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Phantom ... rest easy:

Is our Sun falling silent?

"I've been a solar physicist for 30 years, and I've never seen anything quite like this," says Richard Harrison, head of space physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.
He shows me recent footage captured by spacecraft that have their sights trained on our star. The Sun is revealed in exquisite detail, but its face is strangely featureless.
"If you want to go back to see when the Sun was this inactive... you've got to go back about 100 years," he says.
This solar lull is baffling scientists, because right now the Sun should be awash with activity.
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More here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25743806
 
dbeyat45 said:
The alarmist (and that includes the BOM) will take the highest reading every time. 40.6C appears to be the BOM's highest reading but ..... is that really hot for Albury?
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No not really but high 30's t 40's for a week is.Usually get a break.I see we are in for cooler weather now :D
At least it has been a clear heat witth low / reasonable humidityAt least our evap cooler works witout getting wet tiles
 
Here you go, Old Hipster. This will translate Celsius to Fahrenheit

https://www.google.com.au/search?hl...8.0.278.770.2-3.3.0...0.0...1ac.1.NfwlFjn_6vc

40.6C is 105F.

And Donander, you know perfectly well that it is not the temperature on any particular day that tells us anything. It is the number of hot days in a row and in a full year that points to change, or not. i.e. How long are the heat waves, and are they becoming more frequent as well as more intense.
 
Phantom said:
It's not global warming Just sun is getting hotter
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Maybe but not likely Phantom; the Sun is living in interesting times. Hang in there and cooler weather may be just around the corner (speaking in geologic time, that is).

Even the global warming activists in the BBC are starting to hedge their bets (never thought I'd see that):

Has the Sun gone to sleep?

17 January 2014 Last updated at 05:57 GMT

Scientists are saying that the Sun is in a phase of "solar lull" - meaning that it has fallen asleep - and it is baffling them.
History suggests that periods of unusual "solar lull" coincide with bitterly cold winters.

Rebecca Morelle reports for BBC Newsnight on the effect this inactivity could have on our current climate, and what the implications might be for global warming.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25771510
 
Warrigal said:
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And Donander, you know perfectly well that it is not the temperature on any particular day that tells us anything. It is the number of hot days in a row and in a full year that points to change, or not. i.e. How long are the heat waves, and are they becoming more frequent as well as more intense.
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No Warrigal. I don't know that. Neither do you.

I have downloaded the BOM's figures for Melbourne (1855-present).

The data (.CSV file) starts recording in 1855 but the text file (IDCJAC0010_086071_1800_Note.txt) included in the download says:
** Station Details **

Bureau of Meteorology station number: 86071
Station name: MELBOURNE REGIONAL OFFICE
Year site opened: 1908
Year site closed:
Latitude (decimal degrees, south negative): -37.81
Longitude (decimal degrees, east positive): 144.97
Height of station above mean sea level (metres): 31
State: VIC
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I've read that Australian climate records are in a bad way ..... nothing there to alter my opinion. Anyway, what I wanted to post is the graph I created from the Melbourne data (max temps):

Melbourne_1855-Present.JPG


... from this location: Melbourne BOM Regional Office, slap bang in the CBD of a city of more than four million people!

Maybe a degree almost 160 years with the UHI factor? UHI affects all cities to some degree.

Speaking of UHI, some years ago, I saved this URL (UHI) from Melbourne University. It no longer works, probably because it didn't fit the warming narrative ...... sigh.

To complete the picture (somewhat), I have re-graphed the Cape Otway Lighthouse data with the latest data available from the BOM:

CapeOtwayLighthouse_DailyMax_1864-16Jan2014.JPG


As soon as you depart the cities, the picture changes ... we're being sold a pup.
 
Warrigal said:
Here you go, Old Hipster. This will translate Celsius to Fahrenheit

https://www.google.com.au/search?hl...8.0.278.770.2-3.3.0...0.0...1ac.1.NfwlFjn_6vc

40.6C is 105F.

And Donander, you know perfectly well that it is not the temperature on any particular day that tells us anything. It is the number of hot days in a row and in a full year that points to change, or not. i.e. How long are the heat waves, and are they becoming more frequent as well as more intense.
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That is normal temps for Fresno in the summer...2 or even more months in a row!
 
42 Fahrenheit would be welcome here. We probably won't get there today. Maybe tomorrow.

Evaporative coolers are great if you live in a dry climate. In West Texas/southeastern New Mexico we called them "swamp" coolers:D
 
Getting colder here, frost last night, and some fog; but clearing nicely. Sun may come out...
 
Diwundrin said:
Has the rain and flooding eased off over in the UK?
We've all gone quiet so it must have cooled down here.
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Clearing up has started, but there is still an awful lot of standing water, and the rivers are very high...
We get live tennis and cricket, (though we don't talk about that;) so we have an idea about what is going on!
 
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