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WEATHER from frontpage
to official weather forecasts made earlier
in the year-this winter should be warm
and dry. It’s anything but. Ice and snow
cover vast parts of both Europe and North
America, in one of the coldest Decembers
in history.”
The “Daily Star” in the U.K. reports
that there the average temperature since
December 1, 2010 makes it the second
coldest December
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since records
began being kept
in 1659. Some
experts believe
that the
temperatures that
will be
experienced in
January and February may be so low that
the U.K. will experience its coldest winter
in the last 1,000 years.
On December 31, 2010, Las Vegas
recorded the coldest high temperature ever
recorded there. The 38 degree high was
well below the previous high on this day
of 45 degrees.
Below the equator in Australia
Christmas is in the summer, but rather than
basking in the early summer sun, this
year at Christmas time Aussies in New
South Wales and Victoria were blanketed
with up to four inches of snow.
In several cities in South Florida in
2010, December was the coldest
December ever recorded. On June 20,
2010 during Australia’s winter, Sydney
experienced its coldest June morning since
1983.
The Sun’s atmosphere is also behaving
unusually. Compared to the earth’s
atmosphere, the sun’s is hell. The sun’s
atmosphere consists of three regions, one
of which, the photosphere, is where most
of our visible light comes from.
NASA reports that, although continuous
daily observations of sunspots did not
begin until 1849, earlier observations have
been used to extend the records back to
1610. Sunspots
... we now “see that solar
storms can be global events,
playing out on scales we
scarcely imagined before”.
first observed in
1610 are dark
patches on the
surface of the
sun’s •
photosphere.
For most of the
time during the
past two years there have been no
sunspots. This is their most prolonged
absence in nearly 100 years. Centuries of
observation of the sun have revealed to
scientists that the number of sunspots ebb
and flow in cycles lasting about 11 years.
Correlations between sunspots and the
earth’s climate have been noticed.
Today, satellites containing telescopes
enable us to know far more about the sun’s
activity than we did in the past. On August
1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun
erupted. According to Karel Schrijver of
Lockheed Martin’s Solar and Astrophysics
Lab in Palo Alto, California, we now “see
that solar storms can be global events,
playing out on scales we scarcely
imagined before”.
David Hathaway, a physicist at NASA’s
Marshall Space Flight Center in
Huntsville, Alabama says of the sun’s
recent behavior that “This is solar behavior
we haven’t seen in living memory”.
Hathaway believes that the movement at
record-high speeds of the top of the
gigantic conveyor belt of plasma moving
inside the sun may be the reason why there
have been so few sunspots recently. He
says that “The high speed of the conveyor
belt challenges existing models of the
solar cycle and it has forced us back to the
drawing board for new ideas.”
In September 2010, the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science reported that:
“Scientists studying sunspots for the
past 2 decades have concluded that the
magnetic field that triggers their formation
has been steadily declining. If the current
trend continues, by 2016 the sun’s face
may become spotless and remain that way
for decades - a phenomenon that in the
17th century coincided with a prolonged
period of cooling on Earth.”
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