Re: You just got me thinking
Posted by Tim_NC on 1/2/2011, 5:02 pm
If the East and Deep South were having an oven of a winter...with falling SSTs....my curiosity would be piqued. But with this persistent cold pattern...and associated heat-sucking over-water winds...I'd say our SSTs are doing exactly what we'd expect of them.

Look at the SSTs west of Greenland (where massive amounts of warmth has been flowing); the SST anomaly is staggering. Again, just what we'd expect.

On another note...I'll tell you what really does pique my curiosity....and that's our Arctic ice cover.

Baffin Bay (the Atlantic west of Greenland) is so anomalously warm, it can't possibly build ice to the thickness we'd normally expect. With the jet stream redistributing cold to Europe and the Eastern U.S. instead of the North Atlantic and Hudson's Bay.....the lack of thickness may be followed by a lack of extent down the road. Perhaps a nasty feedback loop is underway?

There's a lot of weird stuff going on the last two years...but again I'm more interested in the profound break in our centuries-long sunspot pattern than oil in the Gulf. In ways to complex to get into (because I don't fully understand), the Sun seems to have a noticeable effect on the AO and or NAO; and that's exactly what's been going on since our solar activity came to a screeching halt a few years ago.

It's definitely going to take some time to figure all this out. Oh to be young and entering the field of meteorology; could there be anything more fascinating?

Tim in NC
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