Global Warming Continues
Warm top... The warmest winter in Helsinki since records started in 1900...
has left the capital without snow and the Gulf of Finland, from Helsinki to Tallinn in the south, is almost completely ice-free this year.
Temperatures above the Arctic Circle have risen at about twice the rate of the global average in the past three decades.
Arctic sea ice shrank to the smallest area on record last summer, covering 22% less than the previous low in September 2005.
Cold bottom... Sydney residents and tourists are cursing La Nina...
as the harbor city says goodbye to the summer that wasn't. Dam levels rose to 64.4% at the end of February from 37.1% a year ago.
The La Nina weather pattern is delivering rain to farmers after the worst drought in a century.
After four years of water restrictions, Sydney saw about 50% more rain than usual this summer.
No day topped 31 degrees celsius (88 degrees fahrenheit) for the first time since 1956.
Average daily sunshine totaled 6.7 hours, an hour less than normal and the lowest since 1991-92.
The average maximum temperature was 25.2, the coolest since 1996-97.
The Nattering One muses... La Nina, which means "little girl" in Spanish, is created by the cooling of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean.
It's the opposite of El Nino, or "little boy" or warming of the Ocean, which can cause drought.
Why would the Ocean water be cooling? Because the ice caps are still melting as witnessed by the Warm Top in Finland.
Confirmation... Colder water, more storms, more rain, witnessed by the cold bottom in Australia and the rains which ended their drought.
Anymore question as to global warming effects?
has left the capital without snow and the Gulf of Finland, from Helsinki to Tallinn in the south, is almost completely ice-free this year.
Temperatures above the Arctic Circle have risen at about twice the rate of the global average in the past three decades.
Arctic sea ice shrank to the smallest area on record last summer, covering 22% less than the previous low in September 2005.
Cold bottom... Sydney residents and tourists are cursing La Nina...
as the harbor city says goodbye to the summer that wasn't. Dam levels rose to 64.4% at the end of February from 37.1% a year ago.
The La Nina weather pattern is delivering rain to farmers after the worst drought in a century.
After four years of water restrictions, Sydney saw about 50% more rain than usual this summer.
No day topped 31 degrees celsius (88 degrees fahrenheit) for the first time since 1956.
Average daily sunshine totaled 6.7 hours, an hour less than normal and the lowest since 1991-92.
The average maximum temperature was 25.2, the coolest since 1996-97.
The Nattering One muses... La Nina, which means "little girl" in Spanish, is created by the cooling of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean.
It's the opposite of El Nino, or "little boy" or warming of the Ocean, which can cause drought.
Why would the Ocean water be cooling? Because the ice caps are still melting as witnessed by the Warm Top in Finland.
Confirmation... Colder water, more storms, more rain, witnessed by the cold bottom in Australia and the rains which ended their drought.
Anymore question as to global warming effects?
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