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Yearly Archives: 2013

Boreal winter 2013: La Niña cold SST for NE Pacific & weakening solar max allow for negative Arctic Oscillation, ambivalent NAO – high pressure Siberia, cold air for Northern Europe & NE US

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Rolf Schuttenhelm
Posted in Climate Forecasts | Tagged America, climate forecast, Europe, La Niña, NOAA, seasonal forecasts, solar activity, sunspots, winter, winter forecast

Picture of the day: flower meadow in Californian plant biodiversity hotspot

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Rolf Schuttenhelm
Posted in Bits of Biodiversity | Tagged climate change, evolution, mountains, picture of the day, plant species, plants, species migration, University of California Santa Cruz

Extreme heat wave Australia adds new colour to weather chart – forecast up to 54 degrees Celsius!

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

As red tones cannot get much darker when you approach black, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology had to resort to introducing new colours on their weather forecast maps for next week, when inland temperatures in South Australia can locally reach … Continue reading →

Posted in Bits of Climate, Climate Forecasts | Tagged Australia, drought, El Niño, extreme weather, heat, heat waves, seasonal forecasts, summer forecast, weather, wildfires
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