Posted on 10/04/2010 9:26:02 PM PDT by DeFault User
Coldest winter in 1,000 years on its way
04 October, 2010, 22:20
After the record heat wave this summer, Russia's weather seems to have acquired a taste for the extreme.
Forecasters say this winter could be the coldest Europe has seen in the last 1,000 years.
The change is reportedly connected with the speed of the Gulf Stream, which has shrunk in half in just the last couple of years. Polish scientists say that it means the stream will not be able to compensate for the cold from the Arctic winds. According to them, when the stream is completely stopped, a new Ice Age will begin in Europe.
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So far, the results have been lower temperatures: for example, in Central Russia, they are a couple of degrees below the norm.
“Although the forecast for the next month is only 70 percent accurate, I find the cold winter scenario quite likely,” Vadim Zavodchenkov, a leading specialist at the Fobos weather center, told RT. “We will be able to judge with more certainty come November. As for last summer's heat, the statistical models that meteorologists use to draw up long-term forecasts aren't able to predict an anomaly like that.”
In order to meet the harsh winter head on, Moscow authorities are drawing up measures to help Muscovites survive the extreme cold.
Most of all, the government is concerned with homeless people who risk freezing to death if the forecast of the meteorologists come true. Social services and police are being ordered to take the situation under control even if they have to force the homeless to take help.
Moscow authorities have also started checking air conditioning systems in all socially important buildings. All the conditioners are being carefully cleaned from the remains of summer smog.
Wow, can we put this in our pipe and smoke it, and place our bets at the bank, are we sure these people know their stuff?
Algore needs to hibernate in a hut in Siberia.
Perhaps he can get a Russian bear to give him a massage and relase all his chakras.
Who knows?
Now it’s “climate disruption”. And we’re still to blame.
I think I better cut more firewood...
Note to self: Don’t vacation in Russia this winter.
Same here in NC. It’s going down to 43 tonight and I’m thinking seriously of turning on the heat.
It was 107 yesterday here in AZ. I’m jealous.
For most of the past 4-5 months, it has been seasonably mild and I've had the windows open on most nights. However, those days now appear to be over as much cooler weather is moving in.
Now I don't have all those fancy college degrees that the meteorologists seem to have, but I don't need to be a weatherman to know that something is definitely going on out there. I've been closing my windows at night and throwing on an extra blanket. I think the hazy, lazy days that we've had for the past few months are now at an end.
Ditto here in SE Texas.
Here the forecasters often rely on wooly worms. I’m not sure if those are caterpillars or what, but I did see a squirrel today with an unusually bushy tail and coat. Maybe he knows something we don’t. ;O)
Um. Don’t vacation in Russia any winter.
The NWS predicts higher temps. I say they are full of it. Mt. Leconte, Tennessee got 3” of snow today. It is colder. A fun link to the couple on the Mountain lives here.
http://www.highonleconte.com/daily-posts.html
I think I better cut more firewood...
You can’t do that. You’ll make smoke./s
That’s beautiful.
“Um. Don’t vacation in Russia any winter.”
No need. I’ll just go to Bismarck, ND. Similar weather.
Reminds me of the summer heat story about Russians drowning because they were swimming while drunk (on vodka?).
With the “warming” effect of ethyl alcohol, I wonder if (when) we’ll see stories about Russians freezing to death while drunk.
Meanwhile....here in the Seattle area, we are forecast to have a mild winter. I sure hope they’re right! Winter 2008 was rough. ‘09 was easy peasy.
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