Posted by Bonovox
Might be a silly question but why are we having so much rain? The past 2 years i never ever seen so much water in the UK. Right now im in a bus shelter cold and my god is it raining hard it just never seems to stop. Is it global wetting or warning or freezing whats going on? Anyone?
Posted by faultymonkey
um ill have a guess and say its something to do with it being winter, generally when the rain doth fall....
But seriously this "global warming" ironically means England will get colder and hence more rain. Basically as the ice caps melt the Atlantic Gulf Stream will get flooded with more water and will eventually stop flowing, leading to an ice age (which ironically solves the problem by replenishing the ice caps!). But basically up until that time England will be getting cooler (less Gulf Stream flow) whilst other places get hotter as there is no stream to take heat away.
That and it could just be a wet winter
Posted by fluke9
I'm no weather expert.
But....
Looking out the window it's raining right now, if that helps
Ooops forgot to add in London.
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Posted by Bonovox
I just think its crazy the past 2 summers have both been complete wash outs. Not just winter. I read the other week some 'experts' saying we are in for heavy snow and very very cold winter this year. I miss the times i was young back in the 1980s(old) we used to get heaps of snow every year. But anyway thanks for the explanation makes sense.
Posted by fatreg
You needn't be an expert..
I said back in August you would notice a more tropical winter..
it's all part of a natural progression towards the next ice age, you'll note not only is it wet, that the wind is arctic, and very gusty, I believe it's all due to El Nino, but someone more qualified on the subject could confirm this, I believe the trade wind aren't helping matters either.
It does all boil down to global warming, and while as humans we aren't aiding the situation we are by no means 100% accountable for it, it's a natural process of the earth heating and cooling, and it's currently warming up, and I believe it'll continue warming until we as humans will be wiped off the face of the planet, but don't fret, this won't be for a good 10,000 or even 100,000 years...
/the above are all my own thoughts and form no basis or thesis, they are merely my mind wandering.
Posted by jcwhite_uk
I was watching something the other day that said that the weather we have been having over the past couple of years is not sue to global warming but just plain bad luck with how weather systems have been.
I cant keep up with this global warming. One expert says that the UK will get a lot colder and we will all freeze and another expert says that the UK will get hotter and we will all boil. The experts all agree on global warming but nobody seems to know how it works.
Posted by Trev1982
Global Warming just another excuse to fiddle us on tax's, the weather is just bad luck,
Posted by masseur
agreed! I have a commericial pilot licence and instrument rating and am supposed to be able to judge the safety of a flight based on the weather forecast, and even though the forecast timeframe can be fairly narrow for the flight I am about to conduct. the forecast is rarely as expected unless another pilot gives a sigmet/airmet (something of immediate significance to other pilots)
I really don't think that there is such a thing as a "weather expert" yet
Posted by carkitter
On 2008-11-10 01:21:27, masseur wrote:
I really don't think that there is such a thing as a "weather expert" yet
I spoke to a local weather expert from the NZ MetService recently as research for a Uni Assignment. Apparently weather modelling uses Chaos theory and requires the number crunching ability of supercomputers. A combination of several models are used to predict the weather which is constantly deviating from the forecast due to random and unpredictable events such as cars/planes/train moving thru the air...
Weather forecasting has become more accurate over the last 25 yrs though, due to more accurate data gathering, better models and faster supercomputers, and the biggest improvement in accuracy has come in the southern hemisphere since the internet has allowed us to upload data to Northern hemisphere models for analysis.
I don't know why you've got alot of rain, but our winter downunder was wetter than average too, with huge storms and widespread landslides in Urban areas not usually at risk.
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Posted by Bonovox
Well remember 2006 with the heatwave. Then past 2 years nothing but rain. I remember the cock up from Michael Fish back in 1987 with the storms we had that was mad. I notice sometimes Sky News says different forcasts to BBC. Though i dont think any forcast can be accurate. But as far as i can see lately we are heading for more rough weather rather than hot.
Posted by leeboy13
global warming? i wake up everyday and wonder what the weatehrs gonna be like - 3 months later and im yet to be disapointed
Posted by fatreg
you wait until it rains leeboy..
the whole place into pandemonium..
they don't know what to do!
Posted by leeboy13
heehe, i ahve heard that all the basements fluid..... lmao! to be honest im looking forward to rain here... id imagine it being fairly refreshing...
you still all set for feb amtey?
Posted by Bonovox
Lol my sister in law is from Wellington NZ!!!! For some reason she says she dont miss it!!!!
Posted by carkitter
Probably because she hasn't experienced Auckland on a sunny day.
There's nowhere better. They don't call it the City of Sails for nothing. We're just entering summer and its gonna be a cracker! Lots of fine weather and temperatures in the mid to high twenties (celcius). Should certainly make up for our dire winter.
