UK Breaks Long-Standing Cold Record; Heavy Spring Snow Sweeps Northern India; Antarctica To -77C (-106.6F); + The Sea Ice Fallacy

Alarmists still do not understand basic science.

UK Breaks Long-Standing Cold Record

Britain has been cold of late. UK tabloids are even drawing comparisons to the Tambora eruption of 1816 and the subsequent freeze, calling 2024 'a year without a spring' as thermometers continue to struggle even into late-April.

As reported by the Mirror: "Back in 1816, the enormous eruption of Mount Tambora beckoned in what has become known as the 'Year Without Summer'. The historic blast sent an ash cloud into the atmosphere that blocked out the sun for months on end, killing crops across the world and plunging millions of people into a seemingly never-ending stretch of cold misery."

Comparing 2024 to 1816 is an exaggeration, you don't need me to tell you, but the UK has been cold — a reality that jars with alarmist predictions.

Back in March, senior meteorologist Jim Dale warned of a "frightening” hot summer in April “as a result of climate change". In an interview with GB News, Dale said: "We will see hot weather start to bake in during the course of April."

Wrong.

On Friday, April 27, a low of -6.3C (20.7F) was observed in the Lake District, England -- the lowest temperature ever recorded in the United Kingdom for the date (in books stretching back to the 1800s), beating the -6.1C (21F) set in Glenlivet, Scotland in 1956.

The chill then persisted through the weekend just gone, delivering a low of -5.3C (22.5F) on Sunday. And looking to the next week, the mercury is forecast to continue its struggle to find double-digit highs.

Professor Liz Bentley, chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society, explained to the BBC why things have been so cold: "We’ve got a northerly wind bringing in very cold air from Greenland and the Arctic. There are still frozen seas up there so it’s coming from a very cold direction."

—A natural explanation for the cold, of course; whereas anything hot is inexorably linked to human prosperity, naturally.

Heavy Spring Snow Sweeps Northern India

As a heatwave grips portions of India's south, fierce winter chills and heavy snows are hitting the north — the other side of the story The Guardian et. al refuse to mention.