Europe’s Cold Half Is Ignored; Concordia To -76.1C; Rome Warmed At Night — And Scientists Knew Why In 1983; + Zharkova Is Back

Zharkova is warning that the key test is still ahead, as Solar Cycle 25 declines and the Sun moves toward the next minimum.

Europe’s Cold Half Is Ignored

The latest ECMWF 7-day 2m temperature anomaly map shows Europe split in two:

From May 28 to June 4, western Europe runs warm.

Spain, France, the Low Countries, parts of Germany and the UK sit above the 1991-2020 average.

Eastern Europe runs sharply cold.

The cold pool stretches from the Baltics through Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, the Balkans, western Russia, Turkey and the Black Sea region. The deepest departures reach around 15C below normal.

That puts a vast, heavily populated belt of Europe below normal for at least the next week. A rough population count sees 250-300 million people under warmth in the west, against around 350-400 million under unseasonable cold in the east and southeast.

That is 100 million more people on the cold side than the warm side.

The media will only report the half that fits.

Concordia To -76.1C

Antarctica’s Concordia Station dropped to -76.1C (-105F) on May 28 - its first sub -75C of the season.

That is sharply cold, even for Dome C.

Deep winter readings can approach -80C (-112F), but late May is still early winter. Typical May lows come in around -65C (-85F).

Rome Warmed At Night — And Scientists Knew Why In 1983

Before CO2 swallowed climate science, researchers routinely published on urban warming.