"GLOBAL WARMING MY BACKSIDE" WRITER STATES
Written by: Bob Metcalfe
The headline was enough for me to check it out. The Australian website meattradedailynews.co.uk was taking a poke at global warming after some towns have seen the coldest temperatures in over 100 years! Here's the article, it's not very long:
WIDESPREAD cloud and persistent rainfall has kept temperatures down right across Queensland.
Longreach, in the Central West, received persistent rain from Tuesday evening, dropping the temperatures by about four degrees. The temperature then barely moved yesterday, reaching a maximum of 11 degrees; 12 degrees below the long-term average and the coldest July day in 44 years of records.Isisford, further south, was even colder, getting to just 10 degrees. This was the town's chilliest day since before records began in 1913, almost a century ago. Some locations in the Maranoa and Darling Downs didn't even make it to 10 degrees. This includes Charleville, Injune, St George and Inglewood. Residents of Brisbane also experienced the cardigan-worthy weather. The city topped at 17 degrees, three below average. From this point, rain and cloud will contract to eastern Queensland as a trough heads off into the Tasman Sea. Southeast Queensland will still see morning rain, and then showers will kick in during afternoon as winds become gusty and onshore.
Remember that these temperatures are in celsius, which is amazing to me that the lowest temperature EVER for one of those spots is 50 degrees fahrenheit. It must be a warm location! An unseasonably cold pattern has taken over (remember its winter down there right now) and persistent rain isn't letting any warming sunshine in.
Remember that these temperatures are in celsius, which is amazing to me that the lowest temperature EVER for one of those spots is 50 degrees fahrenheit. It must be a warm location! An unseasonably cold pattern has taken over (remember its winter down there right now) and persistent rain isn't letting any warming sunshine in.
Lots of polar blocking during the winter months in the southern himisphere often translates to a following winter of anomalously strong polar blocking in the northern hemisphere. This would be consistent with current thinking that we we see a couple years, or more, of anomalously negative AO across the n'ern hemisphere - partially due to the solar minimum, and the shift into the cooler phase.
ReplyDeleteWith the likely development of la nina this autumn, and another possible year of strong blocking at the poles, it is possible that a very cold winter will setup across the northerntier of the United States this autumn into the winter. The difference from last year will be a MUCH less active southern branch of the jet stream, which will mean many powerful clippers reinforcing cold air and LES across our region, as well as storms intensifying as they work their way up the ohio valley toward our region.
Fun times are ahead in the coming months!