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Yesterday a spot so small it could hardly be seen was counted, now SDO is malfunctioning and alternative images are being used we are at zero again!

Those spots are tiny! Be interesting to see if any more rotate into view soon..... Personally I'm not expecting this winter to see any changes but the one after that......

Interesting times ahead I hope

4 days spotless now

More here http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/the-weather-in-the-uae-is-all-sorts-of-crazy-right-now-724455.html

Interesting stuff......

Rain off to bed to dream on winters past...

The one thing I miss about living in Telford

Maybe a study that uses data that is not 10 years old! We can all appreciate it takes time etc but this seems to be a study about how models perform on historical data, If the model can't get the past tense correct up to say a year ago I can't see it having much hope of getting anything in the future remotely correct either. It also makes one wonder what has happened in those 10 years that they can't(?! or won't?!) model? In your example, 2012 is still 3 years ago, however the point here is 2005 is 10 years ago. When this is 1850-2015 & the model gets it correct I'll be interested.

Makes no sense to me, we know what the climate has done up until yesterday, that's historical. Also, why were the years 2005-2012 not part of the experiment? This forum is titled "new research" , what's new about this?

Why does the first graphic have a date range of 1880-2014 yet all the subsequent graphics the range is 1880-2005? It seems daft that a link that is dated 2015 omits 10 years worth of data.

Looks over here now. Boy it came out of no where. Really hot and sticky here still.

Wow. One hell of a storm here. Its gone dark green. Constant lightening. Wind is unreal.

Most of us on here enjoy a storm but this is not good.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-33907476 Stay safe everyone.

Like the crack at 9.45ish, gets the birds flying!!

Nice. I bet the 1.44 one woke you up!!

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jul/17/rare-snow-in-australia-as-antarctic-chill-sweeps-eastern-states

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11745967/Australias-sunshine-state-covered-in-snow-during-record-cold-snap.html

I'm tempted to head up to the Long Mynd but looks like it won't kick off until the early hours??

At a guess nor are "silly assumptions" as you put about F1 teams either? It's pointless wasting time in these threads so I'll let you lot chase your tails for the rest of your lives.

Odd assumption. Turning the gas up on a hob with a pan of water on it makes it boil quicker. Spitting in the pan does nothing.

Orbital forcings favouring cooling? Some seem to believe the current orbit is in a cooling phase while other sources claim not for another 30,000 years.

John A. Church and Neil J. White seem to be the sources? That doesn't say where, when & how these measurements were taken? I'm struggling to believe instruments were accurate to less than 1mm back in 1870 so curious as to how these figures were obtained.

On the graph how were the measurements made from 1925-1992? (& for that matter from 1870 to 1924?)

Presumably to make a statement like that they must have all of the various monitoring stations plotted into a graph somewhere to make a global average plot?