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I don't know what others think of the WUWT site, but they've posted an interesting article on the North Atlantic temps. With a number of graphs charting the history. Worth sauntering through it.

 

I think as it stands right now, it's more likely to deliver some cold weather to Europe but not globally.

The current solar cycle isn't appreciably different from the last one.

 

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/08/21/the-north-atlantic-ground-zero-of-global-cooling/

 

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Monthly heat content anomaly in the uppermost 700 metres of the North Atlantic

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I'd argue the wind stress(es) associated with a strong underlying +NAO/expanded Atlantic Hadley Cell in recent years is to blame for the changes in the deep Atlantic circulation and thermocline.

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I'd argue the wind stress(es) associated with a strong underlying +NAO/expanded Atlantic Hadley Cell in recent years is to blame for the changes in the deep Atlantic circulation and thermocline.

 

Well, I don't have the qualifications to argue that point with you. But I do remember reading about the N. Atlantic cold spot and how it ties to meltwater from Greenland. Seemed to make sense. 

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Well, I don't have the qualifications to argue that point with you. But I do remember reading about the N. Atlantic cold spot and how it ties to meltwater from Greenland. Seemed to make sense.

True, but really if anything the rate of Greenland melting has slowed since 2012, thanks to the raging +NAO summers in recent years. If this NATL cooling had occurred following a string of warm/-NAO summers, that'd be another story.

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To me it seems to be an East Coast thing where everyone thinks the Atlantic rules the world.  I'm not so sure.

 

That graph certainly is intriguing though.  I wonder if the lag from the solar grand maximum is beginning to wear off.  Makes sense the Atlantic would react first since it's smaller.

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Total Snowfall = 1.0"

Day with 1" or more snow depth = 1

Total Hail = 0.0

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Coldest Low = 13

Lows 32 or below = 45

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I don't know what others think of the WUWT site, but they've posted an interesting article on the North Atlantic temps. With a number of graphs charting the history. Worth sauntering through it.

 

I think as it stands right now, it's more likely to deliver some cold weather to Europe but not globally.

The current solar cycle isn't appreciably different from the last one.

 

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/08/21/the-north-atlantic-ground-zero-of-global-cooling/

 

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Monthly heat content anomaly in the uppermost 700 metres of the North Atlantic

 

I think this solar cycle is actually on course to be much lower than the last one.  For the point of the cycle we are at we've already had an impressive number of spotless days since the solar max compared to previous cycles.

Death To Warm Anomalies!

 

Winter 2023-24 stats

 

Total Snowfall = 1.0"

Day with 1" or more snow depth = 1

Total Hail = 0.0

Total Ice = 0.2

Coldest Low = 13

Lows 32 or below = 45

Highs 32 or below = 3

Lows 20 or below = 3

Highs 40 or below = 9

 

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As wxstatman said, the one place on earth actually expected to see cooling with global warming is the north Atlantic. There are a couple of reasons for this including increased melt, and changes to the oceanic circulation. 

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I'm enjoying the discussion. I was thinking about this this weekend and I recalled a study that Cambridge Univ. did back in 2004 in the North Atlantic.

 

They announced that one or perhaps two of the "pumps" in the North Atlantic have ceased to operate. Would this not affect the temps in the Northern Atlantic reaches first or early on as the global circulation slows ? It's 12 years on now from that study. I've not run across any current information on that but it would be interesting to know how the pumps and circulation tie into the North Atlantic temps.

Any thoughts?

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As wxstatman said, the one place on earth actually expected to see cooling with global warming is the north Atlantic. There are a couple of reasons for this including increased melt, and changes to the oceanic circulation. 

 

That idea is the premise for that movie they did a few years back about a sudden ice age developing.

 

I still think it's premature to say any warming we have experienced isn't a natural cycle.  As I've said before sea level managed to rise over 50 feet since the last ice age and most of that had nothing to with AGW.  I just laugh when the global warming freaks go nuts over a sea level rise of 1 inch.  Everything we have seen is well within the envelope of what could happen all by itself.  But that's a different topic of course...

Death To Warm Anomalies!

 

Winter 2023-24 stats

 

Total Snowfall = 1.0"

Day with 1" or more snow depth = 1

Total Hail = 0.0

Total Ice = 0.2

Coldest Low = 13

Lows 32 or below = 45

Highs 32 or below = 3

Lows 20 or below = 3

Highs 40 or below = 9

 

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That idea is the premise for that movie they did a few years back about a sudden ice age developing.

 

I still think it's premature to say any warming we have experienced isn't a natural cycle. As I've said before sea level managed to rise over 50 feet since the last ice age and most of that had nothing to with AGW. I just laugh when the global warming freaks go nuts over a sea level rise of 1 inch. Everything we have seen is well within the envelope of what could happen all by itself. But that's a different topic of course...

Sea levels have risen hundreds of meters since the last ice age.

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