A chance to counterbalance a few of the ‘rapid warming’/’boiling planet’ summer outbursts of climate obsessives. The BBC says a weather station in northern Sweden recorded its coldest night (-43.6C) for 25 years, i.e. since 1979 when satellite weather data became widely available.
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People who got trapped in 1,000 vehicles in heavy snow for more than 24 hours have been evacuated, Swedish authorities say.
Rescuers worked through the night to free people stuck on the main E22 road in the Skane area of southern Sweden, reports BBC News.
Many of those trapped were evacuated by rescue teams and told to return to their cars later.
The travel chaos occurred amid plummeting winter temperatures across the Nordic countries.
Extreme cold weather has hit parts of Sweden, Finland and Norway, and snow storms in Denmark have left drivers trapped on a motorway near Aarhus since Wednesday.
The Kvikkjokk-Arrenjarka weather station in northern Sweden recorded its coldest night for 25 years on Tuesday night, with temperatures dropping to -43.6C.
Full report here.
Meanwhile, same old yawn…
It seems that the alarmists do not care that they got it wrong.
I live in Sweden, so this is news to me. No surprise … MSM here tend to only report about when it “hot”. According to their opinion, cold is not of public interest, so …
Railroads are not working like they did last century. Up north, the excuse is that they do not want to risk people, if trains are stuck in the cold. One reason is that they are using electrical engines made in France and Italy, that doesn’t work when it’s cold. Swedish ABB shut down their engine manufacturing some years ago, unfortunally. Back in the days, when the railroads was working here, they used steam engines and later diesel engines. Many people are sarcastically wondering why it doesn’t work here, but in Canada, Siberia and the Alpine regiion in Europe …
Funny enough, people representing the French engine manufacturer Alstom was visiting Sweden recently. They got stuck nereby Västerås … (ABB home town, ~100 km west of Stockholm) I would guess the train was using a Alstom engine …
[…] Swedish snow chaos leaves 1,000 vehicles trapped on main Euro route as temperatures fall as low as -… […]
I wonder how EV’s went in this weather? Or perhaps didn’t go.
Cold in the north; its just past earth perihelion and earlier winter solstice. And a planetary plus moon alignment conducive to extreme temps.
Attention New York Times ‘end of snow’ climate propagandists…
JANUARY 5, 2024
Winter storm threatens travel chaos on US east coast
Forecasters warned on Friday that a deluge of snow and wintery conditions could bring travel chaos to the US northeast this weekend, with some 25 million people subject to a storm warning.
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“We anticipate heavy, wet snowfall across various regions, potentially causing power outages and hazardous travel. I urge New Yorkers to be vigilant,” said governor Kathy Hochul in a statement.
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-winter-storm-threatens-chaos-east.html
And lowest as far back as 1979 in one or two places at least.
Could some UK rivers freeze over?
Waves of Arctic air are falling on the west and midwest of the US. Frost.
Pray Europe! Jetstream forecast for January 11.
The Sun is the creator.
Still cold even in southern Sweden today. Q for climate obsessives – is this from the ‘rapidly warming’ Arctic?
Pray Europe and get the fuel ready.
https://i.ibb.co/hC73M9S/hgt300.webp
Finland’s energy supplies feeling the strain…
Europe’s Natural Gas and Power Prices Jump as Cold Snap Begins
Jan 05, 2024
Power prices in Finland jumped to record-high levels as a deep freeze in Europe began in the Arctic parts of the Nordic countries and is set to move south to northwest Europe in the weekend and next week, creating additional energy demand and leading to higher electricity and natural gas prices.
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Day-ahead power prices in Finland hit a record-high and grid operator Fingrid warned on Friday that “The prolonged period of very severe frost across Finland continues to challenge the adequacy of electricity output.” [bold added]
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Europes-Natural-Gas-and-Power-Prices-Jump-as-Cold-Snap-Begins.html
‘prolonged period of very severe frost’ – behold the amazing versatility of the ‘rapidly warming’ Arctic 😉
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Guardian weather tracker is strangely ‘unaware’ of all this so far 🙄
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/series/weather-tracker
Snowfall is beginning in England as a result of the “lake effect” as frigid winds from the east blow over the warmer North Sea.
http://tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mtpw2/product.php?color_type=tpw_nrl_colors&prod=europe×pan=24hrs&anim=html5
America and Europe get ready plenty of fuel. The polar vortex is attacking.
Sweden sees coldest weather in 25 years
Sweden on Wednesday recorded its coldest January night in 25 years, with a reading of minus 43.6 degrees Celsius in the far north as a cold snap hit the Nordics.
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Lind said that Wednesday’s measurement was made at the Kvikkjokk-Arrenjarka station in Sweden’s far north.
“It is the lowest temperature that has been recorded in this specific spot since measurements began” in 1888, he said.
Several other stations recorded temperatures of below minus 40C in Sweden’s north.
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-sweden-coldest-weather-years.html