Long term weather predictions

[HeyWayne]

Saw on the news this morning that they're predicting this summer to be "typically" British, and that we will not have the amount of rain we had last year. More a case of sunshine and showers.

Let's see eh?

[Tracey]

I heard on the radio that the weather this year is going to be cooler due to La Niña.

[Two_Sheds]

The Times is reporting a cool & cloudy summer holidays, with the promise of an Indian Summer in September.

[Snadger]

The Times is reporting a cool & cloudy summer holidays, with the promise of an Indian Summer in September.

Well they were hardly going to say a cool and cloudy summer with even more crap to follow were they?
I'm not a weather man, but I could guess that settled weather would follow unsettled!

[Two_Sheds]

yeah, none taken like.

[Snadger]

yeah, none taken like.

Sorry TS.......just re-read the thread and my reply does sound a tad bombastic and possibly offensive!

I just have a chip on my shoulder about meteorologists who are paid good money to be for the most part, poor guessers!

[Gwyndy]

The only thing that the weather forecasters can tell us with any accuracy is what it did yesterday!! (And they sometimes get that wrong.)

[di]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm sure I can remember having an obscenely hot summer a couple of years ago & being promised by the doom & gloom guys that this was effect of global warming & things were if anything going to get hotter?!should I start using plastic carrier bags again?!

[lynda66]

i want to know, why, if' we are getting global warming, why i remember having hot summers when a kid, lots of sunburn and trips to the beach, and getting the paddling pool out in the garden ..... but for the last few years have hardly even got a tan, and every year on my birthday in august the traditional bbq has been held under a gazebo to stop it being totally rained off ..... global cooling more like. i was really hoping all this supposed global warming was going to make summers like they used to be

[Kristen]

That's why the pundits have renamed it from "global warming" to "climate change"

Look out for further renaming to "ice age" or "underwater age" anytime soon ...

[marigold007]

Looks like they were using old models for this prediction. There's a big right wing conspiracy to lead us all into a fog of disinformation. I wonder though, after watching Gardeners World on Climate Change using the iplayer, how can they predict that we will soon be able to grow Mediterranean type plants based on a rise in temperatures? No matter how hot or wet it gets in either season, England will never move closer to the equator! Surely the amount of sunlight is a factor in whether a plant will adapt?! Anybody know??

[Two_Sheds]

Nature is adapting all the time: for example, we're seeing those big Hornet Mimic Hoverflies now, which used to be rare in UK. Ditto Ring Necked Parakeets. That's just 2 examples.
Animals and even plants will migrate ... we don't need to move nearer the equator to see our landscape change.

[marigold007]

But.... But.... :-)

Many plants and animals are perfectly adapted to certain weather patterns. I have no doubt that some die-hard species will adapt and indeed we might even see rapid speciation like Darwins finches, but evolution works on a timescale of thousands and even millions of years, not a hundred.

I think there's a reason why French wine is the best in the world. This may be The End of the Vine As We Know It.

[cupcake]

In todays paper it says we are going to get a good summer in 2009! You saw it here first!

[ailsasyl]

here's hoping! I got lots of work to do in the garden
Evolution- what goes around comes around - always something new being discovered, makes life intersting