On 20/02/2014 14:17, ron button wrote:
"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




It reminds me of the 1990's when we had wet mild winters and a wind
predominately from the SW, and GW glowballs were saying snow is a thing
of the past.

It's probable that the same won't happen over the next three winters, as
this winter. Otherwise you can slap my ass and call me a GW believer.

Joe.