"ron button" wrote in message
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"Lawrence Jenkins" wrote in message
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Real rut this winter we've been caught in the cross hairs of the Atlantic
conveyor belt super turbo charged by the jet stream and it all seems to
have gone in a blink really. Snow is now a thing of the past again.

As a musing I wonder how weather patterns look in a warming regime or a
cooling regime. With the USA and snow cover down to lower latitudes
because of the stuck jet stream does that increase overall albedo in the
low latitudes where the energy coming in is far higher so therefore the
snow cover has a far greater effect on energy reflected back as opposed
to the higher latitudes where the still is hard any direct solar energy.
Just a thought

You've just beaten me to it Lawrence ,as I was about to write that here in
my part of the southeast not only has there been no lying snow this winter
but NONE falling either !
In all my 50 years of recording that has not happened before,
In case this should get the AWG brigade salvinating ,lets get the wind
back into the north or east to completely change things once more

RonB

Here in Dorset, where we only have snow every ten years, I rember once when
it happened in April, so I haven't started drolling yet :-(

Cheers, Alastair.