Late-May Cold Still Showing Up; Britain’s Climate Emergency Lasted Three Days; + Politician Discovers Cheap Energy — Just In Time For AI
When ordinary households and industries needed cheap power, Net Zero came first. When the elites want cheap power, Net Zero is all of sudden negotiable.
Late-May Cold Still Showing Up
India is about to shed several degrees.
The India Meteorological Department expects northern India to lose as much as 8C from May 28-30 as a fresh Western Disturbance rolls in. For locals, this is welcome relief. On the map, it is a sharp late-May cool-down:
Russia is warning of late frosts.
Hydromet alerts have frosts in Karelia this week.
In Krasnoyarsk, Khakassia and Tuva, temperatures locally down to -2C (28.4F) have been reported. Irkutsk is under frost warnings through May 29, with overnight temperatures dipping to -3C (26.6F).
Northwest Russia is also holding cold. Wet snow fell in Murmansk. Frost warnings also cover Leningrad, Pskov and Novgorod on May 28-29, again down to -2C (28.4F).
California is getting another late-season shot of winter.
Tioga Road through Yosemite has been closed because of snow risk. Nearby Sierra passes, including Sonora, Monitor and Ebbetts, were also temporarily shut. Continued freezing nights are forecast at elevation.
Speaking briefly to the Southern Hemisphere...
Chile is watching frost too.
Official Chilean frost warnings are active from May 28 onward, including “white and black frost.”
Southern Africa has another snow signal on the charts.
And finally, Snow Report South Africa warns of possible snowfall from June 3-5 over the Eastern Cape Highlands, the Drakensberg peaks and Lesotho, including high ground around Rhodes and Barkly East.
Britain’s Climate Emergency Lasted Three Days
On Monday, Kew Gardens reached 34.8C (94.6F), beating the old UK May record of 32.8C (91F) from 1922 and 1944. On Tuesday, Kew reached 35.1C (95.2F), while Heathrow hit 35C (95F). Kew Gardens and Heathrow. Again.
One is inside London’s vast urban heat island. The other is an airport surrounded by tarmac, traffic, buildings, service roads and jet activity. The readings were not fake, exactly, but the context was stripped out almost immediately.
A short late-May ridge pushed heat into England. Clear skies, sinking air and a hot continental feed did the rest. The south and southeast spiked, the usual stations performed, and the headlines painted the pattern as evidence of catastrophe, shamefully folding nine tragic drowning deaths into the heat narrative.
