Stormy Weather II

[Serial_Apologist]

The same today, except sunnier and warmer. Perfect weather.

Monochrome stratocumulus covering the entire sky all day here - like someone got a broad paintbrush and some grey paint, and proceeded to paint long thick parallel strokes from horizon to horizon.

I'd always thought this type of skyscape as typefying British weather, until I saw some film footage taken in Equatorial Africa, and was amazed to see exactly the same monotonousness there.

[vinteuil]

Monochrome stratocumulus covering the entire sky all day here - like someone got a broad paintbrush and some grey paint, and proceeded to paint long thick parallel strokes from horizon to horizon.

I'd always thought this type of skyscape as typefying British weather, until I saw some film footage taken in Equatorial Africa, and was amazed to see exactly the same monotonousness there.

... yes indeed. I spent a year as a VSO in Douala, where it seemed monotonously grey. Details of climate here : the notes on humidity (never less than muggy/usually oppressive/often miserable) I can confirm :

https://weatherspark.com/y/61814/Average-Weather-in-Douala-Cameroon-Year-Round

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[oddoneout]

A glorious day today, ideal for enjoying the volunteer gardening, and so heartening to see the flowers all pinging out and busy with assorted insects, especially after the battering everything had in the recent storms. The bird life was much in evidence as well, much to the delight of visitors, especially when the buzzard family appeared and spent 20 minutes or so drifting in the blue. It's a clear evening with touches of pink as the sun departed and the moon hanging big and bright, shining into my kitchen.

[BBMmk2]

Tell you what, you could’ve fooled me it was the first day of Spring yesterday and today!

[oddoneout]

After a misty start it has remained overcast but brightness in the relevant part of the sky indicates that the cloud isn't very thick, although I rather doubt the sun will actually show its face today. The pesky wood pigeons have decided it's spring and are busy knocking blossom and buds and small twigs off trees as they conduct their weighty courtships.

[Serial_Apologist]

Any evidence for this? Climate scientists have made a good case for global warming being man made, but it's difficult to tie individual events to global warming. A few years ago I was worried by reports that global warming might be slowing down the gulf stream, leading to Siberian winters in the UK, but then scientists reckoned it wasn't:

https://oceanleadership.org/gulf-str...-slowing-down/

I'm not hot on arguing the case for global warming, never having trained in scientific disciplines. I defer to the majority of scientific enquiry and evidence in this area, citing ice cores and so on, aided to a considerable extent by the way in which climate denying bodies (or those minmising the human component in the contribution to the phenomenon) tend to be in favour of oil and coal-supported businesses or funded by them.

But, just supposing that majority could be wrong and that i.e. climate warming exists, but is cyclical, wouldn't more energy-conserving means of energy production seem at worst reasonable from a pollution pov alone, one would have thought?

[oddoneout]

[QUOTE=Serial_Apologist;730620]I'm not hot on arguing the case for global warming, never having trained in scientific disciplines. I defer to the majority of scientific enquiry and evidence in this area, citing ice cores and so on, aided to a considerable extent by the way in which climate denying bodies (or those minmising the human component in the contribution to the phenomenon) tend to be in favour of oil and coal-supported businesses or funded by them.

But, just supposing that majority could be wrong and that i.e. climate warming exists, but is cyclical, wouldn't more energy-conserving means of energy production seem at worst reasonable from a pollution pov alone, one would have thought?[/QUOTE]
There have always been changes in climate over varying periods of time, some quite recent(in the scale of things eg Little Ice Age in the Northern Hemisphere between 17th and 19th centuries) and as the result of various causes. Detailed evidence about how, what and when has mostly been quite recent, as methods of obtaining and analysing evidence were developed, so distinguishing between 'purely' anthropogenic, and underlying 'natural' causes and effects has been open to debate. I would agree that more efficient energy production methods are desirable in their own right - if only to conserve finite resources - but as you say there are vested interests which have over-ruled good sense, and continue to do so.
The irony(and sadness) from my point of view is that the debate about such matters has been in the public domain(ie available to anyone with a mild degree of curiosity and appropriate reading skills) for so long without anything significant happening. Almost 50 years ago we were debating such things in my A level geography class; at that time the phrase was 'greenhouse effect' and the debate was about whether it would lead to a cooling or a warming of the Earth. One view was that energy from the sun would be prevented from reaching the earth's surface so that over time the climate would cool, the opposite view was that heat generated on Earth would be trapped under a blanket of CO2 and temperatures would rise. In both cases it was accepted that burning fossil fuels was a problem.

[BBMmk2]

Hmmm I thought we were going to have a scorcher?

[cloughie]

Beautiful spring morning here - sunshine and a clear blue sky!

[oddoneout]

Overcast and not much likelihood of sun proper apparently, but dry and mild - although the breeze strikes a little chill(but that might be due to being on day2 of a stinking cold)

[BBMmk2]

More of the same today! Gawd! Where’s the sun!

[Petrushka]

Where’s the sun!

Up here and plenty of it! There's a chill breeze too but it's very typical of a day in late March in this part of the world, the sort of day that seems to move from late winter to early spring and back again in an instant.

[eighthobstruction]

....lovely day near skipton....shirt weather [for a while at least]....

[oddoneout]

Sunny here if a bit hazy at times and the breeze is a bit chilly - typical March day really.

[BBMmk2]

I think we may have some today!