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[Closed] What are the real, meteorlogical chances of a prolonged hot summer?

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Just asking, yes really?


 
Posted : 21/01/2013 10:24 am
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How many prolonged hot summers can you remember? Divide that by the number of bad summers you remember then half it again for things always seeming to be better when you were younger. Then add six to build your hopes up so they can be dashed later


 
Posted : 21/01/2013 10:28 am
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you've got more chance of picking the right lottery numbers.

twice.


 
Posted : 21/01/2013 10:33 am
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1976


 
Posted : 21/01/2013 10:39 am
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3 rubbish years just gone by, so surely we're due a decent one?
Our Hot Air Ballooning business flew 122 times in 2007, but only 47 times last year... It would be nice to think that we could have a decent one.


 
Posted : 21/01/2013 10:43 am
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1976, 1995, 2003, 2006.

About once every 9 or 10 years 😕

Mind you, a lot also depends where you live in the country.


 
Posted : 21/01/2013 10:57 am
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Not looking good then is it? Sigh....


 
Posted : 21/01/2013 11:18 am
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Could start a rumour that there's so much water around there won't be any droughts for five years... 😀


 
Posted : 21/01/2013 12:58 pm
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Don't be silly, they haven't plugged the leaks yet.


 
Posted : 21/01/2013 1:09 pm
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Southern Water are claiming that their supplies are 'nearly topped up'.

Guess what will happen now?


 
Posted : 21/01/2013 1:32 pm
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I have a feeling in my waters that we'll have a corking hot summer this year.

Mark my words.

You heard it here first.

I base my scientific analysis on nothing more than my finger nails are growing at an extraordinary rate.


 
Posted : 21/01/2013 1:36 pm
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Late last year I heard that North Atlantic sea surface temperatures corresponded with wet summers. Warmer water has more evaporation and what goes up must come down. Usually over us. Hence global warming means we're getting less and less likely to have a good summer.


 
Posted : 21/01/2013 1:39 pm
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I predict a warm May, followed by 2 months of monsoonesq rain, followed by a 2 week pleasant spell in August.

By the end of July you will be used to the weatherman saying 'showers' 58 times per report.


 
Posted : 21/01/2013 1:45 pm
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The residents of Lochaber will tell you they've just had one.


 
Posted : 21/01/2013 1:55 pm
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Posted : 21/01/2013 2:00 pm
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Metcheck have a nice page on weather singularities - not a forecast as such, just vague trends which tend to take place: http://www.metcheck.com/UK/singularities.asp


 
Posted : 21/01/2013 2:01 pm
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chances of a warm dry summer on a small, slightly hilly island at the eastern edge of a large ocean where the prevailing weather systems tend to travel from west to east? that'll be huge then


 
Posted : 21/01/2013 2:12 pm
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sparkyspice

Our Hot Air Ballooning business flew 122 times in 2007, but only 47 times last year...

Have you considered branching in to Cold Air Ballooning instead? Surely that'll have more opportunities to fly?? 😉


 
Posted : 21/01/2013 2:59 pm
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Probablly pretty likely if you want to join me here in New Mexico, USA---chances are you would have dry trails most of the time as well (less than 4 inches of rain in 2012).


 
Posted : 21/01/2013 3:03 pm