OldGreggsTundraBoy

another mild day, looking at the forecast a whole load more mild days for the SE, even up to 23C humidex which is higher than thought possible for late October last year about this time we had snow!!

Who cares if solar activity's low, then its low. They try to make SSN counts as unbiased as possible. Too right

I love your sense of unflinching optimism. Im afraid im going to have to predict it will be mild, Grey and drizzle over the 'festive' period with the odd sleet shower contaminated with pollution because i'm a miserable lazy old pessimistic teenage b*stard who should be doing homework for college. Mid- End of October looks like it going to be wet and mild, possibly up to 20*C but more likely 16*C and feeling cold in that wind and rain, particularly as many people like myself continue to stand around the place in t-shirts. Who knows we'll probably break the 1998 warmth record, i mean apart from January every months been well above so far check netwether CET- as i said 2 week outlooks mild too. I can say NOVEMBER does look like being pretty D*mn good- might see an early winter. "and from what ive been seeing in russia and siberia things are set to get colder sooner than later." unless you live in Moscow, winter fun's been banned there along with snow and most things good. [the governments literally going to stop snowfall over Moscow]

Global warming must be fighted and solved. Any extra time given by any tempory cooling over the next few years or decades [which is possible] should be our chance to prevent a climate catastrope when warming takes hold i think by 2050 we will have a climate catastrophe if we don't solve it. This time i fear will be used badly and many people will see it as an opportunity to burn fossil fuels like hell, but they are wrong. As the met office clearly points out, the underlying trend is clearly UP. They're right. Never trust oil companies or big brand companies when it comes to talking about GW okay, nor mcdonalds with your children or health while were on the matter

I think the suns dead peeps, sorry! >.> its too bad we haven't broken the 92 day record yet, i think if we do, we should consider it maunder minimum time probs.

15 days blank, actually along those 15 days though there have been a number of proto spots and solar flux has been a bit up, compared to the 66 we got down to a month ago. of course... theres a hell of a lot of peeps that do think connection though, im not sure, might be, but very slow.

some more activity as yesterdays proto spot failed to even get a number, solar flux up to 70- things (the sun) arent exactly coming to life quickly. heres to hoping things get going on the sun heh?

all is quiet and peaceful, solar flux 69 and drifting lower, most likely back to 67. i think one gets the idea, there's just going to be one or two little sunspots from time to time. solar cycle 24 very boring. yet for some reason im very interested and feel the need to check twice day for updates. I think its a bit like people that watch big brother live all night- essentially just some person sleeping, but some people still do find it gripping/ relaxing. gripping and relaxing is a good combo. most of its essentially countng days then a spot come along nu have to start all over day 5.

Thanks for clearing that up before i decided the UK was going to be ripped of the map i wonder what would would happen if an area of air depressurized to 0 mb -mega++++ hurricane?? Lol i've got geography field trip that day!! (but only to like central surrey)

Yee, it looks well... Average. Average isn't bad though these days :]

still could be cold, for starters the weekly forecast shows ground frost even for this week- our first bit of cold weather, in an otherwise warm period. overall 2009 is going more for record breaking warm rather than cold which some peeps were hoping 4. My dad found last winter to be average but he was born in Febuary 1946, the 2nd coldest year of the century.

yeh i also swayed towards the cooling camp for a short while... but atcually wtf dont base weather the globes cooling on 1 little-not- likely to be correct forecast for the UK.

I agree, watch to see if the solar flux drops back to 67 or stays at 70+ for indication. 32 is high for the last couple of years, but at recent solar maxs a day with 200+ would be a high day.. 100-200 would be more or less average day.

wow solar flux up to 76 and SSN up to 31!! the highest i have ever seen! [in my short little life so far]! this is like the sc24 equivalent of an X10 class flare - the kind of activity you only see very rarely. I think todays the peak, 1026 is fading, and 1027 is stable, and no spots of the farside so todays the top i'd say! A couple of months ago [beginning of July i think], but they weren't as big.

we've seen false dawns JUST like this one before, so lets not get too excited just yet. If solar activity is on the increase (at flipping last) perhaps it will still be long and slow most likely 1.5 x slower than a modern average cycle. 75 solar flux is good, it actually breaks a record just about, but its still low.

A monster?! it really doesn't look that big to me! id say it's the kind of sunspot that will get a number for a few days though.. before fizzling out.

large sunspot is approaching, in fact it's been there for about a week now, pretty impressive in itself [but just so happens not to be on the earth-side] Background flare activity and solar flux are increasing. Weather or not you want activity [i'm not sure now] this one certainly deserves to be counted!! I suspect it is getting old now though, and could vanish before it rotates into view in 2 days.

I'd be surprised if there was thunderstorm this late in the year, even thought temperature and humidity are at their highest today, there not extremely high, could be wrong but uno it's not exactly 30C with steam rising from the earth peeeps! [maybe a bit in my garden because of all the watering- it's been so dry] Good luck1!!

Not going to be blank for long, well in fact it's only been v.quiet our side of the sun the other side been getting increasingly more active, solar flux has been static at the slightly higher 69.

I'd put this down to rainfall, the sheer lack of rain in the SE over the last 2 months has caused earth to turn to dust and trees to dry up. In the NW it's been the opposite which also causes problem for trees. Can't be cold temperature because EVERY month since Jan has been well above average/ mild. I agree its been SO dry and warm, with people seeming to be frantically burning fuel in various ways. It's hard to believe in anything but warming this year.

spaceweather seems to suggest another sunspot is on it's way. Solar flux has been a little higher at 69 also. Who knows, but it's still not exploding into activity, that is for sure.

yea, can we also predict chances of white Halloween and white bonfire night-although bonfires in the snow REALLY wouldn't be a great idea might sound impossible but i remember some snow in the south, in October last year. Hahaha! yea true, if i was to 'predict' [guess] i'd go just under 50-50 to make it sound like i had a clue what i was talking about.

White Christmas?... only joking i'm not really going to do that miltant black guy thing I find it amazing that there can be any prediction this early "Probabilities Northern areas of the are considered to have a 45% chance of a white Christmas. Southern areas of the are considered to have a 45% chance of a white Christmas." Sounds good to me!!! Lol there's no real point of Gfs this early, it's about as good as predicting by flipping a coin

well wasn't so sure about global cooling tilll noww.. but the current net weather forecast for day 9/10 at Lowestoft [where i'm visiting] is MINUS 273*C [absoloute Zero] !! :o:cold::o:cold:

Day 1. [of ???] no sunspot streak. http://nwstatic.co.uk/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blush.gif