UK Meteorologists Try to Figure Out Weather
Jun 19, 2013 6:18:38 GMT -5
Post by popcorn on Jun 19, 2013 6:18:38 GMT -5
Britain’s freezing, rainy weather is now so awful that U.K. meteorologists are meeting to figure it out 
Come rain, wind or sunshine, weather has long been one of Britain’s main topics of conversation. Now it has also become a mystery.
Meteorologists and climate scientists are meeting Tuesday to discuss why this traditionally temperate country has recently experienced icy winters, washed-out summers and the coldest spring in a half-century.
Scientist Stephen Belcher, who is chairing the workshop organized by Britain’s weather-forecasting agency, the Met Office, said its goal is to look at whether the weird weather is the result of “a run of natural variability,” or the product of human-driven climate change.
He said one theory is that there is a link between declining Arctic sea ice and the European climate, “but exactly how this process might work, and how important it may be among a host of other factors, remains unclear.”
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Come rain, wind or sunshine, weather has long been one of Britain’s main topics of conversation. Now it has also become a mystery.
Meteorologists and climate scientists are meeting Tuesday to discuss why this traditionally temperate country has recently experienced icy winters, washed-out summers and the coldest spring in a half-century.
Scientist Stephen Belcher, who is chairing the workshop organized by Britain’s weather-forecasting agency, the Met Office, said its goal is to look at whether the weird weather is the result of “a run of natural variability,” or the product of human-driven climate change.
He said one theory is that there is a link between declining Arctic sea ice and the European climate, “but exactly how this process might work, and how important it may be among a host of other factors, remains unclear.”
read more:
news.nationalpost.com/2013/06/18/britains-freezing-rainy-weather-is-now-so-awful-that-u-k-meteorologists-are-meeting-to-figure-it-out/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NPWorld+%28National+Post+-+World%29