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Information => Outdoor News and Events => Topic started by: admin on October 29, 2014
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Scientists have re-issued stark warnings ahead of what some have claimed is set to be the coldest winter for a century.
They said a lengthy spell of extreme and potentially devastating weather is just around the corner partly thanks to the unusually mild autumn.
Looking at air flow in the upper atmosphere to produce an index called the October Pattern Index (OPI ) experts have said everything points towards a negative Arctic Oscillation this winter.
The resulting weak jet stream, which usually holds the cold at bay over the North Pole, will give way to a blast of freezing air which will sweep across the UK.
Experts expect this by the middle of November with snowstorms and numbing Arctic gales set to wreak havoc at airports and on the country’s transport systems.
The OPI was devised by Italian scientists Riccardo Valente and Professor Judah Cohen with this year’s readings dangerously similar to those taken during the catastrophic winter of 2009/10 - the coldest in 31 years.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/528643/Winter-2014-weather-warning-snow-arctic-freezing-temperatures-forecast
Perhaps a little hyperbole and sensationalism but you never know, we might get some fun in the snow this year.
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Here's hoping......
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Go to the UK this winter for camping they said, it will be mild they said... :D
Having spent the 2009/10 winter in Aberdeen and Edinborough for Hogmanay I can say it wasn't so bad back then and hopefully won't be this winter.