Low solar activity may cause extremely cold winters
#1
Posted 19 March 2010 - 05:04 PM
In this report I analyzed the statistical relation between the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation index (QBO is a measure of the direction and strength of the stratospheric wind in the Tropics), the solar activity, and the Arctic Oscillation index and obtained a statistically significant regression equation.
http://www.factsanda...ope-and-russia/
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#2
Posted 15 April 2010 - 09:05 AM
BRACE yourself for more winters like the last one, northern Europe. Freezing conditions could become more likely: winter temperatures may even plummet to depths last seen at the end of the 17th century, a time known as the Little Ice Age. That's the message from a new study that identifies a compelling link between solar activity and winter temperatures in northern Europe.
http://www.newscient....html?full=true
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#3
Posted 29 November 2012 - 09:04 AM
Minus 20 deg C? Britain faces coldest winter for 100 years as Big Freeze follows floods with wind so strong it blows water upwardsQuiet sun puts Europe on ice
BRACE yourself for more winters like the last one, northern Europe. Freezing conditions could become more likely: winter temperatures may even plummet to depths last seen at the end of the 17th century, a time known as the Little Ice Age. That's the message from a new study that identifies a compelling link between solar activity and winter temperatures in northern Europe.
http://www.newscient....html?full=true
Temperatures to plummet to minus 3°C this week and could fall as low as 20°C in December
Britain will shiver tonight as temperatures plummet in the first taste of what promises to be one of our coldest winters for a century
http://www.dailymail...lows-flood.html
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UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
#4
Posted 29 November 2012 - 09:32 AM
2008-2010 saw record cold however last summer some areas saw record heat last summer...Maybe this could explain it, Maybe it is the Sun:
From NASA http://science.nasa...._thewatchedpot/
April 14, 2011:
If you've ever stood in front of a hot stove, watching a pot of water and waiting impatiently for it to boil, you know what it feels like to be a solar physicist.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded this X1.5-class solar flare on March 9, 2011. [movie]
Back in 2008, the solar cycle plunged into the deepest minimum in nearly a century. Sunspots all but vanished, solar flares subsided, and the sun was eerily quiet.
"Ever since, we've been waiting for solar activity to pick up," says Richard Fisher, head of the Heliophysics Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington DC. "It's been three long years."
Quiet spells on the sun are nothing new. They come along every 11 years or so—it's a natural part of the solar cycle. This particular solar minimum, however, was lasting longer than usual, prompting some researchers to wonder if it would ever end.
News flash: The pot is starting to boil. "Finally," says Fisher, "we are beginning to see some action."
As 2011 unfolds, sunspots have returned and they are crackling with activity. On February 15th and again on March 9th, Earth orbiting satellites detected a pair of "X-class" solar flares--the most powerful kind of x-ray flare. The last such eruption occurred back in December 2006.
Of course some have predicted that this peak will end early, as soon as next May.
Edited by Rogerdodger, 29 November 2012 - 09:37 AM.
BIGGEST SCIENCE SCANDAL EVER...Official records systematically 'adjusted'.
#5
Posted 02 December 2012 - 05:05 AM
#6
Posted 19 December 2012 - 07:25 PM
Down to -50C: Russians freeze to death as strongest-in-decades winter hitsHistorically, low solar activity has been connected to cold winters in Europe. A definitive physical mechanism for this fact has not yet been presented.
Russia is enduring its harshest winter in over 70 years, with temperatures plunging as low as -50 degrees Celsius. Dozens of people have already died, and almost 150 have been hospitalized.
The country has not witnessed such a long cold spell since 1938, meteorologists said, with temperatures 10 to 15 degrees lower than the seasonal norm all over Russia.
http://rt.com/news/r...emperature-379/
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UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
#7
Posted 19 December 2012 - 07:38 PM
(Updated 2012/12/10)
"We are currently well over three years into Cycle 24. The current predicted and observed size makes this the smallest sunspot cycle since Cycle 14 which had a maximum of 64.2 in February of 1906.
The smoothed aa index reached its minimum (a record low) of 8.4 in September of 2009. Using Ohl's method now indicates a maximum sunspot number of 70 ± 18 for cycle 24."
http://solarscience....v/predict.shtml
Locally, 2009 was the 5th coldest winter in our history books of 107 years.
But for the Statists, it's hard to tax the Sun... so they tax tanning booths!
Maybe windows are next:
"The window tax was a property tax based on the number of windows in a house. It was a significant social, cultural, and architectural force in England, France and Scotland during the 18th and 19th centuries. To avoid the tax some houses from the period can be seen to have bricked-up window-spaces (ready to be glazed at a later date), as a result of the tax. It was introduced in 1696 and was repealed in 1851, 156 years after first being introduced. Spain and France both had window taxes as well for similar reasons."
http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Window_tax
Edited by Rogerdodger, 19 December 2012 - 07:52 PM.
BIGGEST SCIENCE SCANDAL EVER...Official records systematically 'adjusted'.
#8
Posted 02 January 2013 - 07:42 AM
During the first decade of the 21st century most of Alaska experienced a cooling shift, modifying the long-term
warming trend, which has been about twice the global change up to this time.
Temperature deviation from the long-term mean, average of the 20 first order stations has returned to the same level as 1976.
Will Alaska’s frigid spell last long? The researchers don't know. The report notes, however, that Alaska endured three decades of relative cold starting in the mid-1940s. Many Alaskans pray the current cold stretch abates sooner.
http://www.alaskadis...-headed-ice-age
http://www.benthamsc...6/111TOASCJ.pdf
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#9
Posted 07 January 2013 - 08:33 AM
Global Cooling Hits ChinaThe First Decade of the New Century: Alaska cooled 2.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
During the first decade of the 21st century most of Alaska experienced a cooling shift, modifying the long-term
warming trend, which has been about twice the global change up to this time.
China is suffering its coldest winter in 28 years, the news agency on Saturday quoted China's Meteorological Administration as saying.
Temperatures recorded over the country since November have averaged minus 3.8 degrees Celsius, while northeast China saw average temperatures of minus 15.3 degrees Celsius, its coldest winter for 43 years.
Plunging temperatures trapped around 1000 ships in sea ice off eastern China's Shandong province this week, Xinhua reported, while snowfall delayed more than 140 flights in Beijing last month, the China Daily said.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.a...l#ixzz2HIQywJgf
Edited by stocks, 07 January 2013 - 08:35 AM.
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#10
Posted 08 January 2013 - 10:01 AM
Global Cooling Heads for BritainGlobal Cooling Hits ChinaThe First Decade of the New Century: Alaska cooled 2.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
During the first decade of the 21st century most of Alaska experienced a cooling shift, modifying the long-term
warming trend, which has been about twice the global change up to this time.
China is suffering its coldest winter in 28 years, the news agency on Saturday quoted China's Meteorological Administration as saying.
WINTER will roar in with a vengeance this week with a savage Arctic freeze likely to last until the middle of next month.
Temperatures will plummet by more than 20C as Britain is plunged into weeks of shivering misery, forecasters warned.
The UK faces the coldest and iciest spell of winter so far as another “Beast from the East” roars in from Russia and the Arctic, they said.
It could be the middle of February before any break from harsh frosts, ice and temperatures as low as -20C.
http://www.express.c...-last-for-weeks
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