Lets guess the winter weather

Briefly I think something along the lines of the following;

September - warm start with equal amounts of dry and wet spells, cooling as the month ends to averages of low/mid-teens in celcius, on the whole a nice autumn.

October - early in the month pretty unsettled, possibly with an autumn storm and similar temperatures to late Sep, first frost of the winter by the end of the month.

November - starting cold and sunny but followed by rain/sleet/snow and unsettled weather.

December - a mixed month of unsettled weather with snow and settled cold spells leaving us guessing about a white christmas

January & February - similar and on the whole very cold and frosty with snow at times.

March - starting cold but a mild spell of 'spring' like weather by the 2nd or 3rd week

 

Worse case scenario?

We'll have another bitterly cold winter due to falling solar output, the positioning of the jet stream and yet another diversion of the North Atlantic Drift, due to the almost total meltdown of the Greenland ice sheet putting loads of fresh water into the North Atlantic.

Ironically, the effect of this temporary warming will have the opposite effect, the change in salinity could stop the warm water from sinking thereby turning off the entire "conveyor belt" effect.

Our part of Europe would no longer have the moderating influence of the Gulf Stream & would have to endure the "normal" northern european winter, -20c, sea ice freezing in the harbours etc.

Remember 1962/63? Months of frozen snow, at least that thawed in the summer. The real problems would start if the summers stayed cool enough so that the ice in the mountains didn't melt before the snows of the following winter come. It would only take a few years of that before glaciers start to roll down the valleys again.

 

I can't predict what the weather's going to do in the rest of Britain, but the island will carry on as usual, wet and windy all year round, with a few minor frosts during the winter.

However, I have it on good authority from a local amateur forecaster, that the whole of Britain will be hit by a snowstorm in February.

 

So do you think our weather patterns are still altering Zigs or are they returning to what we knew as normal a few decades back?

 

Oh not Eric the Hermit & his special seaweed again? Thought I told you not to go near his Cairn without an escort

 

Sorry Just get wound up when they lecture me about global warming & co2 taxes, when they don't have the faintest idea about what they are talking about, co2 levels from geological times to the present day, planetary temperature swings.....

Ok, i'll stop now & go and have a bottle.

 

Sept-rain
October-rain
Nov-rain
Dec- rain, wind.
Jan-rain, frosts, snow, rain.......
Feb- see jan
March- rain, snow, rain, frosts, rain, winds, and rain.........
April sun! rain, wind, sun , rain wind........

 

I think that just about sums it up al n and I bet you've got it right too!

 

:patpat:

 

Who needs multi billion pound climatological equipment to predict t'weather? Piece o pee. Not rocket science is it!

 

Local farmers are normally good for predictions, perhaps they should take over as weather men/women.

 

Or ask a fisherman.......