Flemish Weather Freak

I don't say there is any real evidence that the NAD is weakening , but you can't say that there haven't been any indications lately that it could already be happening right now (look in the threads before where I put some of these indications and links). It certainly is gonna happen in the near future (1 - 100 years), if you take into account the estimations of warming and melting. The first weakening that will appear (is appearing) is unlikely to be directly measured, because this is a very difficult thing to do. This first few percents of weakening will go rather slowly (a few years), but when this percentage has reached a certain level it goes very fast. There is evidence from Greenland ice samples that the NAD can completely vanish in less then a decade. This is the best site to learn more about the gulfstream: http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/index.htm

Hi Noggin and John, This year may be the 11th warmest for the world so far, but it certainly hasn't been for europe. Is this just another sign of the weakening NAD? Something that has also my attention are the SSTA's in the NA. On this site, http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.gif , you can clearly see that the NA is divided in 2 parts: an eastern side which is a little bit colder then normal and a western side being far hotter then normal. I don't know whether this is different from other years, but if it is, I would link it to the NAD weakening very rapidly. If the water can't sink properly above Siberia the cold backstream of the gulfstream weakens. Could this be the reason of the water being far warmer in the western Atlantic then normal? Here you can see the complex streams in the arctic area: http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/viewIm...=18930&aid=9206

This system is developing so fast. The pressure is falling almost as fast as it did with Wilma. :o And am I right seeing the next system developping to the East of Larry? :o http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/globalir.html

The snow just went over in graupel here, but with a nice covering of 3 cm, I cant be disapointed. Still this amount is negligible in comparison with the amounts that fell in NY.

As there is no snow falling in the UK, I will post my snow report here as I'm living only 200 km from the UK. This morning sleety snow began falling here at 11 AM, with a temp of 3 °C. One hour later temps started to fall rapidly and currently is only 0.2 °C. Sleety snow has now changed in proper snow and is laying everywhere. At the moment it's still falling and looking at the radar it wont stop quickly. I only hope that the upper air temps stay cold enough, so that it snows the whole evening and night. I will update later on how much snow there has been accumulated. Greetz FWF

Snowing again here very heavily, 0.5 C, and starting to settle everewhere.

Already the third snow/hail fall this morning. Starting to settle.