Record
cold in Poland
!
Minus 41°C on 11th Jan.1940 in Siedlce!
And man has nothing to do with it?
Posted: 07 January 2013
by Arnd Bernaerts
below
1st
Update (07. Jan. 22h)
2nd Update 10th
January 2013
On
11th Januar 1940 temperture dropped to −41.0 °C
(−41.8 °F) in Siedlce/Polen
(52° 10' N, 22°16,2' O) about
100 km east of Warsow. It is the alltime low for
Poland
. HERE
and HERE
Since the 1st of January a cold corridor with less than -10°C
streched from West-Germany eastwards. On January 11, 1940 the
tempertur minimum had been -18.3° and in
Berlin
-22°C. (Source: WZ:
Wetterwerte).
Of
course, the cold record in
Poland
is a whim of heaven, and man has nothing to do with it! Or?
Analysis
of the winter 1939/40
___ „A Large-Scale Experiment with Climate – The Extreme Winter
of 1939/40 and Climate Research –“, PDF, 14 pages; HERE
January
1940, Temperature Map 4, Seite 31
at: www.seaclimate.com;
Chapter C1
Click for enhancement
Potsdam/Germany
- Winter 1939/40 at: http://www.lars-hattwig.de/Wetter5.html
Graphic:
http://www.lars-hattwig.de/wi1939-40.gif
/
1st
Update (07. Jan. 22h)
Graphics with enhancement
A
comparison
between the
Baltic sea
ice conditions on January 11, 1940 and today (07/Jan/2013) may shed
some light on the exceptional situation 73 years ago. While sea ice
started extreme early in the German Bight (on 16/17 December 1939 -
Details HERE
-Chapter 7, sec.h), and
Denmark
followed few days later (Fig. 4), the Baltic Proper remained quite
open well to the end of January (Fig.5).
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Fig.
4, Sea ice around
Denmark
on
15 January 1940
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Fig.5,
Baltic sea
ice cover on
26. January 1940
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The situation today (07 January 2013) is shown in Fig. 6 and 7
(for December 2012 see: HERE).
Fig. 8 gives a temperature forecast for two weeks until 23rd
January. It is interesting to note, that the land areas around the
Baltic have to expect much lower temperature than the sea area.
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Fig. 6, Ice cover on 07. Jan.12
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Fig. 7; Average ice on 11.Jan.
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Fig. 8, T°C forecast 7-23.Jan.13
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2nd
Update 10th January 2013
A
comparison between the situation by mid Jan.1939 and mid Jan. 2013,
the next block shows a number of temperatures 73 years ago, followed
by information concerning today (10. Jan.2013), raised the question
for the reason of this big difference, which presumably is
correlated with to low sea temperatures in the North- and
Baltic Sea
. As already mentioned in the 1st Update, there had been
serious sea ice in the German Bight since the 17/21 December 1939.
January

Fig. 9
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On
the night of the 23rd, a minimum of -23.3C was
recorded at Rhaydaer(Powys) a record low for that date. Other
lows include -20C at
Canterbury
, Welshpool,
Hereford
and
Newport
in
Shropshire
.
Moscow
measured as lowest −42.2 °C (−44.0 °F).
But
as records are only one side of the picture, a brief list of
selected events reported by the New York Times,
NYT, if not otherwise indicated, is herewith produced.
__ January 01: All navigation on
Danube
stopped owing to ice (Frankcom,
1940).
__ January 08: Record frost in Northern and
Central Russia
, -35°C/
-31°F.
__ January 11:
Romania
, -40°C/-40°F.
__ January 11: Sea freezing in the Black Sea near
Odessa
.
__ January 11:
Berlin
, -20°C/-4°F.
__ January 11: Riga –41°C/; Budapest –26°C;Vienna –25°C,
Sofia –22°C (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, NZZ, Jan. 11.)
__ January 13: Soviet Union extreme cold, Don Region –38°C
(NZZ, 14. Jan).
__ January 13:
Riga
, the bitterest cold wave for years (-40°F).
__ January 15:
Warsaw
–40°C/-40°F.
__ January 17: Cold paralyses
Northern Europe
.
Riga
said that the temperature was at freezing point on Monday
morning (January 15) and yesterday morning at 22 degrees below
zero Fahrenheit. Then it tumbled to 47.2 degrees below zero
– a drop of 79.2 degrees in about thirty-six hours.
(NYT, Jan 18).
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January
1940: The cold that made the winter special showed up in
January 1940. Many things happened of which only few can be
mentioned. There was for example the all time record for
Poland
with −41.0 °C /−41.8 °F at Siedlce, Województwo
Mazowieckie, on January 11th 1940. Two weeks later
England
cought up with the cold.
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From: http://www.seaclimate.com/c/c2/c2.html
Date
of the following four maps: 10. January 2013 (Click to scale up)

Fig. 10
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Fig. 11
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Fig. 12
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Fig.13
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See
also the ice- and temperature charts fin the 1st
Update
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