Climate Change Part 5 (From Worcester News)

Climate Change Part 5

11:53am Monday 15th March 2010 in

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THE climate is a vast and complex machine which can change dramatically over a short period of time. Mother Nature swings from one side of the pendulum to the other, balancing her books.

Just when experts thought they knew all about our unpredictable climate, they had to bow down and accept that the predicting of global weather patterns, especially in a small country as Britain is extremely fickle and very hard to keep up with, as the unpredictable powers of nature unleashes it's forces upon us all, with very little man can do to combat those huge surges of energy.

So, it is very wise for the experts to drop long range seasonal forecasting and admit that they are merely no go areas, even the monthly predictions which they are about to indulge in again are very unpredictable. Sometimes even a few days ahead can be incorrect as the weather systems and airmasses battle it out.

Over the past decay or two we have witnessed all types of weather patterns across our globe, winters became milder with little frost and snow in Britain, indeed the young had never witnessed snow. Then out of the blue, after the prediction of a mild winter for last year and again this winter we were plunged into complete chaos as we all battled it out against these natural forces. Last summer was predicted to be a barbecue summer, again it was a washout. By July the experts changed the forecast stating August would remain cool and wet, that superseded forecast only to be followed by a better month, in fact August turned out to be the best month of the summer.

Now we are coming out of one of the coldest winters in 31 years, it will be interested to see what Mother Nature has in store for us all, rather than the experts trying to predict which way it will move, lets wait and see.

Next: Climate Change Part 6

Glossary: Waterspout: A column of rapidly spiralling air that forms over warm, usually shallow water in seas or large lakes.

Weather for coming week Monday 15th March-Friday 19th March

High pressure moving from the west to the east south-east bringing in warmer sunny conditions Monday and Tuesday, cloudy and dry but mild Wednesday. Low pressure from off the Atlantic bringing wind and rain through Thursday and Friday.

Maximum temperature 13-15c 55-59f.

Minimum temperature 6-8c 43-46f.

Last Week's Observations (Monday-Sunday)

Highest day temperature.........14.2c on Sunday 14th March

Lowest night temperature.........Minus 3.1c Wednesday 10th March

Wettest day................................No rainfall logged