Methuselah

Never mind mate, I'm sure the ever-trusty CFS will deliver the goods!

I fail to see just how having spent one's career writing computer programs bestows someone an in-depth understanding of climate science...? But what is abundantly clear is that folks like being told what they want to hear: AGW threatens the future occurrence of super-severe European winters and, above all else, that particular holy grail must forever remain untarnished. Then again, deniers always want 'proof' -'proof' that in fifty years' time, X, Y or Z will happen...Science doesn't work that way. Though clairvoyance might?? PS: I once spent years learning calculus, but it never made me an expert in Brane Theory!

Blimey MIA - by the time you regard them as accurate, we'll all be over one-hundred-years-old!

22.9 here, 26 at RAF Mildenhall.

Or we could lower the bar a tad - seven successive months of 26C+?

Thanks for that, Fred...Here's hoping!

If the 'next' forecast spell of much colder, showery weather goes the same way as most of its predecessors, it won't materialise at all. Fingers crossed!

Seemingly, it's now 24C+ over most of East Anglia. And London of course!

Apparently, what I initially thought to be scrotes letting-off fireworks, yesterday evening, was in fact lightning. What a peculiar month this is turning out to be.

Currently it's blowing a hoolie. That said, it's still 19.5C...Very reminiscent of mid-Octobers 1978 and 1995...

Many congrats, mate. Have a stonker of a day!

True. One has dependence on or is useful for...something. How one is supposed to extrapolate from that to the conclusion that AGW theory is of little or no use is, quite frankly, beyond me.

Along the lines of Newtonian Mechanics, General Relativity, Quantum Theory and Darwinian Evolution? If by 'wrong' you mean subject to error then, aye, I will agree. But there's a fundamental difference between error and downright wrongness... Is teleconnection theory fundamentally wrong just because last-year's front-loaded winter didn't go according to plan? Ought we ditch it now and go back to necromancy?

Why aren't you guys also Helicobacter pylori deniers!

There were both snowfalls and/or freezing fog in November/December 1962, 1969, 1978 and 1985, all of which were followed by memorable events post-Xmas. My point being that all-or-nothing interpretations of what may appear, on the surface, to be viable analogues may in fact be no such thing...? My memory ain't what it used to be, feb. But wasn't last year expected to be a 'front-loaded winter'?

Wasn't that merely received wisdom, handed down from the time of Galen?

My point exactly!

If that were for mid-November, it'd look reminiscent of 1988. The rest, as they say, is history!

Even next week's 16/17C temps would be considered 'warm' in any normal October...

I'm sensing a possibility of snow over Scottish mountains, during the extended outlook; some wind, rain and unpleasant temperatures look likely too...I can hardly wait!

You have an 'agenda'? Why am I not the least bit surprised!

But, given our ability to read both graphics and their titles, what you say is by-the-by; no-one's saying that ice is melting where it isn't...IMO, you are making a mountain out of a molehill, in order to score a point...Though in reality, the way I see it, you are scoring an own goal?

Is the heading Arctic Basin Sea Ice Area really so vague that it allows room for 'cherry picking'?

I would rather hope that any real young students would ask questions and then digest the answers; they would I hope have a genuine thirst for knowledge? IMO, those who repeatedly ask the same questions, but never once take note of the answers they receive, are not real students: they have no desire to learn, merely to superficially pass themselves off as being clever... Creation 'Science' comes immediately to mind.

I guess that's what happens after spending years fielding rhetorical (or just plain daft?) 'questions' from deniers? The trouble with you lot is that you never listen to the answers you are given...