{"id":162031,"date":"2010-01-10T13:18:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T18:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=4849"},"modified":"2010-01-10T13:18:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T18:18:59","slug":"life-in-the-deep-freeze-by-richard-woods-the-times-updated-with-comments-by-piers-corbyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/162031","title":{"rendered":"Life in the deep freeze by Richard Woods, The Times, UPDATED with comments by Piers Corbyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article Tags: Headline Story<\/a>, Met Office<\/a>, Piers Corbyn<\/a>, UK Winter Forecast 2009\/10<\/a>, Updated<\/a><\/p>\n

Never mind the failed putsch against Gordon Brown and England\u2019s Test match heroics, the matter of the moment is the white stuff. We haven\u2019t had snow all over the country like this for decades. What\u2019s changed and why?<\/p>\n

The first part \u2014 what\u2019s changed \u2014 is relatively straightforward: a freezing draught has started coming in through the UK\u2019s door from the North Pole and Siberia.<\/p>\n

As Robin Thwaites of the Met Office describes it: \u201cWe have a large area of high pressure sitting over Greenland and Iceland and that is a block of cold air. Cold air is very dense and doesn\u2019t like to budge very quickly, so that is acting as a barrier to the normal westerly flow of [milder] weather that we get off the Atlantic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The block has forced our typical weather south: our rain has instead been falling in Spain, which is having an unusually wet winter. \u201cThey\u2019ve had the rain and instead we\u2019ve had winds either from the Arctic or from Siberia via Scandinavia,\u201d said Thwaites.<\/p>\n

Updated below with comments by Piers Corbyn<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSource: timesonline.co.uk<\/p>\n

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