We have had constanty windy conditions in the UK since last year. Is it becase of global warming??

Question

July should be feeling warm by now but had goosepimples because of the cold wind yet again yesterday. Are these winds ever likely to slow down and/or come from warmer climates???

Answer 1

No, the windy conditions are what we should expect in our maritime climate. The Global Warming Hysteria is simply a chattering class shibboleth. Be wary of anything put forward by a failed politician like Al Gore. Did you know he also claimed to have invented the Internet? He is a pretty delusional sort of guy.

Answer 2

What happens is the sun projects heat over the earth. This heat then becomes energy (kinetic). The heat deflects off the earth and travels away. The ozone layer is supposed to keep this kinetic energy in. But because the sun is decaying the ozone layer this kinetic energy is escaping thus leaving you cold. But don't worry by the time global warming would take effect you would be long gone. Plus by then we'll have invented ways of preventing it (like healing the ozone layer, which has already been discovered. But don't worry cause you can look forward to a very hot fall/ autumn

Answer 3

Caused by a surfit of baked beans brother.

Answer 4

Makes me question whether global warming exists at all!

Answer 5

There's no "should" about British weather. It's changeable from year to year - we've had crappy Julys before, and we'll have them again.

Global warming is about long term trends over a number of years, rather than individual events, which would be impossible to link to climate change. Neither does it mean that the UK will have warmer weather - only the world as a whole.

Answer 6

Nothing to do with global warming. To have 'summer' weather in the UK, you need either:

- The Acores anti-cyclone to move north as it sometimes does when the polar front shrinks toward the north as the pole is heated by the midnight sun. It doesn't seem to happen yet this year.

- A stationaly high builds over Scandinavia. It looks like it is coming right now but it is still uncertain how long it will last.

In both cases, the usual passing of lows on your latitude (I live in south Norway) is impeded by a high pressure. It happens when the jetstreams are not very strong, which is about three times a year but it varies a lot from year to year.

Answer 7

The wind speed across the island of Britain at this time of year is usually about 12 - 15 mph or sometimes as high as 20+mph.

We have in actual fact only just entered the Summer - which starts from the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge on or about the 21st June each year.

Real Summer in UK is very short, usually only about six to eight weeks at best.

Historically everyone took their summer vacations here in UK from sometime in late July and on through August when the weather is generally at it's best.

Britain is subject to the vagiaries of Atlantic weather, the wind usually being in the South West most of the time.

The Island of Britain is overcast for 75% of the time.

The Island of Britain has more hurricains than anywhere else on Earth, yet we hardly notice, we're probably far too busy complaining about the weather - one of our main hobbies.

UK WEATHER

Focus: Whatever's happened to the weather? | Higher ...Last week's weather will eventually become the norm. ... It is also worth noting that the UK was warmer as little as 1000 years ago. ...

http://www.education.guardian.co.uk/high...

Severe Weather Prompts Unprecedented Global Warming Alert The ...In an astonishing announcement on global warming and extreme weather, the World Meteorological ... have been gradually increasing over the past 100 years. ...

http://www.rense.com/general38/alert.htm

ClimateChangeCorp.com3 Jun 2008 ... Research by the UK’s MeT office has shown that the earth has warmed between one or two degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. ...

http://www.climatechangecorp.com/content...

Daniel Dafoe - the first recorded account of a hurricain over England.

WEATHER: Nota Bene: The Havock, Distraction, and Fury Given the roughness of that summer and the political unease in early 18th-century England, it is not surprising that the advent of a storm of such ...

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/fu...

The Great Storm of 1703 -

http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/al...

. . . .you ain't seen nothing yet. . . .