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I aint no Sheikh-but lets talk weather

SpursLodge said:
Well Essex is F*ing cold so I imagine London is the same.

I'm sick of this snow as well now, but anyone that says this is proof of global warming is talking nonsense. Here's some events for you...

On 25 September 1895 snow was reported to have fallen at London and Wallington in Surrey making it the earliest fall of snow on the capital.
On 2 June 1975 snow showers forced the abandonment of several cricket matches across the country.
The snowiest winter of the twentieth century in the United Kingdom was 1947. Between 22 January and 17 March snow fell every day somewhere in the country.

Were all these weird events caused by global warming or is it just that weather is constantly changing? I suspect in a few years we'll start a new spell of warm winters and it wont snow for 5-10 years or something and then everyone will claim that's global warming too.
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I personally think its to do with the sun and the fact it is getting quieter and quite likely heading into a dormant state like it did in previous times of the dalton and maunder minimum.
The Sun is currently in a very quiet period (despite being close to Solar max), it is expected to remain very quiet for some years to come, possible reaching the depths of activity experienced during the Dalton Minimum - a remote possibility it could be even lower and match a time known as the Maunder Minimum. During prolonged, deep minimum periods which last a number of years, the quiet Sun has been shown to have an impact upon winter weather in the Northern Hemisphere. What happens is the change in Solar activity changes the ultra violet light levels, this in turn has an impact upon the upper atmosphere which leads to changes in the jet stream. These changes create blocked weather patterns, leading to greater incidences of our weather coming from the East during the winter - hence colder and snowier.

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The top graph shows how the solar cycles are getting less active. A cooler climate is far more damaging than a warmer one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Minimum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum
 
It rained this evening in Australia. fudging joke. We've been having lovely sunny days for so long....
 
Temperatures don't look too bad for the middle of next week but its still possible to get cold temps and frosts under clear skies at this time of year at night. Computer models seem to show it cooling down again at the end of next week which I just hope is way off the mark.
 
Seriously mate, there's no such thing as bad weather, only a state of unpreparedness, didn't you know it was going to freeze last night? It was common knowledge. Working in the aviation industry I thought you'd have got decent weather forecasts as part of your job. I do. :)

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Gordinho said:
Seriously mate, there's no such thing as bad weather, only a state of unpreparedness, didn't you know it was going to freeze last night? It was common knowledge. Working in the aviation industry I thought you'd have got decent weather forecasts as part of your job. I do. :)

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I was a day off prior. I don't take my work home with me.

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It's fudging beautiful in Liverpool, has been for the last few days. All the attractive girls have finally come out of hibernation (or wherever it is they are for the entire winter).

Annoyingly this is when I'm having to spend brick loads of time inside in front of a computer trying to finish up all my uni work. Grim.
 
Its been glorious here in Somerset the last few days. Spent yesterday on a beach and I've just got back from a 3 hour walk through woods and a nature reserve. Knowing that the weather was going to break down later tonight I'd thought I'd seize the opportunity to get out with the camera (nature photography hobby) and the paperwork can wait.
I managed to get lost and my feet are sore but now have a great tan and 2 pictures of a butterfly (grizzled skipper) I've never seen before. Hopefully we don't have to wait long before the weather picks up again. I shall have a look at the charts later.
 
Notmegov said:
Could do with some rain though, first cut of silage is way back on last year.
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Same here but the grass only started growing about 2 weeks ago. The cows were out about a month later than usual. After the amount of rain we had here last year, I'm not going to worry about rain too much although it looks like we will get some this week but not sure how much, I must check out charts as I haven't done so for a week or so.
 
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