Looking at the next seven days at least it looks like the reversal could
have begun already ,goodbye glitch.....?

RonB
"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
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"Joe Hunt" wrote in message
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"danny" wrote in message
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| I would say the type of weather you describe, is no longer possible
in
the
| UK... for the time being anyway.
| First things first, we need this rapid rise in temperature during
January
| and February to halt.
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| Meant to add.... Which of course ties in with a turn round in current
| weather patterns.
|

I'm sorry, lost again in your scientific wizardry. Could you just
explain
how
this "rapid rise in temperatures during Jan and Feb of course ties in
with
a
turn around un current weather patterns" ? Current weather patterns
being
zonality, the climatological normal ?

Joe, what is interesting is that the increasing westerliness of Januarys
(and,
to a lesser extent, Februarys) does appear to have reversed, and the rise
in mean monthly temperature has apparently reached a plateau. The
westerliness index across the British Isles, meaned over ten years,
reached a January peak in 1988-97, and has been decreasing year by
year ever since.

What we don't know, of course, is whether or not this is just a glitch in
the inexorable advance of mobility.

Philip Eden