Last SST Anomaly map for 2006.
 

http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SS...12.30.2006.gif

Trying to work out why the SST anomaly is so low close to Newfoundland
and Nova Scotia as it hasn't been cold in that region generally.
Forgetting the warm SST's above 50° Lat, it almost looks as though the
flow is further south. Also with a cooler pool to the south of 50° Lat,
the less steep gradient I should have though would produce much less
westerly mobility.

Still don't know what implications that massive cold pool in the NE
Pacific has?

Any thoughts, because the current weather pattern does not fit my line
of thought.
--
Keith (Southend)
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e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

Last SST Anomaly map for 2006.
 

In article ,
"Keith (Southend)" writes:
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SS...12.30.2006.gif

Trying to work out why the SST anomaly is so low close to Newfoundland
and Nova Scotia as it hasn't been cold in that region generally.
snip

A stronger West Greenland Current than usual? IIRC, that flows past
those regions. In turn, could that be due to more ice-melt in Greenland
during the summer than usual?
--
John Hall

"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Last SST Anomaly map for 2006.
 

John Hall wrote:

In article ,
"Keith (Southend)" writes:
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SS...12.30.2006.gif

Trying to work out why the SST anomaly is so low close to Newfoundland
and Nova Scotia as it hasn't been cold in that region generally.
snip

A stronger West Greenland Current than usual? IIRC, that flows past
those regions. In turn, could that be due to more ice-melt in Greenland
during the summer than usual?

Must be a problem with the climatology. The water in that area would
normally be near freezing-point at this time of year so how can it be a
couple of degrees colder than that? The St Lawrence Gulf is shown as being
more than 3C below normal. Considering there's little or or no ice there
yet, that's a load of [insert your own favourite expletive here].

--
Graham Davis
Bracknell

Last SST Anomaly map for 2006.
 

Graham P Davis wrote:
John Hall wrote:

In article ,
"Keith (Southend)" writes:
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SS...12.30.2006.gif

Trying to work out why the SST anomaly is so low close to Newfoundland
and Nova Scotia as it hasn't been cold in that region generally.
snip

A stronger West Greenland Current than usual? IIRC, that flows past
those regions. In turn, could that be due to more ice-melt in Greenland
during the summer than usual?

Must be a problem with the climatology. The water in that area would
normally be near freezing-point at this time of year so how can it be a
couple of degrees colder than that? The St Lawrence Gulf is shown as being
more than 3C below normal. Considering there's little or or no ice there
yet, that's a load of [insert your own favourite expletive here].


Bah, bang goes that theory, now where was that last straw to clutch ;-)

--
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

Last SST Anomaly map for 2006.
 

Keith (Southend) wrote:
Graham P Davis wrote:
John Hall wrote:

In article ,
"Keith (Southend)" writes:
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SS...12.30.2006.gif

Trying to work out why the SST anomaly is so low close to Newfoundland
and Nova Scotia as it hasn't been cold in that region generally.
snip

A stronger West Greenland Current than usual? IIRC, that flows past
those regions. In turn, could that be due to more ice-melt in Greenland
during the summer than usual?

Must be a problem with the climatology. The water in that area would
normally be near freezing-point at this time of year so how can it be a
couple of degrees colder than that? The St Lawrence Gulf is shown as being
more than 3C below normal. Considering there's little or or no ice there
yet, that's a load of [insert your own favourite expletive here].


Bah, bang goes that theory, now where was that last straw to clutch ;-)

What theory? And where is Alastair MacDonald these days?

He might be able to tell us why it isn't iced over. Has the cold deep
current discontinued or risen to the surface for some reason? Thus
explaining the counterpart in the Weddell Sea?

What about that hot stream skirting the cold you mention? It is running
from Cape Hatteras to around past Newfoundland and seems to run
continuously through to the Arctic, by Svarlbad.

Last SST Anomaly map for 2006.
 

In message , John Hall
writes
In article ,
"Keith (Southend)" writes:
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SS...12.30.2006.gif

Trying to work out why the SST anomaly is so low close to Newfoundland
and Nova Scotia as it hasn't been cold in that region generally.
snip

A stronger West Greenland Current than usual? IIRC, that flows past
those regions. In turn, could that be due to more ice-melt in Greenland
during the summer than usual?
There was certainly more ice melt than usual in SW Greenland when we
were there in early August. Several ice fjords that are normally
navigable by canoe were impassable due to the number of bergs being
produced from the glaciers - according to the locals this only happens
if the melt rate is significantly higher than usual.

Will
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