Nick L
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Can't stand the things. I have to shut my window of an evening or otherwise my room would be full of them. Only had one so far this year, usually have plagues of them around Sept-Oct normally before getting killed off by the first frost.
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I may be wrong but doesn't sulphur cause acid rain? Please correct me if this is incorrect.
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If that's aimed at me, I wasn't.
It was a general statement, wasn't aimed at anyone in particular.
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You can't say our climate isn't warming, winters have been exceptionally warm lately, unfortunately summers haven't followed suit in the past 2 years.
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Precisely. It isn't going to switch from record low ice to record high ice in one year. I don't think it will reach last year's minimum so therefore it will be an improvement IMO. The past 20 years of warming didn't suddenly happen in one year.
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The annual CET for 2007 was 10.48c
If the rest of 2008 were to have the same values as last year then the final CET would be 10.17c
If the rest of the year had 71-00 averages, the final CET would be 10.15c.
Either way, 2008 has the very real potential to be the coolest year since 2001 and the 2nd coolest since 1996.
The BBC will find a way to manipulate that last sentence into "the warmest year on record", just watch!
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Just had a very long, very distant and very loud rumble of thunder. The actual storm has just shaved across the south of me though unfortunately.
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I AM NO LONGER A MEMBER OF THE NO STORMS CLUB XD
Yippeeee!
Very heavy rain, a couple of flashes of lightning, several rumbles of thunder and the pigeons are still sat out in the rain
I am happy now!
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Distant thunder
Could I be about to get my first storm of the summer? I shall keep you posted!
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I reckon they should make Jurassic Park
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Why don't the scientists do something useful and find cures for diseases?
I just cannot see the benefits from wasting money on this.
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I remember Feb 91 so well even though I was only 5. We were flying back into Newcastle on either the Friday or Saturday night, my parents probably know which. We circled Newcastle for at least an hour before diverting to Manchester because they couldn't clear the snow from the runway at Newcastle. I remember looking out the window with big lights on the plane lighting up the snow and cloud all around us.
The snow wasn't too bad at Manchester but got progressively worse the further East we came. Instead of going back to Newcastle we got off the coach at the Carville exit of the A1. It was after midnight at this point and I remember walking through very deep snow and bitter cold with my mum guiding me and pulling suitcases!
If you think that sounds detailed for a 5 year old my parents did fill me in on a couple of details. One thing they said was when we got home our central heating had broken and the house was freezing after being empty for a week! The next day I remember snow drifts up to the kitchen window at the back of the house and making an amazing snowman. I think we probably have pictures somewhere.
I didn't exist
. Those must be truly amazing memories. We surely have to have something like that again eventually. If we had that now health and safety drivel would go into overdrive and tell everybody not to move an inch to prevent certain death. We can't cope with a few inches let alone a few feet. My dad has told me about 1991 but it is very hard for me to imagine after having my whole life in the "no snow" period.And I am going for wet and mild.
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I was in the Algarve and it was cooler there!
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Being a relative novice, what does a strong el nino mean for the UK?
And is this the same David Dilley who goes by the name of GlobalWeatherOscillations on here?
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To get a few people in the mood and in trying to not break license agreements, a few BBC weather forecasts and news footage from the cold winter a long time ago;
Ive seen the Feb 1991 with Francis Wilson (that useless one off Sky News). The east of England are about to get 1 foot of snow and he seems like he is bored! If that happened today the mild rampers on the BBC would be out in seconds claiming the apocalypse is approaching.
I wish I could see snow events like those.
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I don't buy the Gulf Stream theory at all. If the Gulf Stream is weakening, then why are we getting consistently above average temperatures? The past decade has seen very little snowfall here.
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Cheers for that Ossie.
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As a complete novice when does the ice stop melting and start rebuilding again? End of September? Just curious.
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This is very, very odd. I was in Cambrils in Spain last week, and in the sky was a bright orange light just as you described. But it lasted about a minute and then went behind a cloud, but did not re-emerge. Strange.
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I note sea ice has thwarted a team reaching the Kinnvika scientific base on Nordaustlandet Island, Svalbard.
They planned to stay there for 20 dyas, but the extent of ice soon put paid to that. Already enroute home to Norway.
Where you hear/read this? Not the BBC surely...
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but isn't that a hell of a lot less than our normal conditions Delta? isn't that like saying "the operation was a great success but unfortunately the patient died"?
But you can't expect ice go from way below average to above average in 12 months. This is a good start to a recovery and now we can only hope it continues.
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Why do these 'warming' graphs invariably stop at 2000?
That particular one goes to at least 2005 to my eyes.
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I think this further proof that the BBC do not give any hint that global warming may not exist. I posted in here (I think) how I found dozens of stories supporting the GW theory and absolutely none going against it. A bit of middle ground would be appreciated BBC.
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The rare year that the major Great Lakes freeze over, the snowfall is very reduced on the downwind side which we call the snow belt. That is why Buffalo gets socked so heavily with snow when Lake Erie doesn't freeze. I was wondering if there was a similar effect in the Arctic. Maybe Roger knows.
Yeah I see where you are coming from. It probably would increase snowfall in the Arctic, but at the same time it could increase melting.
. Those must be truly amazing memories. We surely have to have something like that again eventually. If we had that now health and safety drivel would go into overdrive and tell everybody not to move an inch to prevent certain death. We can't cope with a few inches let alone a few feet. My dad has told me about 1991 but it is very hard for me to imagine after having my whole life in the "no snow" period.
August CET
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I would extend that to 24 months. We have had 2 coolish, wet summers and 2 mild winters in succession. With regard to the leaves, I have some already turning brown, even nature thinks it is Autumn.