We desperately need more global warming.
Translation: Buy more sun tan lotion.
It could herald the start of a four-month Polar assault with snow and sub-zero temperatures threatening to grip the nation.
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AKA Winter.
Could it be that Sunspots or the lack of them have an effect on climate....?....who knew.../crickets
More global warming.
It must be hard for them to admit that it is the sun which affects the Earth’s climate, not straws and farts.
To explain this as simply as possible as maybe its a bit alien to my friends in America....
UK newspapers have a very very bad habit of reporting complete nonsense about the weather here - you really have to see it to believe it.
And the very very worst culprit of that is and has always been the Daily Express (actually a paper I like because it is very right wing).
I’m not saying they’re wrong - but normally they grossly over exaggerate in terms of weather predictions.
“Freak changes in the composition of space around the sun are about to drive a chain of meteorological events”
This reminds me of something I saw in the DirecTV program guide’s description for an episode of Space’s Deepest Secrets or something similar where they look into why a part Jupiter is “hotter than it should be”.
From 18 years ago:
“According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.”
Kudos to these guys for putting it on the line. If they’re right, they’ll look like geniuses.
We won’t have long to wait to see if they’re heroes or goats.
This sounds like the plot from “The day after Tomorrow”.
Gee you mean that the sun affects climate more than molecular level changes of CO2 in the atmosphere?
Well if the Thames freezes over we will know the next little ice age is upon us. The last frost fair was 1814.
Large pinch of salt required. Piers Corbyn is a maverick who has always refused to disclose his forecasting methods or to have them peer-reviewed. He also happens to be Jeremy Corbyn’s brother.
“Winter is coming ... “
As a Montanan living in Phoenix I AM UNAFRAID! LOL
Thundersnow!
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If there are changes in or around the sun, why would the results be focused on the UK? Or would there be effects elsewhere?
Here in the mid-South, we are having an interesting fall. It’s more like the fall without a fall, so far. To quote a local TV met, “It’s been hot-hot-hot-hot-COLD!” Or in other words, after weeks of unusually extended and occasionally record warmth, we dropped nearly 40 deg. on average, in a day. The drop itself is only moderately unusual for the area, but what’s different is that there’s little to no recovery, and it seems to be staying that way. If the weekly forecast pans out, I think we are into “Cold-Cold” territory, and the 14 day outlook is indicating another cold week after that.
My guess is that this is more likely due to a pattern oscillation than a direct / immediate effect of a solar variation such as described by the article. The US West looks rather warm, and looks to be staying that way. But for us, the lack of quicker shifts up and down with (often) an “Indian Summer” inserted somewhere in between the faster cycles, is a bit unusual.