What is your weather like ... today

[j.w]

Raining and 44f

 

[callingcolleen1]

Snowed more last night currently -8 Celsius. Weather is very strange and breaking 100 year records. Everybody unhappy about weather and complaining all over facebook. .
Australia having all time coldest record ever!
It even snowed in Africa!!!
GloBULL warming experts all hiding and nowwhere to be seen.....

 

[callingcolleen1]

I've seen you post this a few times, and I just wanted to clarify a couple of things. 'Grand solar minimum' means that the sun is less active, and as a result there are fewer sun spots - this happens roughly every 11 years, and can have a small effect on regional weather. It is nothing to do with the Earth's orbit of the sun - which as you rightly say is elliptical. The earth is moving away from the sun, but it's at such a slow rate (roughly one micrometer per year) that it doesn't have any noticeable effect

I think your way underestimating this Grand Solar effect and combine that with earth moving away from sun and reports from around the world are smashing 100 + year old records.....

 

[Gemma]

Same weather as most of you...snow, cold, wind....

 

[MitchM]

I don't feel so alone this spring.

 

[Becky]

I think your way underestimating this Grand Solar effect and combine that with earth moving away from sun and reports from around the world are smashing 100 + year old records.....

I have made no assumptions, my statement was based on the laws of physics. Let's look at things logically: The Earth has an elliptical orbit of the sun, and there is a difference of around 5 million km (3 million miles) between Earth's closest point to the sun (in January) and its furthest (in July). If the Earth moving a fraction of a millimeter away from the sun had any noticeable effect, then the elliptical orbit would wreak havoc every 6 months.

If you are interested in learning more about the activity levels of the sun, then NASA has an article about solar cycles here: https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/news-articles/solar-minimum-is-coming

Here you can see the average level of solar activity compared with the average temperature on Earth:

Source: NOAA

As you can see, the fluctuations in solar activity (which are constant over time, every 11 years) do not correlate with the global surface temperature (which is increasing).

I find it all fascinating. I need to get a solar filter for my telescope

 

[Angel]

 

[j.w]

Raining and big storm on the way for tomorrow

 

[JamieB]

Maybe snow. Still waiting to see, I’ll find out in the morning.

 

[addy1]

snow freezing mix next few days then back to 70

 

[MitchM]

It feels like it's the 97th of January.

More snow coming tonight.

 

[RobAmy]

It feels like it's the 97th of January.

More snow coming tonight.

We had a couple inches yesterday. Crazy weather this year. The plants are trying to grow but it has been tough for them.

 

[Tula]

Woke up to snow ! Good thing our basement waterproofing project was completed yesterday!

 

[JamieB]

We got some snow.

 

[JBtheExplorer]

I see 40's in the forecast next week, which is a pretty big deal! It's currently 29°F.

Average high would be 51°F, so we've still got a ways to go.