On 12/05/11 18:44, Will Hand wrote:

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Global warming discussions aside, whats the immediate cause of this very
dry weather we've been having this year? I read in a paper a while back
that lack of ice in the artic might be a partial cause.

Prolonged atmospheric Atlantic blocking.

Will
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Ah, but what is causing the prolonged atmospheric Atlantic blocking?

"Adam Lea" wrote in message
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On 12/05/11 18:44, Will Hand wrote:

wrote in message
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Global warming discussions aside, whats the immediate cause of this very
dry weather we've been having this year? I read in a paper a while back
that lack of ice in the artic might be a partial cause.

Prolonged atmospheric Atlantic blocking.

Will
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Ah, but what is causing the prolonged atmospheric Atlantic blocking?

Part climate change, part synoptics and possibly SST patterns.

Will
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In article ,
says...
Global warming discussions aside, whats the immediate cause of this very
dry weather we've been having this year? I read in a paper a while back
that lack of ice in the artic might be a partial cause.

Prolonged atmospheric Atlantic blocking.

Will
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Ah, but what is causing the prolonged atmospheric Atlantic blocking?

Part climate change, part synoptics and possibly SST patterns.


Which, of course, is a direct result of the dry weather we've been
having this year.

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Alan LeHun

On May 12, 7:55*pm, Adam Lea wrote:
On 12/05/11 18:44, Will Hand wrote:



wrote in message
...
Global warming discussions aside, whats the immediate cause of this very
dry weather we've been having this year? I read in a paper a while back
that lack of ice in the artic might be a partial cause.

Prolonged atmospheric Atlantic blocking.

Will
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Ah, but what is causing the prolonged atmospheric Atlantic blocking?

No-one knows is, unfortunately, frustratingly and very interestingly,
the answer, or someone would be able to predict whether it would
happen with some success. No-one yet can. *))

On 12/05/2011 15:49, d wrote:
Global warming discussions aside, whats the immediate cause of this very
dry weather we've been having this year? I read in a paper a while back
that lack of ice in the artic might be a partial cause.

On a related topic, where is all our rain going? Unless theres been less
evaporation from the ocean it must be heading somewhere.

B2003


At friend of mine in Indiana, US has had way above average rainfall in
March and April.