A new “study” is out.
“Britain will have fewer days of ‘extreme cold’ and will enjoy milder winters as a direct result of climate change, according to a new study.
The new research is set to cool growing fears that the Northern Hemisphere could be gripped by more severe winters throughout the next century due to the Arctic warming up.”
In these cases I like to turn to HADCET Daily Minimum data which is available from 1878 on. And I thought I would look at the number of days that the minimum was lower or equal to 0C for each year.
Wow. 2010 had the 6th highest number of days that were 0C or colder. So much for “Global Warming”.
| Year | Days | Longest Coldwave |
| 1879 | 91 | 18 |
| 1917 | 90 | 28 |
| 1887 | 83 | 11 |
| 1888 | 81 | 23 |
| 1892 | 80 | 14 |
| 2010 | 79 | 16 |
| 1963 | 78 | 27 |
| 1895 | 75 | 32 |
| 1909 | 75 | 23 |
| 1891 | 73 | 13 |
What about equal to or less than -5C? Wow! 2010 was 2nd highest with 21 days.
| Year | Days | Longest Coldwave |
| 1963 | 26 | 5 |
| 2010 | 21 | 5 |
| 1895 | 20 | 11 |
| 1892 | 17 | 7 |
| 1940 | 17 | 14 |
| 1881 | 16 | 8 |
| 1985 | 16 | 6 |
| 1879 | 14 | 7 |
| 1962 | 14 | 3 |
| 1878 | 13 | 6 |
