Sun's Back

No more snow and the spectacular sunrises & sunsets are back although as one can see in this evening's photo, we will be getting some fog the next few days as there is a big high sitting over Europe.

The strange thing is that the day time maximum temperature of -2°C is barely getting any colder at night, maybe -4°C. With these conditions, we ought to be getting into double minus figures. In the 00s, we would regularly have nighttime temperatures of -10 to -20°C and maximum daytime -5°C to -10°C. Report on TV today that even Moscow is sweltering in record January temperatures of -3°C.

Not that far from here, a big Orange balloon was proclaiming today's youth as "the heirs of yesterday's foolish fortune tellers".and decried the "prophets of doom" in a speech of "only self-praise, ignorance, disregard for everyone, no perception of global problems.

The USA will yet save the world when we all follow the Trump standards on the environment "“I’m proud to report the United States has among the cleanest air and drinking water on Earth -- and we’re going to keep it that way. And we just came out with a report that, at this moment, it’s the cleanest it’s been in the last 40 years.”