Winter predictions

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sam_acw

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Sep 2, 2005
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Im going to say unseasonably warm till just after Christmas, then the gulf stream will cut out plunging northern Europe into an icy hell . Followed by a massive meteorite impact in April triggering off the super volcano in yellow stone around mid may. All this combined corssing a world wide ice age and the end of the world as we know it .
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
I think I'd settle for just a bit colder - an ice age is a bit much
 

Ogri the trog

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Apr 29, 2005
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Being a country dweller, the townies automatically expect you to be a natural at this sort of thing. Hence my predictions often run along the lines of "Well tonight its going to get dark and by next summer it'll be warming up again!"
Up to now we've had it very mild, we were certainly into our third maybe fourth snowfall by this time last year. I recon the law of averages and "regression to the mean" we can expect the winter to hit harder the longer this mild spell goes on. It does look as though this will be the first Non White Christmas since we moved back to Wales, five years ago.
On a personal note, general outlook - snow and heavy frosts causing traffic mayhem in late January/early Febuary, locally (Mid Wales) a late onset for spring and another very dry summer.

Ogri the trog
 

JonnyP

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Oct 17, 2005
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I am intrigued......Some of you mention that the weather is going to do this, that and the other, because the berries, leaves, keys etc are still on the trees, or were on for longer than usual, whatever......Surely this only indicates what the weather has been doing, not what it is going to do....How can trees predict the future........????
 

torjusg

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Jon Pickett said:
I am intrigued......Some of you mention that the weather is going to do this, that and the other, because the berries, leaves, keys etc are still on the trees, or were on for longer than usual, whatever......Surely this only indicates what the weather has been doing, not what it is going to do....How can trees predict the future........????

Who knows, but seems like they can. :confused:
 

torjusg

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So far my prediction is pretty much right on the mark. Little snow before Christmas. I believe that the Northern part of the Gulf Stream is now shutting down for a few weeks.

Heard a prediction that it's going to stay very cold all of February. It's quite cold here now, not unseasonally so however. I think the worst (best) is yet to come. :D
 

AndyW

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Nov 12, 2006
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It's strange as I was thinking about this thread the other day on hearing that we should expect a cold February.

I find it quite surprising a number of people here were predicting January to be mild and then February to be cold. Own up then, whose got the crystal ball?:240:
 

Greywolf

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Jun 5, 2005
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Jon Pickett said:
How can trees predict the future........????


It's not that the tree can predict the future, its because birds and animals would normally have stripped the fruits from the branches. The fact the fruit wasn't suggested that they had been gaining food from somewhere else, but they had started to eat the 'hard times' food which suggests a change in the weather heading to harder times ahead.

So trees can predict the weather, kind of anyway ;)


GW
 

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