dolanbaker wrote:This also co-coincided with two of the longest cold spells of winter for decades here in Ireland.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
dohboi wrote:The temperature in any particular winter in any particular place, especially such a tiny spot in the globe as Ireland (sorry about that), is essentially irrelevant.
"It was actually a twin peak cycle..."
Somehow, I don't find that comforting--rather creepy, actually:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsZUsnPYGss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nSqDMq ... pJe873X0bz
dohboi wrote:To circle back to the topic more or less, as dolan's beautiful graphs show, and as T reminds us, recent solar activities are at their lowest for about 100 years at least, yet we have the hottest global temps on record.
As Lore pointed out, cooler weather in Ireland and some other parts of Europe are very likely due to the slowing of the AMOC, the titular theme of the thread.
sea surface heights off the US East Coast are more than 30 centimeters (one foot) above the 1979 to 2015 average.
onlooker wrote:Actually no Dohboi, I mean a abrupt halt in the transference of heat via the Conveyor/Gulf Stream that would plunge Northern Hemisphere into a freeze perhaps also via humongous storms that would have devastating effects on Northern Hemisphere and bury it under snow as per the referenced movie.
Cid_Yama wrote:The Gulf Stream brings warmth to UK and northern Europe. When it slows or stops, temperatures become more like other locations on the planet at that latitude.
In other words, the Gulf Stream made them warmer than they usually would be, the lose just returns them to what would normally be expected at that latitude. No Ice sheets, no mega ice hurricanes.
That movie did a lot of damage with regards to the understanding of average individuals.
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