Soldato
Keeps trying to snow here in Brissle, mainly dandruff like and nothing major though.
Just because you've been working out the average wrong for 200 years doesn't make it anymore right! Personally I would be amazed if that is really how they work it out, because it is just plain wrong and completely unscientific.
Erm yeah, but large parts of the country have had very little snow (this winter and last) to go with their low amounts of rain. It's normally all to do with the fact cold weather comes from the north and east, whereas rain comes from the south and west.
Cool, you already posted that. Unfortunately for you I'm guessing that system has been used for the last 200 years so we can't just randomly change it because it doesn't fit your theory... There will most likely have been dozens of similar winters that are classed as warm over the last couple of hundred years due to one month being very warm, one month being very cold and the rest being average.
Change it for this year and you had better go back and change it for all the rest of the years since records began (probably dooable as they will have the daily records since then), in which case you'll probably find that all winter temperatures will be all over the place and we will end up in a similar situation to now... Stats are meaningless without analysis and that analysis has to be the same every time.
Interesting to note that I work with a lot of international students and we were pointing out to them that the weather in October and November was really unseasonal, much warmer and dryer than normal.
John Walsh, The Independent, 19 January 2010: Some climatologists hint that the Office’s problem is political; its computer model of future weather behaviour habitually feeds in government-backed assumptions about climate change that aren’t borne out by the facts. To the Met Office, the weather’s always warmer than it really is, because it’s expecting it to be, because it expects climate change to wreak its stealthy havoc. If it really has had its thumb on the scales for the last decade, I’m afraid it deserves to be shown the door.
warming – but in Germany and also in many other countries around the world people are currently fighting with the adversities of extreme cold. And indeed: “The year 2010 will be the coldest for ten years in Germany,” said Thomas Globig from the weather service Meteo Media talking to wetter.info . And it might even get worse: “It is quite possible that we are at the beginning of a Little Ice Age,” the meteorologist said. Even the Arctic ice could spread further to the south.
temperatures in Germany this year (8.1 degrees Celsius) were 0.2 degrees below the long term measured average of 8.3 degrees. “I fear we will end up still significantly lower by the end of the year”, said Globig. The long-term average is actually the average of all German stations from 1961 to 1990
Globig sees two main causes for the significant cooling: First, the cyclical changes in the big air currents over the Atlantic, and second, the variations in solar activity.
Feels like it's warming up a bit in Manchester... Fair bit of sun too.
This, haven't been able to see the sky for a good few days, no snow since Sunday night worth mentioning though.
Temperature seems to be staying just below freezing.
Its not like they don't have agenda is it, the Met Office: Weather and climate change its in their name for heavens sake.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/20/warm-bias-how-the-met-office-mislead-the-british-public/
i would be a bit more sceptical if i were you, they have alterer motives for the whole green tax agenda but that is a whole other thread
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/19/greenland-blows-hot-and-cold-while-europe-freezes/
Do i live in the only place in England that hasn't got snow.
******* freezing my nads off here but still no snow to play in.
Do i live in the only place in England that hasn't got snow.
******* freezing my nads off here but still no snow to play in.
EDIT: As for scepticism I'd like to think I'm quite open minded when it comes to science (especially earth science as that is my discipline) and I'm one of the few out of my peers that doesn't whole heartedly think that we are definately causing global warming (although to be totally honest it I do err on the side of believing we probably are).
Oh this is your line of work, that explains itenjoy the snow.
We were supposed to get about 15cm at some point today. Bit late now if it happens, I wanted it earlier in the day![]()