently -2.3C with a dew point of -3.9C winds still from the ENE. All very frosty out!

Currently 1C with a dew point of -0.9C, lovely and clear after all the rain yesterday, but driving was, how can I put it, interesting over the moors this morning! Ponds and grass all still frozen, as are the roads which are starting to re-freeze now the sun has dropped. Winds from the ENE but its barely registering.

Currently 3.8C falling slightly in the last hour, feeling much colder in the wind at -0.2C, overcast with winds from the NE. At least its dry today!

Afternoon, Currently 5.7C and falling slowly since 9am when it was 6.3C, feeling nearer 1C in the wind. Overnight low of 3.5C. Occasional drizzle and overcast all day. Winds straight from the north at 5knts.

Quote from the NOAA: “For the contiguous United States, the average temperature was 30.5°F (-0.83°C) for January, which was 0.3°F (0.2°C) below the 20th century mean and the 49th coolest January on record, based on preliminary data." and "The January global land surface average was below the 20th century mean (-0.02°F/-0.01°C) for the first time since 1982." http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/resear.../jan/jan08.html Overall the Jan 08 temperature was the 31st warmest. Not withstanding snow and cold in some very odd places (Mexico, India and Baghdad (first time in living memory) as wll as widepsread snow over the middle east (Jordon and the Lebanon).

Didn't feel it down here, but felt one a few years back centred in North Devon. As to the comment above that the UK doesn't get very many - on average we have 200 a year, just most aren't felt. Edit: Interestingly that was back in 2001, 3.6 on the scale and was at .... yup 1am

Its all swings and roundabouts, I was up in Fagernes, Oppland Norway a few weeks back and a. the airport was closed more often than it was open due to snow and ice (nasty thing on planes wings) despite the usual clearing methods. b. the locals were moaning about the amount of snow and c. the ski resorts were loving it, best season in a decade. The temps ranged from -4C to -27C while I was there, with the average being -3c to -10c (high low) So its a pretty regional thing, even in such small areas - Southern Norway was experiencing less snow/cold than usual.

Indeed, that was my perception. At least, Greenpeace et al would have us believe that a glacier that is retreating is due to global warming, so no doubt one that is advancing must also be down to global warming. When I was on Franz Josef in NZ they (the guides) said that the more snow that falls at the top, the quicker and further the glacier flowed.

Another 'option' to sterility and I'm not advocating one, or the other, might be to stop sending aid to regions where it is needed, either as disaster relief or war. It would, as the Black Death showed, help to control population growth. Both options have moral issues to address, but both would in the end control populatiom, at least in terms of natural disaster, the latter is less discriminatory. Both are fairly 'extreme' options.

Average temps for Fagernes are High -3C and Low -10C ... so I guess -4C to -27C shows actually cooler than the average but well within the norm, like I said, regional differences abound. That said this report shows what December was like: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/CDB/...ratropics.shtml

I was up in Fagernes (Oppland) two weeks ago, and the temps ranged from -27C to -4C whilst I was there. Chatting to the locals they said that this year was their best year for snow in 12 years, and it was falling like there was no tmrw. Regional and National differences abound.

Another interesting read, the idea that temperature increases are more inline with Pacific Decadal Oscillation and Solar outputs than Co2 can be found here. http://icecap.us/images/uploads/US_Tempera..._since_1895.pdf Or 'simplified' here http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/...etter-than-co2/ Not sure if its been noted before on here, but 5 pages of squabbling isn't worth my time. -Edit- I am merely adding more sources of different evidence, I am not stating which or what I believe.

Or that as with any good statistic it depends on how you take the data.