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BleakMidwinter

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  1. Midlands Ice Age I found this very interesting - spraying seawater onto the surface of sea-ice to increase its thickness and resilience- only at initial stages of research testing on thin layers at present, and not considered a 'cure' but could at least help in some areas where loss of sea ice affects the area more widely... Pumped up: will a Dutch startup’s plan to restore Arctic sea-ice work? | Polar regions | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM As the Arctic warms, devastating the climate and ecosystems, an old idea used to create skating rinks could be deployed to restore melting ice caps, despite scepticism from some experts
  2. I liked the *Ingham Singularity* but I can't remember who suggested it...
  3. And conveniently, here is a blow by blow description of that weather system
  4. I'm clueless when it comes to interpreting charts, but one thing I have become aware of, trying frantically to keep up reading, is just how many of the posters here whose knowledge I really respect have posted in the last day or so to say that they have never seen charts like this, never seen this kind of run for January, can't remember this or that in recent decades, etc. It feels to me like, even if we end up with a short chilly phase and back to the Atlantic washing-machine's 'Rinse&Repeat' cycle, this has already been something dramatic and noteworthy. Isn't all forecasting entirely reliant on previous modeling compared against actual weather outcomes? So the very fact that the models are converging onto such unusual and startling charts... isn't that already noteworthy, whether they do or don't turn out to be accurate predictions? (Forgive me if I've got technical terms like 'charts' and 'converging' wrong... I really am reliant on those of you who explain your comments, and I tend generally to view the charts as pretty Rorschacht blobs... )
  5. Thankyou!!!!!!! I have been following these discussions for over a dozen years now and have never had so much difficulty finding reliable information about the interpretation of data.
  6. Oh jings, thank you SO MUCH for this! This kind of clear, reasoned, structured explanation is the reason I keep reading this discussion even though around 75% of the posts are almost meaningless to me even after 12 years on the forum... Thankyou. It's appreciated!
  7. I made the mistake of laughing aloud and showing my husband the chainsaw-wielding dolphin… oh dear…
  8. While we're at it with putting together the 'dream team' of people who post clear and well-written explanations so that those of us who are far from expert can understand, can I put in a word for @Man With Beard whose posts are often a relief from a whirling ocean of TLAs and obscure in-jokes! And yes, @johnholmes is *always* really brilliant to read, even when you're only a very lowly amateur!
  9. We commented this morning about the smell of trees as we swam at the local quarry… different times of year you suddenly feel very aware of your surroundings, the trees or birds or changing light…
  10. Beautiful sunshine this morning as I swam at a local quarry - water temp 16ºC and air temp only 6ºC... warmed up later in the morning, but heavy rain off and on since midday. Very autumnal!
  11. Ah there's 'Scotland' and then there's 'Edinburgh'.... A micro-climate all of its own, sitting in a bowl with hills to south and west, the North Sea to the east and then the Forth to the north... in 35 years living there, it was incredible how often "the whole of the UK" would be bathed in baking sun or drowned in deluges or buried in snow, according to the news, and there we'd be, not having that weather...! Remember that famous satellite photo from a few years back, the 2009-10 winter iirc, with the entire country white? Yep, that was the year everyone remembers as the really snowy one but Edinburgh had not a bloomin' flake... Then Nov 2010 it started snowing and basically snowed every day for six weeks and the online companies refused to deliver orders (thanks, Tesco and Amazon!) we needed the Army in February to help clear the 8 inches of ice on the pavements and many side-roads...! There was quite a bit of snow in the 1980s, though - plenty of sledging after school most winters as I recall it. But not the gigantic drifts and the weeks on end of white streets and no cars that happened in 1979 and in 2010...
  12. Sitting watching tv in a room with window to the south, me sitting facing west, and for the last 15 minutes there's been a steady supply of gigantic strobe-flashes to the SW of Telford... extraordinarily odd, though - presumably because of the fog, the lightning is only lighting up one area of the sky, quite low down, like some weird stage-lighting effect. I did wonder if it was some kind of lighting or white-only fireworks or suchlike, but some of the flashes have included a very distinctive lightning-streak running near-horizontally (which is also odd!).... Radar-map shows heavy lightning down by the South Shropshire hills, so 30-40 miles away - but what a light-show I'm getting! No sound of thunder yet...
  13. Ummm.... not everywhere. It was my first winter in Scotland, last year of primary school, and our weather project included taking the temperature outdoor at noon every schoolday for a fortnight, and it never went above freezing. The drifts were often above my knee-high socks, and not just in a few odd corners, I still remember the unfamiliar sensation of snow against the bare skin at the back of my knees! And I saw people skiing to the office, in pinstripe suits, trousers tucked into woolly socks, wearing woolly hats and a briefcase strapped to their backs... and suddenly the city was full of men wearing kilts because they are so much warmer than trousers... It was my first Scottish winter and I was really pleased to discover that Edinburgh was exactly like books, all snowy... ...then I had to wait another three decades for another one like that, but the 78/79 one was apparently even snowier!
  14. Apparently it rained lightly about 3:30am last night in Telford - our black car (which hasn't moved in three days...) now looks like we spent hours off-roading!
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