On 18/12/16 19:48, Adam Lea wrote:
On 18/12/2016 17:45, Chris Smith wrote:
All I want for Christmas is for someone to turn the weather machine
back on. It's just been boring recently - no jetstream to move things
along, but too much maritime influence to make it anything other than
a gloomfest. I don't mind a good ol' Christmas Storm, TBH.


I think the very stagnant nature of the weather in itself interesting,
it makes me wonder what sort of things can happen to break it down. Is
it anything to do with the unusually slow recovery of Arctic sea ice and
anomalously high temperatures up there in autumn, or that we are
approacing a solar minimum.

If the Boxing Day GFS forecast turns out to be correct, someone may be
turning the weather machine up to 11!

I admit to having been a bit bored lately to see almost every morning
that I can only see one pointer on my barometer as it hasn't changed
from the day before.


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