The Extreme Weather Death Spiral

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1. Rob H says:

   October 26, 2013 at 3:09 pm

   And I might add it appears that we have the fewest people believing climate alarmists in 20 years also.

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2. tom0mason says:

   October 26, 2013 at 3:27 pm

   1751-1760 (10 years)
   In England, the summers of this period were the wettest in a record that began in 1697. These 10 wet summers in a row produced an overall anomaly of 127% of the modern-era mean.
   1751 in particular is regarded as a notably wet year, at least in the London/SE region. It included a wet March, a wet first two-thirds of May and some severe thunderstorms & flooding in November.
   The 1752 summer (London/SE) was noted as ‘cool & damp’.
   More wet summers for London/SE in 1755, 1756 & 1758.
   March 1774
   12th(NSP): Henley bridge (Berkshire / Oxfordshire border) destroyed by flood waters – partly tidal (!) though primarily due to heavy rainfall/fluvial drainage. This flood was the highest on record at Teddington, and more generally the worst flood of the 18th century along the Thames Valley. The sequence of events (a deep/penetrating frost leading to frozen ground, some heavy snow, then a rapid thaw accompanied by heavy rain) led to the flooding (and remember the sub-soil was already saturated after the sustained rainfall since the previous autumn. 12th March was the nominal high point of the Thames flood. Elsewhere, 50 acres of land destroyed by a landslip at Selbourne (Hants). At Mapledurham, (between Pangbourne & Reading), recent estimates are that the flood level at this point was 0.6m / 2ft above the level of the major inundation of 1894 (q.v.)
   http://booty.org.uk/booty.weather/climate/1750_1799.htm

   1901 (December):
   1. NE GALE/SNOWSTORM 12th: cut communications in all parts of England. (TEC). This was caused by a DEEP DEPRESSION moving east up the English Channel. In England, SNOW heavily blocked roads and caused havoc for livestock. Many telegraph wires were brought down and the railways were brought to a standstill.

   1919 (September):
   1. A late spell of HOT weather early in the month. (Raunds, Northamptonshire max on the 11th was 32.2degC, Nottingham on the same day 29.4degC: the next day [ 12th ] Nottingham MAXIMUM was just 13.9 degC).
   2. Following the hot spell, there was an exceptionally EARLY SNOWFALL overnight 19th / 20th of several inches (at least 2 inches/ 5cm at Princeton) on Dartmoor and other elevated areas (Herefordshire specifically known: elevation ~300ft), with snow of lesser cover being reported from Wales, The Midlands, Dorset & Devon. Reports of snow cover at low levels in Scotland & Northern England, with a substantial covering over higher ground throughout Wales (lying on slopes of the Black Mountains/SE Wales down to an altitude of 1300ft), covering the Clee Hills in Shropshire and also over Exmoor and Dartmoor (see above). Sleet showers observed at lower levels as far south as the Thames Valley. Cyclonic/northerly flow.
   http://booty.org.uk/booty.weather/climate/1900_1949.htm

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3. X says:

   October 27, 2013 at 4:49 am

   “… A late spell of HOT weather early in the month. (Raunds, Northamptonshire max on the 11th was 32.2degC, Nottingham on the same day 29.4degC: the next day [ 12th ] Nottingham MAXIMUM was just 13.9 degC)… “
   I have seen patterns similar to this sudden shift in a matter of few hours in connection with strong solar flares. I remember to have observed this more than once in 2011 and the relatively strong flare that happened few days ago.

   Solar cycles C14 and C15 had relatively low averages of intensity, but had also some spikes of strong radiation comparable to C23, as we can see in the ssn count
   http://s1282.photobucket.com/user/dhm4444/media/ssncon_zps8d97b454.jpg.html?sort=3&o=16

   and the aa-index
   http://i1282.photobucket.com/albums/a532/dhm4444/aaindex-tot_zps8cddb9c2.jpg

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