How Germany’s weather team views the “hottest year ever”

You may have heard on the news a couple of weeks ago that 2010 was on track to being the "hottest year ever" and wondered how they worked that out in the middle of November. Well they really wanted to get in before the cold weather of a La Nina winter in the northern hemisphere spoilt the party. And now in Germany the betting is on a colder year than average!

From WUWT:

How Germany’s weather team views the “hottest year ever”

Speculation Alert: “New Little Ice Age Cannot Be Ruled Out”

Everybody is talking about global warming – but in Germany and also in many other countries around the world people are currently fighting with the adversities of extreme cold. And indeed: “The year 2010 will be the coldest for ten years in Germany,” said Thomas Globig from the weather service Meteo Media talking to wetter.info . And it might even get worse: “It is quite possible that we are at the beginning of a Little Ice Age,” the meteorologist said. Even the Arctic ice could spread further to the south.

It is already clear: the average temperatures in Germany this year (8.1 degrees Celsius) were 0.2 degrees below the long term measured average of 8.3 degrees. “I fear we will end up still significantly lower by the end of the year”, said Globig. The long-term average is actually the average of all German stations from 1961 to 1990.

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