Greetings,
UNISYS
With the Met Office announcing 2014: A year of record-breaking temperatures? and the US recovering from their nightmare of a November the temperature in the UK is set to plummet this weekend and I would dare to suggest this will be the beginning of a cruel winter for the Brits as further evidence does suggest there is a large area of the Gulf Stream 2 to 3-deg colder than it should be.
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/view/#SSTA
Every chart is showing the same cold anomaly suggesting the UK and Northern Europe will be in for a shocker this winter and with the waters between Canada and Greenland showing warmer than normal this would also explain the why so much snow fell in the US in November, breaking all previous records…
According to the Rutgers University Global Snow Lab, North America snow cover reached a record extent for mid-November (15.35 million square kilometers), crushing the old record from 1985 by over 2 million square kilometers. Records at Rutgers date to 1966.
Earthwindmap
The Earthwind map shows the cold areas more clearly than the satellite images above, the giant cooler area is growing not only in the North Atlantic but in the Gulf itself, compare the screen grab I took this morning above, with the same screen grab I captured at the beginning of Oct below!
What is intriguing is this huge area of the Gulf Stream is showing a colder than normal sea surface anomaly while most of the rest of the Northern Hemisphere oceans are warmer than normal, I am not an expert by any means so I am quoting NOAA here: Analysis from NOAA satellites shows that sea surface temperatures in September 2014 were well above normal. In fact, 60% of the Northern Hemisphere ocean surface was 0.5°C or more above the 1981-2010 average.
Below are two examples of earlier Gulf Stream temperature anomalies, one showing the affects of colder than normal waters and the other warmer than normal……More Here
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