Winter 2010/2011 whats likely to happen?

ojrules said:
snow will cover the north of britain, people won't care.. snow lands in london, the entire South craps itself, as they are total pansies, declares a state of emergency and resorts to the trident system as a last resort..
Click to expand...

Fixed that for you. :D

Tefal said:
Or just keep a larger fleet of gritters and ploughs.
Click to expand...

Aberdeen City Council sold two or three of their ploughs/gritters 2 weeks before the snow hit hard. What a bunch of silly sausages!
 
Last edited:
Tefal said:
Or just keep a larger fleet of gritters and ploughs.
Click to expand...

The thing is, it would cost more to maintain that fleet over the course of a year than the amount which is lost to the economy through lost work days. It simply doesn't make sense to do that for the sake of the 2 or 3 days a year when it would be useful.

ojrules said:
snow will cover the north of britain, people won't care.. snow lands in london, the whole country craps itself, declares a state of emergency and resorts to the trident system as a last resort..
Click to expand...

Well, a trident detonation certainly would melt a fair chunk of snow.
 
Lots of snow hopefully - gives me a few days off :). I don't see why they say this happens ever hundred years or so. When I was a kid and looking at the pictures of the winters before I was born (early eighties) there was loads and loads of snow. It is only recently we have had mild winters. Perhaps it is going back to normal i.e. cold winters.
 
I'm looking forward to this winter, nothing should change here as most of the public transport still runs no matter how much snow there is.

I'm actually banking on lots of snow as me and a few mates have organised a camping trip in Jan and I want to have a go at making a quinzee (cross between an igloo and snow hole).
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Lots of snow hopefully - gives me a few days off :). I don't see why they say this happens ever hundred years or so. When I was a kid and looking at the pictures of the winters before I was born (early eighties) there was loads and loads of snow. It is only recently we have had mild winters. Perhaps it is going back to normal i.e. cold winters.
Click to expand...

We are now entering a new cooling period after the 30 year warming spell, if its correct we will be getting some really bad winters by 2020:(

Well so they say ;)
 
LabR@t said:
We are now entering a new cooling period after the 30 year warming spell, if its correct we will be getting some really bad winters by 2020:(

Well so they say ;)
Click to expand...

Well according to that we won't be having "really bad winters" we'll simply be returning to our "normal" winters.
 
ojrules said:
yes sorry, thanks thats better ;) ... although all the media seems to think that the whole of britain cares whats going down in London, and as a result what happens there matters far more than what happens anywhere else...
Click to expand...

Didn't you know that the luvvies there are more important they you, tccchlk silly boy





LOL
 
Meteorologist expects monster La Nina -
Drastic cooling

Southern Hemisphere sea ice
now approaching record high levels



25 Aug 10 - Although Northern Hemisphere LAND MASSES had their hottest May-July on record, says meteorologist Joe Bastardi, the globe as a whole did not.

The warmth ON LAND is a by-product of the years of warm Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and El Nino, says Bastardi. The land kept warming after the water began to cool. It's "sort of like high tide in back bay occurring after it had occurred on the beach (oceans) and the tide is about to go out."

"If one uses common sense, one would understand that land masses with warm water next to them for years would warm greatly," says Bastardi.

Southern Hemisphere sea ice now approaching record high levels

However, "the expansion of the Southern Hemisphere sea ice, now approaching record high levels, ought to tell you something about the oceans immediately around the sea ice," says Bastardi. This large mass of water is cooling and has cooled most dramatically in the area where it is warmest (the tropical pacific).

"We see drastic cooling over land and IN THE ATLANTIC TOO. In fact, it basically keeps cooling the tropical Pacific into next year, then hammers away at the two areas warmest now - the Atlantic and the continents.

Monster La Nina

In the next nine months Bastardi expects we will "see a monster of a La Nina, reminiscent of the 1950s." Over the coming decades, he expects "to see the Earth's temps retreat back to where they were in the late 1970s. (I expect to see them decline ever further.)

See entire article:

http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/bastardi-europe-blog.asp?partner=accuweather
Thanks to Tom McHart for this link
Click to expand...


better stock up on your woolie socks LOL
 
As usual tbh, we will see headlines like "London in Arctic blizzard chaos standstill horror" and there will be a picture of a child on a sledge and you will clearly be able to see the 2" grass poking through the snow.

We will run out of grit within 20 mins of the first snow flake hits the ground and all public transport will be cancelled regardless of whether it's snowed or not. Petrol will go up, food will go up, electric and gas will go up, everything will go up.
 
ojrules said:
yes sorry, thanks thats better ;) ... although all the media seems to think that the whole of britain cares whats going down in London, and as a result what happens there matters far more than what happens anywhere else...
Click to expand...

That's because about a quarter of the British population live in or around London... :p Makes sense you report the news that affects the most people.

Either way "BRING ON THE COLD WINTERS!":D
 
LOAM said:
As usual tbh, we will see headlines like "London in Arctic blizzard chaos standstill horror" and there will be a picture of a child on a sledge and you will clearly be able to see the 2" grass poking through the snow.

We will run out of grit within 20 mins of the first snow flake hits the ground and all public transport will be cancelled regardless of whether it's snowed or not. Petrol will go up, food will go up, electric and gas will go up, everything will go up.
Click to expand...

And then people will moan that nowhere else has the same problems, whilst not looking at Paris and seeing the same issue AND not realising that most other places don't have the same issue because they don't rely on gritting as much, people actually just go with the flow and have proper equipment...
 
im all for more snow, theres nothing worst then winter with just crap weather....when it snows it like the sun...it makes a lot of people happy and you kinda forget its -10c outside!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom