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That's easy enough to do. Whoever's running the show can tweak the temperatures based on local knowledge or conflicting information and they'll have just caught the 3 or 2 while doing that.

Bet a phone number the temp tweaker knows very well contains 232.

Sput wrote:That's easy enough to do. Whoever's running the show can tweak the temperatures based on local knowledge or conflicting information and they'll have just caught the 3 or 2 while doing that.

I wasn't aware this was common practice. Does it not undermine the whole premise of the "we have lots of shiny pooters crunching the data and building these maps so that no mere mortal needs to try interpret it" (not that I'm trying to suggest this is actually the best practice at all - but it seemed to be the foundation of their idea that finally nations and regions/online/red button etc. might be saying the same thing for once).

As an aside, I noticed a similar behaviour this morning on that silly weather nonsense I farted out a while back. How fun.

A bit wet and blustery tonight innit. This global warming lark isn't very warm. Summers were much warmer and winters more wintery when we were pumping noxious gasses into the atmosphere. Mind you we might not be here to see next summer. Our universe could disappear after Wednesday, due to a man made black hole.

I love you all! * air kisses*

For reasons too dull to explain, you're at cdd levels of wrongness lorns

Oh yeah if i'm so wrong and they think its so so safe why have they buried it 300ft under the french border?


Oh i geddit it now. Kill the french first.

I'm not wrong about it being wet and windy though.

We're in a slighly unusually long period of there being no sunspots. It's solar minimum, but that is lasting longer than was expected. It could mean nothing, but on the other hand if it continues for a substantially longer period it would be scientifically interesting and have implications for the climate.

There was a period of 75 years in the 17/18th century when there were hardly any sunspots. This coincided with very cold winters and it became known as "the little ice age".

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Huh, interesting... sure it isn't anthropogenic global cooling?

A cold winter would be fine by me.

I'm really bored of the current mild and damp winters we keep getting. Frost in the autumn, snow in the winter. Like it should be.