Methuselah
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Dark Horse Whatever 'potential moving forward' is supposed to mean.
PS: I've been on here for more than twenty years -- they've been right too, a couple of times!
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SollyOlly No need to panic, I've got my old git's bus pass!
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SollyOlly Well, I've got my pension, so Iain Duncan Smith will not be best pleased!
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78/79 Andy, I'm on Venlafaxine, Lisinopril and statins. . . the joys of getting old, eh?
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CryoraptorA303 Me neither. And I don't feel the cold either.
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It's thunderplumping!
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B87 In my lifetime? Never, I hope!
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damianslaw I'll HOPE for the former but expect the latter.
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damianslaw Cold as in blizzards, or cold as in merely boring and uncomfortable?
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lassie23 Sod it! I've always thought it presaged snow in July! Smarch is the month?
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cheshire snow What. . . in a Day 10 forecast?! Heavens, no!
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And, seeing as so many folks are obsessed with calendar months. . .
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Metwatch Thankfully, the Met's opinion is not nearly as dire.
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Please don't laugh, but we have a Beast from the East incoming! You read it first, here. . .
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I'll only make one prediction for 2024: we'll not see a heatwave that surpasses 1976's 16 consecutive days with 90F maxima.
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RebsAbbo It can't possibly be more dangerous than the mindless waffle by Stalin's most useless idiot, Trofim Lysenko:
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The last two years have seen a very dramatic reduction in Antarctic sea ice:
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How will a BAU scenario (as advertised very loudly by Trump & Co) cope with rising sea levels? I mean, the bulk of human civilisation is in low-lying areas. We can't all relocate to Denver, Colorado, can we?
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Summer Sun But in science, according to Piers Corbyn and his acolytes, it's proof that the world is cooling!
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raz.org.rain raz.org.rain And I think it's the recent acceleration in warming that's played havoc with the modern use of analogues, dating back to the 19th century. . . Whatever any single analogue (or teleconnection) might have led to, in 1876, it surely has much less significance now than it did then.
IMO, it's not the analogues/teleconnections that have gone astray -- it's the weather!
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But, anyhow, this graph is pretty definitive. It's no wonder that when Deniers refer to this or that 'warm period' they invariably neglect to post any supporting data:
That said, the winters of 1971-'76 were indeed rather snowless.
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But Trump's a Denier, and so are Truss and Farage.
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Addicks Fan 1981 IMO, you're giving far too much credence to the effects of the QBO?
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Addicks Fan 1981 And the summers of 1988 and 1995 couldn't have been more different.
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Moans, ramps and banter
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al78 Indeed, and we don't know what many of those forcings are. So, how anyone pretends to be able to forecast our weather, for six months' time, is beyond me. @Tamara's posts are about diagnostics and not A+B=C predictions. . .