bloody weather!

[Apache]

How comes it is fair through the week yet, without fail, clouds over nicely on friday for the weekend?

[Apache]

goldblum said:

turbobloke said:

It's chaotic behaviour.

So, define 'normal' as these episodes happen normally.

Nothing to do with lemonade fizz from PHers' cars.

Nope Sky news weathergirl just said it's not normal jetstream fluctuation,and she's a professional.

warming southern oceans is one such theory

[Apache]

kerplunk said:

thinfourth2 said:

What record?

The ones in the news recently.

Oh, the broken ones?

Edited by Apache on Wednesday 11th July 19:50

[Apache]

There was a chap from some University in the US being interviewed on CNN last night, he was saying that 'extreme weather' was down to a warming planet so I guess that's the expression a la mode.
I'm still puzzled about this though as none of the extremes of weather seem to be anything that han't occured in the distant past, as for the recent past, there's also the fact that the IPCC and Prof Jones concede......no statistically significant warming has been seen since 1995, so how can current 'extremes' of weather be blamed on a warming planet?

[Apache]

kerplunk said:

thinfourth2 said:

According to one of the other great relgions the earth is 6000 years old

Do you think that records that cover 3.7% of the history of the earth are giving a very true picture of our weather

That would be an ecumenical matter.

careful now

[Apache]

People don't like change do they

[Apache]

kerplunk said:

turbobloke said:

Maybe or maybe not the point concerned the climate or indeed weather equivalent of the broken watch thing. If you wait, then at some point it will be right - but for the wrong reasons.

Sure I get the stopped clock anaolgy, but the question in that context is: are stopped clock events happening more often?

That's a slightly different thing because trends are possibly indicative of a cause (eg. a warming world) and not chaotic behaviour.

That's a bit of a stretch isn't it?

First off do we have any way of showing 'extreme weather' to be increasing in a way that hasn't been seen in the past?
If we do, could it be attributed to something?
Finally, is that 'something' caused by man?

There's a long way to go before we start beating ourselves up over a stty summer plunkers