It Continues

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The pundits are scurrying around the TV studios to assure us that present conditions in no way challenge their theories of global warming. I don't believe them.
 
Yesterday temperatures in parts of Britain dropped to within a degree or two of the temperature in Antarctica.

We had to go shopping yesterday or we and the in-laws would have run out of essential supplies- which In my father-in-law's case means Muller fruit corners. The car was nestled into a sort of a bunker outside the house- and I had to dig it out. Then, when we came home at the end of the afternoon, I had to dig it back in again. The roads round town are dodgy and they haven't gritted the sidestreets since the last fall of snow. They haven't collected the rubbish either. We didn't risk driving down Dot and Eric's street. Ailz parked at the top of it and I carried their groceries the final quarter mile on foot.

I'd been warned we might find the supermarket shelves stripped back to the bare metal. This wasn't the case. Sainsbury's Oldham  had all the essentials. A cheery,  "look at us surviving the blitz" spirit was in evidence. A sales assistant we know by sight proudly told us about her walk to work. Christmas puddings were on sale at 75% off- and I treated us to what would have otherwise been a very expensive one. It gave me vivid dreams. 

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Yes, that's it exactly. The warm current has done a bit of a wobble and got sucked up into another current that has taken it further north than normal. I think this is what happened during the winter of 1963 when we had a big freeze. As far as I know, it should wobble back again during the summer. It's done it before because there was a mini-warm period in Greenland some hundreds of years ago when the Vikings managed to settle there for a while. I don't know whether anyone's looked to see if Britain had particularly cold winters at that time.

Global warming is actually a deceptive name. Climate turbulence is probably a better description of what's going on. As the planet warms, there is more change and more extremes. My husband has local date going back decades that clearly shows that the wet period has definitely moved by a few months.