On May 12, 7:55*pm, Adam Lea wrote:
On 12/05/11 18:44, Will Hand wrote:



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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?

No-one knows is, unfortunately, frustratingly and very interestingly,
the answer, or someone would be able to predict whether it would
happen with some success. No-one yet can. *))