Who claimed the 2009/2010 El Niño was strong. Let me show strong on the SOI index 1993-2000... hint 1997/1998:



and another piece of the record 2000-2007:



anyone able to see what came after 1998? La Nina's maybe? Several? Robust types?

and the last years since the last month, February imminently added:



Anyone seeing a strong El Niño for 2009/2010 when comparing to the top chart and why it felt a bit cooler in the few years before...2007-2008?

Next project is to plot SOI, TEMPS, TSI, SUNSPOTS and CO2 and maybe Aurosols if there is a record, in a All-In-One view. Then, the Ain't True-Ists can slug it out what the dominant factor is in weather and climate change... that odd alignment of temp rise and GHG's, whilst that sun just trundles along.

I can see it and don't wear the J.Y. special issue 2010. They should be made illegal, globally.

PS: There's good news. It's thought the signatures that are the onset to ENSO changes are identified... it's in an other Ocean... The Indian.

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre61k1r7-us-climate-elnino/

Lead-in to the snow story:



It's True I Say!

Anyone want to volunteer to pay for and download this

http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2010/2010EO010001.shtml

Tedesco, M., and A. J. Monaghan (2010), Climate and Melting Variability in Antarctica, Eos Trans. AGU, 91(1), doi:10.1029/2010EO010001.


Abstract

Scientists have observed large increases in melting on the Greenland Ice Sheet in recent decades. But what is happening in Antarctica? Temperature increases during the past 50–100 years have been recorded for the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctica. Melting over Antarctica has been monitored since 1979 using spaceborne passive microwave observations. The sign of the melting trends over Antarctica is variable at regional scales, depending on the period analyzed and on the indices used, with the continent-averaged trend being negligible.




Probably best we save our cash given that the sign of the melting trends over Antarctica is variable at regional scales, depending on the period analyzed and on the indices used, with the continent-averaged trend being negligible.


I must look up the definition of negligible over at http://www.thefreedictionary.com



Dave


edited for dodgy typing fingers - sometimes what you think in your head doesn't make down onto the page. Sometimes your extremities have their own ideas about what you wanted to say

yep exactly retsof

Finally you hit the nail on the head

Antarctica has weather. That's what we have been pounding on.

That would be small amounts of gas that has a lot of powerful effects. We have also been pounding on those nails.