Low SST north of Faeroes
Dick Lovett
north of Faeroes with a value less than 1C in the vicinity of 65N 08W.
This is about 3C lower than the 1951-80 averages that I have for this
area. Pity there is no sign of a sustained northerly to take advantage
of it. http://85.214.49.20/wz/pics/brack5.gif
Dick Lovett
Charlbury
Dave Cornwell
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So that's where all that melted ice has gone ;-)
Dave
Dick Lovett
<davemccignoret...@ignoreblueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> "Dick Lovett" <lovew...@aol.com> wrote in message
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> news:fd80a6e2-cc5e-41eb...@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com...> The lastest SST chart from Met Office Exeter shows unusually low SST
> > north of Faeroes with a value less than 1C in the vicinity of 65N 08W.
> > This is about 3C lower than the 1951-80 averages that I have for this
> > area. Pity there is no sign of a sustained northerly to take advantage
>
> > Dick Lovett
> > Charlbury
>
> ------------------------
> So that's where all that melted ice has gone ;-)
>
> Dave
HH Lamb has an interesting piece in 'The Changing Climate' where he
quotes that at least on one occasion a tongue of the polar pack ice is
believed to have reached the Faeroe Islands and the occurance is
commemorated by a local place-name where a polar bear that came ashore
was killed. There are also a few recorded cases of Eskimoes in their
kayaks turning up in northerm Scotland between 1682 and 1843. Lamb
mentions that the last occasion when extensive ice was met by vessels
near the Faeroe Islands was in 1888.
Dick Lovett
MetMan
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So has anyone any idea why this anomoly has occurred? Looking at the
mean January pressure pattern
http://www.climate-uk.com/monpre/0801.htm
the mean flow has been southwesterly, though obviously with some
northerly interludes, but nothing that would tend to imply cold
conditions.
Is it melting ice that has been brought south by the current or is the
anomoly actually real?
Just curious.
Bernard Burton
some locations there has been a swing of 1.5 C over the past 5 days, and it
just doesn't look right. Perhaps they have changed something at the MO.
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Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.
Satellite images at:
www.woksat.info/wwp.html
or
www.btinternet.com/~wokingham.weather/wwp.html
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Dick Lovett
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> I looked at that chart earlier, and it all looks a bit strange to me. At
> some locations there has been a swing of 1.5 C over the past 5 days, and it
> just doesn't look right. Perhaps they have changed something at the MO.
>
> --
> Bernard Burton
> Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.
>
> Satellite images at:www.woksat.info/wwp.html
>
> news:fd80a6e2-cc5e-41eb...@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
> > The lastest SST chart from Met Office Exeter shows unusually low SST
> > north of Faeroes with a value less than 1C in the vicinity of 65N 08W.
> > This is about 3C lower than the 1951-80 averages that I have for this
> > area. Pity there is no sign of a sustained northerly to take advantage
> > of it.http://85.214.49.20/wz/pics/brack5.gif
>
> > Dick Lovett
>
> - Show quoted text -
Bernard,
You may well be right.
Looking at the SST chart at the Norwegian Met Institute,
http://retro.met.no/kyst_og_hav/ice_temp_anim_0.html, suggests the Met
Office values are perhaps a little too low.
Dick Lovett
Rodney Blackall
<fd80a6e2-cc5e-41eb...@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
So that finally disproves all those "criminal AGW scares" -:)
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Rodney Blackall (retired meteorologist)(BSc, FRMetS, MRI)
Buckingham, ENGLAND
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