Forecasters say this winter could be the coldest Europe has seen in the last 1,000 years.
Hmmm, solar activity at an all time low, temps plummet.
Looking back through history, solar activity (or the lack thereof) seems to have pretty much dictated the weather and climate on Earth.
Conclusion. It's mankind's fault for Globular Woerming, err... Climate Change, not any changes in the glowing ball of fusing Hydrogen that is cause of all life and energy on this planet.
It's funny. Apparently this is prediction we can all get behind. Not those other predictions though.
You're right about the solar minimum, which is what makes the US September temperature record slighly more interesting, though overall largely irrelevant.
That said, that chart said the Texas Gulf Coast would be below average in snowfall. Since the average snowfall is ZERO snow, what does below average mean?
I hope we get a hardcore cold winter to kill off the pine beetles!
So no interest in the US temperature record for September then?
We've had threads about cold in Argentina, but nothing about the heat in Russia. Now we've got a thread about a predicted cold winter, but nothing about the hottest US September on record (during a solar minimum as pointed out earlier).
None of these things mean anything in the wider climate particularly, but then I'm not the one starting the threads.
According to that map, Florida will have normal snowfall.
It snows in Florida?
So no interest in the US temperature record for September then?
We've had threads about cold in Argentina, but nothing about the heat in Russia. Now we've got a thread about a predicted cold winter, but nothing about the hottest US September on record (during a solar minimum as pointed out earlier).
None of these things mean anything in the wider climate particularly, but then I'm not the one starting the threads.
So no interest in the US temperature record for September then?
We've had threads about cold in Argentina, but nothing about the heat in Russia. Now we've got a thread about a predicted cold winter, but nothing about the hottest US September on record (during a solar minimum as pointed out earlier).
None of these things mean anything in the wider climate particularly, but then I'm not the one starting the threads.
Oh, and Iain, I don't trust any of the temperature records being put out by GISS and the MET and whatnot. After having them scream several times about the area I live in suffering the HOTTEST MONTH/SEASON/YEAR EVAR, when I know darn well that it wasn't that hot (in some cases 10degF cooler), I have no faith whatsoever in their records.
Apparently thanks the strong La Nina building out in the Pacific, us here in the PNW are supposedly going to get a lot more precipitation and it's supposed to get a lot colder this winter. Given how bad the snow was the last (albiet weaker) La Nina I'm not looking forward to this winter.
I don't buy this "La Nina and El Nino" baloney. It happens every year. It gets token lip service from the weatherman on the nooz as if it were an event that DIDN'T happen every freaking day. It's a weather pattern that meteorologists have only discovered in the last few years and they're still patting each other on the back, so they need to remind us peons that they now see it.
Sounds like the plot from Fallen Angels.
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More winters of discontent.
More winters of discontent.
Did you just say "Winter of discount tent?
It's "The winter of our discount tent." =D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DMcPLhyO6s
Starts at 5:06
Other places it does different things. E.g. La Nina encourages stronger Atlantic hurracaines because it reduces the upper altitude wind shear over the tropical Atlantic that would otherwise tear cyclones apart. El Nino does the opposite. There's been quite a few Cat 3+ 'caines this year. They've just all been "fish storms" so they haven't been as noticed.I would say that if you are Mexico, you wouldn't call them all fish storms. At two or more storms crossed the Yucatan and hit Mexico.
I would say that if you are Mexico, you wouldn't call them all fish storms. At two or more storms crossed the Yucatan and hit Mexico.
Richard III? ???
Snow is just Nature's bleach--kills bugs, disease and hobos.Even if it doesn't kill the hobos it at least makes them migrate to Florida. =D
IIRC the ones that crossed the Yucatan were not Cat 3+. Far as I know all of those were fish storms. The ones that crossed the Yucatan were TS's or Cat 1-2.http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hurricanes/archives/2010/h2010_Karl.html