ENGLAND IS ON FOR ITS COLDEST MAY SINCE RECORD-KEEPING BEGAN BACK IN 1659 (DURING THE MAUNDER MINIMUM)
“…Following its coldest APRIL since 1922, England is now on for its coldest MAY since record-keeping began some 362 years ago–since the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715)!
Back in 1659, England was still processing the death of Richard Cromwell, who, after the execution of King Charles I, had ruled the Commonwealth of England for 5 years. The year 1659 is also the start date of the Central England Temperature (CET) dataset, which has proved an invaluable resource for meteorologists and climate scientists alike. Astonishingly, what the dataset reveals in 2021, in this time of supposed “catastrophic global heating,” is that England is on for its coldest May in more than three and a half centuries (at least).
Even more astonishingly, note that 1659 falls within the early-stages of the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715)–a period of reduced global temperatures correlating with historically low solar activity during which the Sun was often devoid of sunspots for years and even decades at a time. Therefore, what the English are experiencing this May eclipses the extreme lows documented during the last full-blown Grand Solar Minimum.
“Snow in May,” reports the BBC.
“Lake District skiers ‘giddy’ in unseasonal weather,” continues the headline.
Snow started falling on Tuesday, May 4, and was deep enough by Wednesday to allow the Lake District Ski Club to open its slopes. Members were “giddy” at the unusual sight of snow-covered mountains in May, according to club president Mike Sweeney. “I haven’t seen snow at this time of year before,” he said…”
Thanks to: Watts Up With That? even young folks can remember the great warming predictions from just a few short years ago. Many of the old warming predictions have been forced down the memory hole, lest young folks find out how bad climate modelers really are at predicting anything.
Here is what you get when you try to find the story on snowfalls:
But the always questioning climate guys over at Watts up With That anticipated the disappearance, kept screen captures for posterity, and even retained the whole story as a PDF. See below.
Click to access snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-the-independent.pdf
Ah…politicized science. Nothing better!