On Jan 1, 6:37*pm, Graham P Davis wrote:
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.

We get snow with a Greenland High and a Scandinavian Low.

I haven't bothered much checking things but are surface pressures
flaccid or sharply contrasted?

I've just had a look at the lunar phases for this year and can't work
with them. More negative anomaly. Still it will be an idea to reset my
clock on this stuff, if this is the best of the charts on it.

What is the Danish/Baltic stuff based on? Made over models from these
people?