 Poster: A snowHead
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According to NASA via this PisteHors article ...
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"Barring a major incident (volcanic eruption, nuclear war, someone leaving the door open on one of those American style fridges) climatologists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies are warning that 2005 will be the hottest year on record. Average temperatures taken from 7,200 weather stations around the world already make this year 0.4°C warmer than 1998, the previous hottest year." |
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Interestingly the spring of 1999 was if I recall correctly the last time much of the alps got stupidly large amounts of snow, I recall that being the year Wengen got 1.5M of snow in less than a week, with all the disasterous things that happened, I wonder if there is any link in the weather patterns 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Hmm. Misleading PisteHors headline, I think - bearing in mind that temperatures are approaching those of 130,000 years ago. In terms of our lifetimes (even mine  ) things look hotter than they have ever been, though.
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Nick, be fair!
The actual pistehors headline includes the words "set to be". The use of the word "record" implies that the projection is made on the basis of actual meteorological records only - i.e. temperature readings over (I'd imagine) about 100-150 years.
It's only mid-October, which is why the words "set to be" are important. I guess if an unusually cold November and December sets in, 2005 won't be the hottest year on record.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Gawd, here we go again. Can I be bothered? Not really.
But I would point out DG that the title I used for this thread was, quote, "according to NASA" - referring to the line "Studies are warning that 2005 will be the hottest year on record" (note will be, not "set to be").
Anyway, the "set to be" factor is - or should be - obvious to anyone who's checked out his calendar recently. It's October 2005, DG.
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Still tee shirt weather in the North East, oh yes, we never wear costs anyway, however cold!
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| Gawd, here we go again. Can I be bothered? Not really.................. |
Look at my face, look at my face, does it look bothered, cause im not bothered, am I bothered, am I bothered though? 
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Nick Zotov,
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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or someone leaving the door open on one of those American style fridges)
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I did like that bit.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I know that this is digressing slightly, but is it true that, in the UK, 1976 was the hottest summer on record. I can't remember as I was only 6 years old.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Today was 16th October and it was the most fabulous day here in the North East. Temp must have reached 20+c. I can hardly remember a hard frost from January to April. Gotta be up there.
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There's a good article in The Denver Post today on the impact of global warming on skiing in the US - and Andermatt in Switzerland (citing the resort's glacier insulation measures this summer):
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_3120823
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You know it makes sense.
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jb1970, I don't know about the hottest summer on record but I can remember it was one of those summers like you get on holiday where you just know the weather tomorrow and the next week and the week after is going to be hot and sunny. I don't remember the temps being exceedingly high like the record-breaking temps we have had fairly recently but it was hot over a long period of time. (I was a kid at the time, honest!  )
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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jb1970, could be. I was doing my first A levels in Brighton that year, and I do remember that it was absolute hell trying to concentrate on Physics and Biology when I would much rather have been down at the water cooling off, or at the Hungry Years doing other things It was definitely the hottest summer that I ever encountered in Britain, but then again, I have not spent much time in Britain since then so may not be the best person to comment.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| (... or someone leaving the door open on one of those American style fridges) |
I detect an example of the Davidof sense of humour, rather than the thinking of a NASA scientist, here. I least, I hope so!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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paulhothersall, great movie! Austria and southern Germany do pretty well for snow in that!
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