Mark Vogan's 2010-2011 UK and Europe Winter Forecast......available here on October 31st, 2010
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Today's Weather across America
From AccuWeather
VIDEO: Heads Up: New Week; Different Weather Pattern
Bernie Rayno and Paul Pastelok
Very Warm Sunday Shaping Up for Los Angeles
By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist
Frost, Freeze Warnings for Parts of Interior Northeast US
By Vickie Frantz, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer
Weather Talk
By Mark Vogan
A HOT PATTERN FOR OCTOBER ON THE AMERICAN PLAINS, DOES THIS MEAN IT'S CAUSED BY GLOBAL WARMING OR NATURAL LONG TERM CHANGES?
In all honesty, the blowtorch July-like heat that's roasted areas of the central and northern Plains in the past 48 hours isn't a terribly unusual as it seems, many years appear to produce both unusual spells of warmth as well as cold during times of the year where it would "seem", going by the calender, shouldn't happen.
The 87 degree high in Minneapolis and 90 in Mankato and Redwood Falls yesterday was by no means common, in fact that's July-level heat and a true record breaker for so late in the year. However, my question to you is, can we really and honestly blame this on global warming when it could simply be a trend of greater "extremes" in a somewhat turbulent climatic period, a period in which we are seeing large-scale and long term changes in our earth's atmosphere and overall climate which matches the theory that our world in ready to cooldown for the next 30 or so years?
In order for these huge changes to occur and of course over a period of years (periods 10 or more years), surely extremes occur in the process and why can't we see unusual or even extreme heat occur or extreme cold occur at "unusual times of the year"?
This is a little food for thought and something I hope to discuss further and in more detail either tomorrow or Monday!
Vagaries of the Weather
India & Sub-Continental Asia Weather
By Rajesh Kapadia
Cherrapunji Rainfall from 1st. Jan to 9th.October 2010.
13150 mms OR 1315 CMS OR 13 MTS OR 526 INCHES OR 44 FEET !! (Normal Annual is 11070 mms).
CERTAINLY LIVING UP TO ITS REPUTATION !!
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What's Reaching Today's Blogs?
Symptoms of Climate Change? (90 possible close to home again today)
Paul Douglas Weather Column, Weather Nation
Dew Drops and Snow: Superb Weather Photos
Jesse Ferrell, AccuWeather
Pacific One-Two Punch
Brett Anderson, Canada Expert, AccuWeather
Today's Extremes here at my house
High: 56 degrees
Low: 54 degrees
TODAY'S COND
A surprisingly cool day with a strong east wind roaring all night, both suspending temps in the mild mid-50s all night but making it feel far more like the low 40s, had the wind been less strong and the "mixing of air" less prominant, the low would certainly have been in the 40s this morning. A day of overall windy conditions, persistening out of the east and this continued to feed cloud in off the North Sea, holding a high here to a dissapointing 56 degrees.
Thanks for reading.
-Mark
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