'Winter Heat' is Upon Us, According to Legacy Media, Citing 'Experts™'
Guess what, this is literally 'old news'--in the 1970s, we had the same temps in mid-January, according to Die Welt
As always, translations, emphases, and bottom lines mine. Enjoy, if you will.
Up to 15C next week: Winter heatwave coming to Germany
By Focus Online, in cooperation with The Weather Channel, Jan. 2024 [source]
A series of storms will begin in Germany from Sunday. Not only will it be windy, but temperatures will also rise. A wintry heatwave awaits us, with temperatures of up to 15 degrees next week.
The polar jet stream picks up speed over the North Atlantic and drives the winter weather out of Germany. Several hurricanes [fear!] and two bomb [quick, hide under the table] cyclones are on their way across the Atlantic in the new week. And we will also feel some of them in Germany.
First storm from Sunday evening
It will be stormy in the north and west from Sunday evening. And on Monday, there is a threat of heavy squalls of up to 100 km/h throughout the country. Gale-force winds of up to 120 km/h are also possible on the coast and in the mountains.
There will then be a break in the storms on Tuesday before it starts again on Wednesday with winds as strong as on Monday. There is also a threat of storm surges on the North Sea coast on both Monday and Wednesday.
Winter heatwave next week
But that's not all: very warm air is coming to Germany with the wind. This means not only a massive thaw with a localised risk of flooding, but also a real winter heatwave. [you’re not imagining this, it’s real, I’m telling ya]
Temperatures jump up to 15 degrees. Over several days, it is then more than 5 degrees too warm for this time of year. We can therefore speak of a winter heatwave. So January comes to a mild end.
Is this ‘normal’? I dunno, but it has happened before…
Courtesy of Henning Rosenbusch’s Telegram Channel (where I saw it first), here goes:
Spring in Winter: 15 Degrees [Celsius] Warm
Via Associated Press [lol], Munich | The ‘spring in winter’, which has us in its firm grip for weeks now, reached a new high on Sunday. Aided by warm winds, temperatures reached up to 15 degrees Celsius in some Alpine valleys and in the Bavarian lowlands. Thawing conditions even reached the high mountain ranges, incl. the Zugspitze, Germany’s highest peak, where the record temperature of Zero degrees Celsius, setting a new record for January. As high as 2000 meters above sea level, up to 10 degrees Celsius were recorded. Skiing areas at lower elevations were mostly impossible to use.
Bottom Lines
Remember—literally: do remember!—that virtually nothing hasn’t happened before in some way or another. We just didn’t call it ‘winter heatwave’ or the like.
Also, if you’re interested in such nonsense as 2023 being the ‘hottest year in 125,000 years’, you might find the below postings interesting:
Here, too, nothing new—grift, mainly—under the winter sun.
Don’t overheat (/sarcasm).
I spent Jan 1974 in a 37 deg Celsius environment...
Funny, the first 20 days of january were way below the average januar temperature, but noone mentioned it. The first day its above the average, the hype starts again. We have definitly a human induced wheather forecast.