Colder winters may be on the way!

[Col_M]

I found this a pretty interesting read, he puts across a strong argument of this winter being even colder than than last and this trend continuing.

http://globalcoolingnewiceageuk.blogspot.com/

Of course everything you read on the internet needs to be taken with a pinch of salt but this guy seems to have been pretty close for the last few years and has proved the met office wrong.

It will be interesting to see what happens but I for one look forward to a little more snow I'm planning to have a go at making a quinzee this year and maybe even try some XC skiing.

 

[Retired Member southey]

My hopes are for a colder trend too, Made up a set of Tele skis in Jan from some discounted bits, just need to grab some sticks now.

 

[locum76]

It'll be interesting to see if he's correct. I hope not because I can't be bothered with the burst pipes at work.

 

[Gill]

I hope we get as much snow again , certainly better than all the rain we usually get.saying that we are getting all the rain now in the summer,hmmmmm

 

[Radix lecti]

Yes ! Bring it on,i could Ski to work.

 

[Retired Member southey]

We definatly had a lot more snow at sea level this year, about a foot and a half after it had sat for a day or so, and Dava moor was upto around three to five in the drifts, but didn't see the extreme low temps of 2008/09, six days at -10 daytime around -15>18 at night but far less snow.

 

[_mark_]

Thanks for the link, very interesting. He seems to be banging his head against a brick wall in trying to bring it to public attention!

 

[Wayland]

Some interesting ideas there and it wouldn't be the first time the Met office got caught out. Time will tell as always though.

It wouldn't actually surprise me to see colder conditions this year and in fact I've already been making a few preparations for it following the conditions we had last year.

I'm seriously reviewing and upgrading both my personal and vehicle winter kit now, before the rush and subsequent unavailability when the slush actually hits the fan.

 

[demographic]

I bet the oil companies are falling over themselves to fund that blog...

 

[BarryG]

Hope so. I thoroughly enjoyed the last one!
Not to good for the old folks though eh.

 

[ged]

I wrote a reasoned response to the article with explanations and references. It took quite a while. When I tried to post it, the forum software threw it away and told me that I wasn't logged on. You can imagine how I was that I'd let the forum do that to me AGAIN!!!!!

So rather than go through all that yet again I'll sum up my take on the article in a single word.

Unconvincing.

By all means be prepared for the worst you expect to be possible. But we've only just had an ice age (about ten thousand years ago), and based on the evidence I don't expect another one for at least another 100,000 years.

Here's a plausible explanation of the snowfalls last winter:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11152077

Not that I'd put any faith in a BBC science reporter...