Thread: So whats going on with the weather then? Wheres the rain?
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Old May 13th 11, 08:36 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default So whats going on with the weather then? Wheres the rain?
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Global warming discussions aside, whats the immediate cause of this very
dry weather we've been having this year? I read in a paper a while back
that lack of ice in the artic might be a partial cause.

Prolonged atmospheric Atlantic blocking.

Will
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Ah, but what is causing the prolonged atmospheric Atlantic blocking?

Part climate change, part synoptics and possibly SST patterns.


Which, of course, is a direct result of the dry weather we've been
having this year.

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