Climate Change Part 1 (From Worcester News)

Climate Change Part 1

12:46pm Tuesday 12th January 2010 in News By Paul Damari

THE worlds climate continues to swing from warm to cold, wet to dry through thousands and millions of years. Taking a glance back through the climatic records we can pick out times of warming, with sudden changes to colder conditions over a period of just a decade or two. This indicates that man made influences are in play, but we must also take natural variations in our climate into account as well.

We have known that warm spells with rising temperatures, can be followed by a cluster of much colder, snowy winters with icy blasts in some parts of the world, whilst other locations in the world at the same time experiences warmer than average temperatures.

So over the coming weeks, I shall look at these natural variations in our climate and also changes in our climate caused by man. The overall trend is for rising temperatures worldwide, but we must understand that although the trend is upward, blips can occur within the weather machine with conditions turning colder or wetter, the past several summers and the past two winters has shown these variations in all it's glory.

Next Week: Climate Change Part 2

Glossary: Blizzard: A wind storm in which large amounts of snow are blown into the air from the surface and carried at high speed.

Weather for coming week Monday 11th January-Friday 15th January

The cold weather will continue with the risk of snow in places at times. Low pressure moving into the south-west of the UK colliding into the cold air across Britain bringing some heavy snow to some parts later Tuesday, Tuesday Evening and Night into Wednesday.

Icy conditions on road and underfoot. Drier Thursday and Friday with cloud, a few wintry showers and slight overnight frost.

Maximum temperature.......1-4c
Minimum temperature........Minus 1c to Plus 1c

Last Week's Observations

Highest day temperature..........2.2c on Thursday 7th January and on Sunday 10th January

Lowest night temperature.........Minus 10.6c on Sunday 10th January

Wettest Day...............................7.8 mm on Tuesday 5th January