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I have read in several places that volcanos have a negative impact on climate temperatures so was wondering if people think the eruption in Iceland could impact on this melt season or is the effect more transient.

Well lets get things going again Joe B has called for winter weather of a lifetime coming up. empty the supermarket shelves immediately before the food runs out !!!!!!

I don't think it matters which side of the fence you sit. This only proves that if there is no political advantage to be gained things, right or wrong, wont happen. There is no bigger group of people not interested in the science than polititians

I think this has to be the best week of the winter so far. Some really good gains. To me it now looks like 12.5M could be possible for Jan 1

Maybe a bit off topic but at the moment on the Barrow Ice Observatory web site the radar image show the coastal Ice breaking away and splitting up. Never seen that before and thought others might be interested.

Just read Met office to release all the data. This should now draw a line under things for a while I would have thought as you cannot do more than this.

Excellent forcast. Loads of working on show behind all the thought. Personally wouldn't want it too cold but again excellent forcast

I think some people might be shocked if their behaviour for the last 15 years was listed out in a plain text file and was published for all to read and critique. I mean, who can stand up and say that in the last 15 years they have done nothing of which they might be ashamed or embarrassed?

Must admit I didn't read to much of the article it was just the picture I was after

http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2009/11/07/108371_tasmania-news.html

excellent piece of work. well laid out, well explained, couldn't really ask for any more

I agree completely. I gave up with the BBC a long time ago but really like the look of this

Apologies if this has already been posted by anybody http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8299079.stm

Also worth noting I think is that even just on the avererage of these few years it is below by ave 300,605 with only 2007 lower

2004. Thunder snow event in January. I was driving in this and had to just give up and hope nobody hit my car. 2009. Being in the stramer in January that produced the heaviest snowfall I have ever seen.

9) Swine flu, ditto especially once the weather turns cooler, viruses prefer cool to heat. The chief medical officer, Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, said that in the worst case scenario 30% of the UK population could be infected by the H1N1 virus, with 65,000 killed. The best case scenario is that 5% of the population contract the virus, with 3,100 deaths. current mortality level still in double figures

The first six are hard to dispute but I think that these could well be classed as scaremongering 7) Mad cow disease had the potential to infect and kill many, thankfully for us all that disaster has been averted due to removal of carrier parts of the carcass from the food chain. 14 May 2001 It may be five or ten years before the rest of the population of those at risk develop the disease. Professor John Collinge Professor John Collinge is one of the government's top advisors on vCJD and director of the Medical Research Council Prion Unit in London. Official estimates predict the final death toll from the disease could be as high as 136,000. . The last study published tests made on tonsils removed and other organs showed no signs of the prions responsible. http://www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAweb&HPAwebStandard/HPAweb_C/1242914502235 Eight) Bird flu, still time for that one yet. The government chief medical officer, Liam Donaldson, in 2005 said that there would be definately be a pandemic maybe not in 2005 but soon and it would kill 50,000. If a new strain did hit the UK before a vaccine was created, Sir Liam said an extra 50,000 would probably die - and a death toll of 750,000 was "not impossible". http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/4413096.stm 9) Swine flu, ditto especially once the weather turns cooler, viruses prefer cool to heat. The chief medical officer, Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, said that in the worst case scenario 30% of the UK population could be infected by the H1N1 virus, with 65,000 killed. The best case scenario is that 5% of the population contract the virus, with 3,100 deaths. current mortality level still in double figures

buy some people a couple of drinks and its amazing what they will come up with.

I was having a drink last night and listening to the loudmouth, every pub has one along with the man who makes a pint last three hours and will tell you the last 30 years history of the pub. The loudmouth was saying that global warming has been dreamt up by the US to limit power for China/India so they can slow down the financial/economic growth of these countries which will make the US a has been country. Hows that for a conspiracy theory.

Thanks for that. The whirlpools are a massive surprise. I think some of the videos of glacier break ups are just as spectacular as some of the extreme weather videos some people have filmed hence asking for links.

just for the record the powers that be are doing all they can to keep us all alarmed. Couldn't agree more there has been a continuous stream of warnings od diseases that would wipe us all out. BSE, the biggest con job ever attempted SARS was going to wipe everybody out Bird Flue was on its way from the far east Swine flu has pandemic status yet less people have died than during a normal winter. For me the shame is I think warming is happening but feel there are scares being created to make people panic

I haven't been bitten by a spider. I did have one jump at me in Tobago which freaked me out a little bit

I think this also ties in with a documentary made a couple of years ago I think entitled Earthquake storm. This raised the possability of earthqaukes further along fault lines.

27mm for my area. Unbelievably dry

Not without checking everything out not just weather possabilities