On Friday 01 Jan 2010 17:48, Keith(Southend) scribbled:

If this cold pool at 40°C Lat / 40° Long is one of the indicators for
European cold winters it's stronger than ever now! Time to get a bigger
shovel grin

http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/data/sst/a...12.31.2009.gif

A warm anomaly there also gave us cold winters in the 60s! The difference is
that a cold pool gives high-pressure anomaly over Iceland and low near the
Azores, so we probably get NE winds.

With a warm anomaly we get a mid-Atlantic high and Norwegian Sea low so NW
flow is more likely in the UK. In the 60s these were darned cold because of
the massive amounts of ice off E Greenland.

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