"Col" wrote in message
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"AliCat" wrote in
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Surface temperature would be below zero across
the
whole surface of the earth within a few days.
The
oceans hold an enormous amount of heat and
what we
would probably recognise as weather systems
would
continue until they froze to a great enough
depth
to insulate what heat remains trapped below to
such an extent that there was little to
differentiate between frozen water and land
(in
the order of 10's of metres, which would take
several months). Thereafter there would be
little
meridonal flow (N-S/S-N). After a year or two
or
three surface temperature would be 100K, or
less
with little or no wind at the surface. Life as
we
know it would have ceased, but some deep ocean
beasties may survive. I doubt access to
nuclear/fossil fuels would help us much. Some
bacteria may survive in deep freeze for
millennia,
most gasses would have liquefied/solidified at
this kind of timescale, with temperature not
far
off cosmic microwave background radiation
values.


I would imagine vast anticyclones of
unimaginable intensity would quickly
form over all land masses, even the tropical
ones. The Sahara can
become quite cold at night even now.
The temperature contrast from the still warm
oceans to that over the land
would be enormous. I think that the weather in
continental fringes such
as the UK would be 'interesting' to say the
least!
Ferocious blizzards would result, the snow
probably piling up many metres
high. But of course unlike now when the mild air
often wins the cold air will
push relentlessly on into the Atlantic.......

I'm not sure about this. The Earth would still be
spinning, so depressions would still form and move
across the continents, transferring energy from
the oceans and mitigating the radiative cooling.
Once the oceans froze, things would begin to
settle down.

Whatever, it would really bugger up the global
warming advocacy group's "hockey stick" forecast!