Summer 2016 is so awful because...................

[MP-R]

Does anyone actually know why there has been such a prevalence for the green snot to repeatedly extend down over us? Once or twice one can imagine but the persistence and perfect timing for this time of year is really quite wearing.

[hillbilly]

4 hours ago, Azazel said:

I would definitely love to re-locate, even to the near continent where they get decent storms and a summer.

 

That green blob on the charts always seems to extend down from the pole and frame the UK in a perfect teardrop.

You should try living here in the pennines,you have weather that Is Mediterranean compared to here,its lovely down there ,my brother lived in Overton a few years in the 80s !

[Matthew.]

5 hours ago, Nouska said:

The current low solar cycle may be playing a part too.

http://www.clim-past.net/12/799/2016/cp-12-799-2016.pdf

The top down mechanism is more referred to in winter circulation where the status of the stratosphere is involved in producing colder periods but who knows what influences have been created by all the 'exceptional' events of recent times. The latest is that the QBO is doing something strange or at least not seen in the limited record we have.

When we talk QBO is this relating to east winds that would be normally west. If not what are these 'strange things'? Thanks

[The PIT]

Average temps okay a little bit wet but certainly no write off.

[Nouska]

49 minutes ago, Matthew Wilson said:

When we talk QBO is this relating to east winds that would be normally west. If not what are these 'strange things'? Thanks

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