Frozen Britain Seen from AboveEnvironmental | 206885 hits | Jan 12 8:47 am | Posted by: commanderkai  This striking image taken by Nasa's Terra satellite on 7 January 2010 shows the UK deep in the clutches of the current cold snap.Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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I bet there's plenty of old Brit's snuffing it on this one, poor buggers.
Looks like Global warming.
Strange that Ireland looks as green as ever.
I know, a lot of people thought it was a hoax...once I found a legitimate news organization, and not a blog, I posted it.
Strange that Ireland looks as green as ever.
I know, a lot of people thought it was a hoax...once I found a legitimate news organization, and not a blog, I posted it.
I'm a bit of a weather geek and being a Brit I know a little about the weather patterns.
This particular cold/warm front that precipitated some much snow followed up with a severe cold front is a result of air masses and weather systems flowing east to west. As in from the northern European land mass, blowing in a SW pattern. These invariably bring arctic weather systems which are usually challenged by NE temperate weather from the warm Atlantic gulfstream.
In this case due to convection, the SW fronts condensed over the British high ground of the Pennines and Grampians etc, falling as snow before they could get as far west as Ireland. This is a less than usual weather pattern but easily explained. Ireland stays green because of British hills!
Looks like the end of the movie Day After Tomorrow...
Really? I don't see anyone walking away from the photo in disgust demanding their money back.
ok, I'll say it.
Looks like Global warming.
You're not kidding. It's 5 deg on top of Cypress right now, malting all teh snow they reserevd for the Olympics. Anotehr warm front moving in right now.
Looks like the end of the movie Day After Tomorrow...
Really? I don't see anyone walking away from the photo in disgust demanding their money back.
It was a crap movie. The wolves were just funny.
ok, I'll say it.
Looks like Global warming.
You're not kidding. It's 5 deg on top of Cypress right now, malting all teh snow they reserevd for the Olympics. Anotehr warm front moving in right now.
We had the same thing happen in 1988 with chinook after chinook hitting the ski slopes right before and during the Calgary games. As far as problems go it wasn't enough to stop Alberto Tomba from winning five downhill golds, or something like that.
Stuff happens. That's what the artifical snow-making equipment is there for anyway.
ok, I'll say it.
Looks like Global warming.
You're not kidding. It's 5 deg on top of Cypress right now, malting all teh snow they reserevd for the Olympics. Anotehr warm front moving in right now.
We had the same thing happen in 1988 with chinook after chinook hitting the ski slopes right before and during the Calgary games. As far as problems go it wasn't enough to stop Alberto Tomba from winning five downhill golds, or something like that.
Stuff happens. That's what the artifical snow-making equipment is there for anyway.
Besides there's still lots of time for snow to fall. But if it doesn't, be prepared for three weeks of media-saturated hand-wringing about global warming ruining the Olympics.
Besides there's still lots of time for snow to fall. But if it doesn't, be prepared for three weeks of media-saturated hand-wringing about global warming ruining the Olympics.
yup, we better hope it starts snowing.
but wait! Snow is a sign of Global Warming!
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Nature-C ... rming.aspx