I’m quite unclear about this climate change. Tim Worstall did his demolition job on the Stern Report but still I don’t think this actually put paid to the phenomenon. Trouble is, something unusual occurs and someone steps in and says, ‘Nah, everything is next to normal.’ Case in point:Snow is forecast for parts of Victoria tomorrow, just about two weeks out from the official start of summer. Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Peter Blake said the situation was fairly unusual for this time of year. "It does happen at this time of year, but it's not an everyday occurrence," he said. "It's certainly not the norm."
Fairly unusual? I’d say it’s most unusual coming in to summer. Rain, yes. Sleet, yes. Snow? Since when?
We have certainly had cooler weather after the driest winter and spring on record. It is blowing a gale (by Adelaide standards) at the moment and we had a fantastic thunderstorm over the weekend. Nothing too unusual except for the lack of significant rain over an extended period.
ReplyDeleteWeather update. It certainly did storm today with snow down to about 600 metres in Victoria and snow in Canberra and parts of New South Wales. Apparently all the cold weather was sucked up from Antartica by an unusual combination of factors. Not necessarily related to global warming.
ReplyDelete...Not necessarily related to global warming...
ReplyDeleteOf course not, Colin.