Posted on 08/08/2010 12:30:07 AM PDT by Cementjungle
The eruption hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space, just missing a direct sun-Earth line. Forecasters expect the cloud to deliver no more than a glancing blow to our planet's magnetic field when it billows by on August 9th or 10th--not be a major space weather event.
Future eruptions could turn out differently. Active region 1093 is rotating toward Earth. By the end of this weekend, we'll be in the line of fire if its magnetic fields become unstable again. Space Weather Phone subscribers will be the first to know.
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Our local weather up in the PNW is already claiming we will leave the El Nino (mild/warm) year and go into El Nina (cold/snowy) early year.
I prefer the EL Dude. Had a great year getting out to events.
Hope they are very wrong and El Nino sticks around for another year.
The sun controls ALL of our weather. Last Wednesday in Fredericksburg Va. the sun was going in and out from behind clouds and every time it did there was a 30 - 40 degree change in temperature within five minutes. Show me a man who believes anything other than the sun governs our climate and I’ll show you a man who never goes outdoors.
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The real problem you have in the PNW is the PDO. That is a longer term ocean temperature trend. You can see both the La Nina and the PDO in the image below.
As can be seen below we are in the classic cool phase of the PDO. Warm phase is on the left. Cool phase is on the right. We have the exact cool phase conditions. Actually a very strong cool phase condition. In fact the PDO could be significantly adding to the cool shallow water conditions of the La Nina. Gonna get cold this winter in the atmosphere of North America.
Below are the typical shallow sea temps for El Nino (top) and La Nina (bottom).
We have been in a cold PDO phase for most of the past 6-8 years. That was probably why we got so much snow last winter when the El Nino popped up. El Nino moisture combined with PDO cold. This winter we see what happens when La Nina combines with PDO cold. Should see bitter bitter cold. That is what they have down in South America right now.
Does this phenomena by chance have anything to do with drinking too much Corona beer? Morning after by chance?
Ewww! ....ain't gettin' close to that.
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