Ladyofthestorm

Maybe I should bottle our water and sell it to all of you in the SE!...lol We had 100mm of rainfall in 6 months, then we had 270mm in July!

The weather was great May and June and then came along the summer hols for the children and then it all went downhill... been cool and at best damp.... horrible horrible horrible. BTW I live on the Isle of Skye.

In my humble opionion, the suns awakening wont take affect this year, and from the way the atlantic is working.. its like being in the doldrums here!.... it will sleep for another winter. However Im waiting on the hurricane season and the ex hurricanes that are thrown this way before I make any sort of judgement.

Hi there, Im still trying to come to some sort of conclusion about this winter. I think it depends alot on how active the hurricane season is (how active the atlantic is). I think Ive heard whispers of a potentially large La Nina event in the pacific and that always upsets the applecart. Im quite interested on the impact of solar activity on climate, so I suspect that even given the the suns rather spectacular awakening this year, there is a lag time on its effect, eg we could still be heading for yet another cold winter..... last year was cold, calm and relatively dry (Im not counting Nov as that is autumn). This winter could still be cold... it hasnt really warmed up at all here and the sea surface temps are about 1C below what they should be at this time of the year..... and if the hurricane season kicks off like its predicted to do we could see some fireworks as the atlantic air meets the colder continental air. Wasnt it last year that Polant suffered early season blizzards? Something to watch out for. I do know this much, it aint going to be boring!