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[Nickbat]

Just watched the lead item on the BBC six o'clock news.

Reporter says the reason why we have had all this rain is because the "Gulf Stream has shifted South".

 

What a twonk. And to think we pay a licence fee for this. 

[Varche]

And there was me thinking they had moved the Gulf Stream to get the rain out of the way before the Olympics and the BBQ summer.

[STMO123]

Now if we could just get it to shift down as far as, say, Africa, that would solve a lot of problems.

[Nickbat]

If anyone doesn't understand the point of my original post, it is the jet stream that is taking a more Southerly route (high altitude winds that oscillate all year round, but are generally a bit further North in the summer months) - NOT the Gulf Stream!!

[STMO123]

We knew that Nick ......honest 

[Richie London]

We knew that Nick ......honest 

must be grim up north with all this rain Steve

[Dishevelled Den]

Just watched the lead item on the BBC six o'clock news.

Reporter says the reason why we have had all this rain is because the "Gulf Stream has shifted South".

 

What a twonk. And to think we pay a licence fee for this. 

Aah but Nick - you haven't taken into account the very real effects of Global Warming given how these phenomena have now merged as a result of it - the Gulf Stream and the Jet Stream do indeed have a symbiotic atmospheric relationship.


clicky for the piccy

[STMO123]

We knew that Nick ......honest 

must be grim up north with all this rain Steve

Don't need rain, it's grim anyway 

[Andy H]

If anyone doesn't understand the point of my original post, it is the jet stream that is taking a more Southerly route (high altitude winds that oscillate all year round, but are generally a bit further North in the summer months) - NOT the Gulf Stream!!

I thought the jetstream was the 200mph wind high in the atmosphere that aeroplanes whiz around in and the gulf stream is the ocean current that starts in the gulf of Mexico and sends warm water across the Atlantic to keep as warm and wet down here in Cornwall

http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/impact/gulf_stream.shtml
*edit* just reread your post, I agree that the jetstream is the high level airstream but I thought the gulf stream was more significant for the climate

[Nickbat]

If anyone doesn't understand the point of my original post, it is the jet stream that is taking a more Southerly route (high altitude winds that oscillate all year round, but are generally a bit further North in the summer months) - NOT the Gulf Stream!!

I thought the jetstream was the 200mph wind high in the atmosphere that aeroplanes whiz around in and the gulf stream is the ocean current that starts in the gulf of Mexico and sends warm water across the Atlantic to keep as warm and wet down here in Cornwall

http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/impact/gulf_stream.shtml
*edit* just reread your post, I agree that the jetstream is the high level airstream but I thought the gulf stream was more significant for the climate

The Gulf Stream doesn't move to any great degree. If it did, we'd be in trouble. 

The jet stream moves poleward and vice versa according to the seasons and dictates the path of anticyclones across the Atlantic. However, it is not a straight band of wind - it oscillates. It is more common for Atlantic lows to track across Scotland and further North at this time of year, though it is not uncommon for the jet to throw lows across a more Southern trajectory. Some climatologists belive the jet stream is largely influenced by solar activity (which is at a cyclical low level at the moment).     

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

We knew that Nick ......honest 

must be grim up north with all this rain Steve

Don't need rain, it's grim anyway

Surely not. I've heard that Wakefield is very similar to Rome and Milan........what with all the cultured people who live there.