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Wrabbit2000
The engine that drives our weather has developed a distinct ping and knock over time. Unfortunately, Earth has no mechanics with the knowledge or skill right now to do much more than make it worse, IMO.
Looks like a major vortex just below Iceland is pulling the cold air down off the Arctic and causing a lot of weather. Is that natural?
WhiteAlice
reply to post by Bilk22
From what i could tell, the perturbations of the jet stream in the North American region is causing a significant spike that is basically sling shotting these storms across the Atlantic and into the UK. It's actually running in a distinct stream from the SE corner of the US and right up to the UK. Not sure if it's still doing it but that's what it looked like a few days ago.
Bilk22
Looks like a major vortex just below Iceland is pulling the cold air down off the Arctic and causing a lot of weather. Is that natural?
WhiteAlice
reply to post by Bilk22
From what i could tell, the perturbations of the jet stream in the North American region is causing a significant spike that is basically sling shotting these storms across the Atlantic and into the UK. It's actually running in a distinct stream from the SE corner of the US and right up to the UK. Not sure if it's still doing it but that's what it looked like a few days ago.
Bilk22
Looks like a major vortex just below Iceland is pulling the cold air down off the Arctic and causing a lot of weather. Is that natural?
WhiteAlice
reply to post by Bilk22
From what i could tell, the perturbations of the jet stream in the North American region is causing a significant spike that is basically sling shotting these storms across the Atlantic and into the UK. It's actually running in a distinct stream from the SE corner of the US and right up to the UK. Not sure if it's still doing it but that's what it looked like a few days ago.
Thebel
Bilk22
Looks like a major vortex just below Iceland is pulling the cold air down off the Arctic and causing a lot of weather. Is that natural?
WhiteAlice
reply to post by Bilk22
From what i could tell, the perturbations of the jet stream in the North American region is causing a significant spike that is basically sling shotting these storms across the Atlantic and into the UK. It's actually running in a distinct stream from the SE corner of the US and right up to the UK. Not sure if it's still doing it but that's what it looked like a few days ago.
Its normal, this year. The wind is going around the lower pressure center. Those low pressures have caused flooding in Great Britain. I have never seen so many deep lower pressures developing in the Atlantic.
If you want to see Jet Streams, choose Height 250 hPa. Those winds are very fast and show how jet streams work.edit on 12-2-2014 by Thebel because: (no reason given)
Care to explain that in layman's terms?
WhiteAlice
Bilk22
Looks like a major vortex just below Iceland is pulling the cold air down off the Arctic and causing a lot of weather. Is that natural?
WhiteAlice
reply to post by Bilk22
From what i could tell, the perturbations of the jet stream in the North American region is causing a significant spike that is basically sling shotting these storms across the Atlantic and into the UK. It's actually running in a distinct stream from the SE corner of the US and right up to the UK. Not sure if it's still doing it but that's what it looked like a few days ago.
In a nutshell: No.. All of our peculiar weather patterns seem to be related to the behavior of the polar vortex. It has weakened and expanded so it's not sitting like a nice and tidy cap on the head of the earth like it usually is. I do know that some of the important oceanic currents that help regulate our typical weather are floundering a bit as well. The Labrador Current (northern originating) in the Atlantic Ocean has weakened due to warming (likewise, the Oyashio Current in the Pacific Ocean is weakening as well). The overall effect of all of these things for the Atlantic is the perturbation of the North Atlantic Oscillation--basically, the weather stream in the Atlantic. It's utterly SNAFU and to be quite honest, what is happening scares the devil out of me if it turns out to be relatively permanent.
Whether it's completely natural or not, I do not know. There's all sorts of things involved with weather/climate generation on the planet; ergo, I don't think it's just one thing but most of it seems to relate to a weakened polar vortex and warming oceans. Also interesting is that a glance at the glacial vegetation maps from the previous ice age seems to hint at a similar type of weather pattern that we're seeing now in the US with a drier steppe/arid climate on the West Coast (currently in drought) and colder taiga environments East of the Rockies (currently experiencing deep dips of the polar vortex). Pretty coincidental.
www.redorbit.com...
www.noaa.gov...