tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post2944280669248903976..comments2024-03-25T05:30:23.847+11:00Comments on HotWhopper: A miscellaneous collation: fires, ice and cycles...Souhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-66081768525974899612014-02-11T02:30:05.082+11:002014-02-11T02:30:05.082+11:00Not the same in Holland.
Winds between SSW and SS...Not the same in Holland. <br />Winds between SSW and SSE 90%, check, record was 79%.<br />No subzero day average, check, record was, um, weeks ago?<br />Days of snow zilch, 20 or so the normal.<br />Nudging silver placing for warmest winters 'ever' (at least since 1706). <br />So it is an unbelievably monotonous, mild season here. Most Atlantic violence stalls just to the west drenching England, though some severe gales have moved on to our country (October, December) and we might get one on Thursday.<br /><br />There was a time average duration of any circulation pattern was 3-4 days. This has doubled, but actually the statistic has gone rubbish by what is happening now. As of the second week of October there's been one pattern until second week of January, when ocean pattern remained same but a blocking high appeared over Scandinavia for two weeks - I called that 'Pattern II' and we have returned to 'Pattern I' last week with no end in sight.<br /><br />There is nothing special about the pattern. But that it remains for month after month is absolutely pathological. <br />cRR Kampenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07571285063752477448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-19148562656660724732014-02-11T02:05:36.225+11:002014-02-11T02:05:36.225+11:00Same in SW Montana. A couple of cold weeks in Dec...Same in SW Montana. A couple of cold weeks in December and last week was pretty cold, but other than that temps have been several degrees above normal for most of the winter here. Rattus Norvegicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03449457204330125792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-78113188480820896812014-02-10T15:00:10.491+11:002014-02-10T15:00:10.491+11:00The (winter) sea ice around Antarctica has grown a...The (winter) sea ice around Antarctica has grown a bit, particularly this past year. There has been quite a lot written about this.<br /><br />Here is <a href="http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2013/06/sea-ice-in-arctic-and-antarctica.html" rel="nofollow">an article I wrote last year</a> about Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. Tamino <a href="http://tamino.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/antarctic-sea-ice-increase/" rel="nofollow">wrote an article about this</a> just a few days ago. And here's <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130918001910.htm" rel="nofollow">an article in Sciencedaily.com</a> about a paper written last year. And a <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v505/n7484/full/505491a.html" rel="nofollow">more recent paper in Nature</a>.<br /><br />On the other hand, a lot of the ice on the continent is melting. Particularly worrisome is West Antarctica and the Peninsula. Here is <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140102142010.htm" rel="nofollow">an article about the Pine Island glacier</a> for example, which discusses some of the likely forces operating there. Working out just what will happen is not a straightforward exercise as that article shows.Souhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-40824673931653974932014-02-10T14:48:13.357+11:002014-02-10T14:48:13.357+11:00"Some of the people commenting at WUWT seem t..."Some of the people commenting at WUWT seem to think that the world is heading for an ice age, because it's the most snow the USA has seen in 20 years or something. "<br /><br />Yea, well in the Four Corners area of the USA, except for a couple cold weeks in January - it been spring weather, but the calendar says it's barely February. And we would love a little snow around here! citizenschallengehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04559990934735912814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-58655606127589923532014-02-10T14:10:21.964+11:002014-02-10T14:10:21.964+11:00Sou, is Antarctica ice growing in recent years? Sou, is Antarctica ice growing in recent years? Judenoreply@blogger.com