It said, on the news, that this is the most snow we've had since 1991.
It may well be, but it is not significantly worse. We have often had snow falls of similar duration and severity in the past and I do not feel that this is significantly worse enough to say we are getting "all this snow all of a sudden".
And if we got worse in 1991, why did we get that in that year? It's obvious that some years are worse than others. It's normal. To answer the OP's specific question, nothing is "going on". And a few days of snow does not liken us to Norway in the slightest.
Because somewhere in the world a butterfly flapped its wings
local weather systems are chaotic by nature and relatively extreme weather events will continue to occur despite global average temperature change. Don't expect it to stop snowing occasionally in any of our lifetimes just because the average global temperature is on the rise.
No I think it's more like the movie The Day After Tomorrow, and the helicopters in Scotland will not be able to run! And the world is in for a new Ice Age!
The current weather is due to a mass of cold, dry continental air moving towards us. As it crosses the warm-ish North Sea, it picks up mositure which condenses into snow.
This occurs from time to time, if this were July/August and that air-mass was in exactly the same position, it would be between 30/35c and we'd be sweltering.
Very soon we will be back to the more usual run of south-westerly air streams bringing fronts in off the Atlantic which would be milder, but wetter (for the rest of the country).
What people don't seem to realise is that climate change is NORMAL, despite we have anything to do with it or not. The climate has warmed an cooled lots of times since the Earth was formed. No amount of recycling and banning lightbulbs will make a difference in the end as the climate WILL warm up or cool down, it's natural and there's not a thing we can do about it
Until this week I used to say we hardly ever get snow these days, global warming, and yet here we are and as I write this it's snowing again outside my window. We are the new Norway! What's going on?
Because somewhere in the world a butterfly flapped its wings
local weather systems are chaotic by nature and relatively extreme weather events will continue to occur despite global average temperature change...
Why oh why hasn't the Daily Mail launched a campaign against this Nu Labourist Butterfly menace!:mad:
I bet Jonathon Ross keeps climate-changing butterflies too!:eek:
True to form, some of the the global warming zealots have leapt on this winter as evidence of climate change but of course they are clutching at straws because one bad winter is statistically meaningless. Every 20 years or so we seem to get a very bad winter - the British weather has always been very changeable with extremes every now and then. That's why it's our favourite topic of conversation!
Until this week I used to say we hardly ever get snow these days, global warming, and yet here we are and as I write this it's snowing again outside my window. We are the new Norway! What's going on?
Maybe global warming isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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It may well be, but it is not significantly worse. We have often had snow falls of similar duration and severity in the past and I do not feel that this is significantly worse enough to say we are getting "all this snow all of a sudden".
And if we got worse in 1991, why did we get that in that year? It's obvious that some years are worse than others. It's normal. To answer the OP's specific question, nothing is "going on". And a few days of snow does not liken us to Norway in the slightest.
local weather systems are chaotic by nature and relatively extreme weather events will continue to occur despite global average temperature change. Don't expect it to stop snowing occasionally in any of our lifetimes just because the average global temperature is on the rise.
Cheers for that
This occurs from time to time, if this were July/August and that air-mass was in exactly the same position, it would be between 30/35c and we'd be sweltering.
Very soon we will be back to the more usual run of south-westerly air streams bringing fronts in off the Atlantic which would be milder, but wetter (for the rest of the country).
So what, it's a bit colder and snowier than usual - it happens. It's just such a shock cause we are used to pishy wet and mild winters.
Yes we accept that. But I was just interested in the science behind it, tis all
I think it starts off as rain but turns into snow on the way down. I have no idea why it has 6 sides though.:)
God moves in mysterious ways.
Why oh why hasn't the Daily Mail launched a campaign against this Nu Labourist Butterfly menace!:mad:
I bet Jonathon Ross keeps climate-changing butterflies too!:eek:
Or 1981 or 1947 for that matter.
Maybe global warming isn't all it's cracked up to be.
We are a northern European country and it's February.