7andY

...but you claim this shows clouds to be a positive feedback. I don't see it. I just see it saying clouds will be thinner if it gets warmer... 7&Y

I must be reading something different. I see an investigation into what the clouds will do in response to GW - not the effect clouds have on GW. A subtle but important difference! Unless you can persuade me otherwise!! To quote from the article: "Having evaluated the model's simulation of present-day conditions, the researchers examined the response of simulated clouds in a warmer climate such as it might be in 100 years from now." Cheers, 7&Y

..but greater volume. So the weight is the same. Just by water freezing doesn't change its overall weight (volume x density) Cheers, 7&Y

Bit of a long shot, perhaps, but you could try your local Lending Libray. If it's in their system in the UK, you can order it through them. 7&Y

Churchdown - heavy snow, no rain! Struggling to settle, though... 7&Y

Just received this via works email... "Wed 17th Feb - from information received via Police Contingency Group The forecast this morning from our Professional Partners Met Office Advisor - Arwyn Harris is that we are expecting substantial & disruptive snowfall during Thursday 18th. It will snow today, but this will not be significant and will thaw overnight. Rain early tomorrow will change to snow by 10.00 am, and it will continue snowing until approx 7.00 pm in the evening. This will result in up to 10 cm of snow even in low-lying areas through Gloucestershire and Gloucester City itself. It will not be windy so there will be no significant drifting. The forecast is then that the temperature will become very cold for 2-3 days, therefore thaw is unlikely and the icy conditions will lead to significant disruption. The Police are putting arrangements in place similar to during the snow event we had in January." Interesting stuff!! 7&Y

...if you have your network go down, it is designed wrong!!! My school network has NEVER gone down in over ten years!!! except for power cuts, of course!!! 7&Y

Don't know what WX you've got, but Weather Display (www.weather-display.com) seems to talk to most. OK it's payware (about 30 quid) but works really well. Cheers, 7&Y

...perhaps it refers to an increase in water vapour in air that is below the saturation point. You can add water vapour to air until this point is reached - or are we saying that the atmosphere is permanently saturated :lol: 7&Y

...Cheer up, SleepyJean, Oh what can it mean?... It just means that replies don't come thick and fast on this thread. You have to wait - but it is an interesting thread nonetheless!! Cheers, Andy E.

Curious. Last winter, it snowed somewhere every month from November to March!!!

...We're back to the fact that there's no demonstrable evidence that that Sun's variations are dominating global climate... If solar influence is so small, can I take it that the Maunder minimum and the associated downturn in temperature is a coincidence, and nothing to do with the absence if sunspots?... I learn something new every day!

Isn't it just the tiny bit curious that pro-AGW people are quite happy that a small change in overall CO2 can cause big climate changes, but a small change in solar output doesn't?? Hmmmm.... 7&Y

AIUI, you could have ten Hundred Year events in a decade. You should not get another for a thousand years, just to set the averages straight, but even that's not guaranteed - it depends how many you had in the previous thousand years... :blush: Cheers, 7&Y

I think - I hope - one has to read it with one's irony hat on full square Cheers, 7&Y