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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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In Switzerland, we had the warmest November ever with average temperatures 5.5 degress Celsius over normal values.
----------------------------------------That is really enormous. In this period of the year, were I live, we have rain, grey sky and foggy weather. It is weeks now that we have sunny days every day. Sun and blue sky. In some regions it is months that it is not raining. We talk about drought. That is really uncommon here in Switzerland. Thank's God we have the largest water reservoir in Europe with the lake of Geneva. In the alpine region winter skiing stations have all postponed their opening due to lack of snow. Pictures show green prairies up to 3'000 meters of altitude. Ski stations that have snow cannons try to create artificial snow at least for the ski tracks, but the temperatures are too high and it is difficult to produce the snow. They are all praying  (churches are full  ) and looking at the sky to have the white gold rain down by christmas, otherwise it will be an economical disaster. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Hypernova at Dec 2, 2011 10:24:34 AM] |
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hi Hypernova
----------------------------------------In the UK we have also had a v warm Autumn, after a cold Summer, a warm Spring and a v cold Winter. Can you see the trend? There isn't one, it's perfectly normal.... weather Don't worry, any moment now the Yin and Yang of the weather will dump tonnes of snow on Switzerland - rest assured  I saw in another forum a nice truism - the weather always repays its debt. I like that Dave  |
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David Autumns
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Incidentally do you know why I think we have had a relatively warm Autumn in Europe?
----------------------------------------It's all those Hurricanes that the Americans haven't had. Normally throughout Sept, Oct, Nov the Atlantic Hurricanes head across the Atlantic from Africa pulling all of the heat out of the Sea surface. They then head inland Stateside and over continental North America dissipate that heat in Storms That hasn't happened this season. We have had just the normal amount of Hurricanes it's just that they haven't made landfall and have turned right mid Atlantic turned sub tropical and brought the heat throughout Autumn here across Europe instead. It's been a blustery old Autumn. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2011/autumn-warmth The UK has had 97% of its normal rainfall in Autumn i.e. as close to normal as is normal with weather. The claims of Drought by our Environment Minister, right in the middle of the Durban shindig, mean that she must think we are all stupid, that, or incredibly gullible. The Hurricane season is now over and that heat pipe is about to go cold. Welcome to Winter  |
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Who mentioned propaganda ?
----------------------------------------http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/design-archit...limate-related-games/2395 It wasn't me. No really it wasn't me. I've never mentioned it once.  Here's another absolute horror. Kids before you take a peak know that currently the Sea Ice extent at the North Pole is larger than either the USA or Canada. www.wherewillsantalive.ca Here's reality  |
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GeraldRube
Master Cruncher United States Joined: Nov 20, 2004 Post Count: 2153 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Shocked Scientists Ask: Is The Sun Is Dying? Cosmologists and astronomers determine the age of things like planets, stars and galaxies. And they use that data—the best they have—to determine the age of Earth's sun.
----------------------------------------They determined during the past century that the sun's nearly 5 billion years old. Everyone was happy because according to observations of other stars similar to the sun that meant the Earth's star would last at least another several billion years. That question settled, the scientists ate well, slept well, and collected handsome honorariums for speaking engagements. Everything was copasetic and the universe was in harmony. Until 2010. During 2010 three unprecendented events took place. http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1452/028/Shock..._Is_The_Sun_Is_Dying.html  |
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David Autumns
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/...latest.html#disqus_thread
----------------------------------------I wouldn't normally post a link to this junket but there's a beautiful line in there today that made me smile "Meanwhile negotiations continue at a glacial pace." no comment is needed  [Edit 1 times, last edit by David Autumns at Dec 3, 2011 6:49:47 PM] |
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David Autumns
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Hi Gerald
----------------------------------------It's just heading back into another Maunder minima level of activity mode It's amazing we have just gained the tools to observe the sun in any detail (http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/SDO_Self_Updating_6.htm) and surprise surprise we find out it's more dynamic than we thought We have only been in space 54 years, really honestly, what do we know about our local Star, about it's past and it's future? It will be around long after we have departed. Many many more Sun tanned generations to come  |
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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 the 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season final figure is in  |
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GeraldRube
Master Cruncher United States Joined: Nov 20, 2004 Post Count: 2153 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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the 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season final figure is in Its time to come out of the hurricane shelter---ahhhhhh--fresh air  Dave--hope all is well  |
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David Autumns
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Hi Gerald did you ever see a graph more Normal ?
----------------------------------------They each turned up right on cue Here's some lovely new propaganda published today by our Met Office http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-change/po...t/obs-projections-impacts I wonder why today I see they were commissioned by our erstwhile Anti-Nuclear Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change - The Right Honourable Chris Huhne MP I'm sweeping out the rubbish from the Global Thermometer at the moment and have sussed out, finally, why every now and again it coughs. I have a filter that selects what I thought could only be numerical values from 0 to the last maximum temp + 8C and from 0 to the last min temp -8C (restricting the window so that when someone types 99C instead of an intended 9C it doesn't make it through this net) Unfortunately as the values are originally text in the METAR once in a blue moon someone will type 3O as a temperature instead of 30 which my code tries to insert (the 3O) into a table that only accepts numerical values and *cough* Not any more it doesn't I have had to cull further weather stations that have packed up this year. We are affected by global events - all those in Libya stopped working and the Shuttle Landing Facility at Titusville in Florida has also made it's last weather observation  Coldfusion has a handy 'isNumeric' function - sorted More reliability to keep on collecting the truth  [edit - just checked and it has done the trick. Although maybe I ought not use the word trick while describing hobby climate science ][Edit 1 times, last edit by David Autumns at Dec 5, 2011 8:07:41 PM] |
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