http://nzclimatescience.net/images/PDFs/gwhoaxborn.pdf

Definition of a hurricane http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hurricane

Noun
a severe, often destructive storm, esp. a tropical cyclone [Spanish huracán]

It appears you’ve gotten what you paid for in that dictionary. I’m not all that familiar with that storm, but the fronts attached to it, and the latitude, strongly suggest it was an extratropical cyclone. Hurricanes have a warm core from aid descending in the core and are powered by vertical temperature differences. Extratropical cyclones are powered by horizontal temperature differences.

The “eye” of the storm is interesting. Extratropical storms aren’t supposed to to have them, but they show up from time to time on really strong nor’easters in New England. They are the subject of some study, but have not been investigated by hurricane hunter planes. I suspect they may represent a point where the wind is blowing so fast that the center of the storm can’t suck it into the real center. Which is pretty much like a hurricane eye.

Hurricanes transform into extratropical storms as they pass over cooler water or join up with a frontal boundary. When that happens, the wind and rain field spreads out, so comments about the storm being 4X the size of a hurricane also suggest it wasn’t a hurricane. That it had hurricane force winds doesn’t make a it a hurricane.

On the other hand, nor’easters can be quite devastating. My grandparents had an old house on Long Beach Island, NJ that survived several hurricanes in the 1950s but was knocked over in a nor’easter in March 1962. That storm cut the island in three places and it was never quite the same again.

Sorry to be so pedantic, but this is a _science_ blog.

Noun
a severe, often destructive storm, esp. a tropical cyclone [Spanish huracán]

Collins Essential English Dictionary 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 2006

From the report 4 times bigger than a hurricane and recorded wind speeds over 100mph and the words used in the earlier forecast were a bit breezy in the Channel and the Eastern side of the country – you could call that typical British understatement

John Kettley is a weatherman, a weatherman, a weatherman,
John Kettley is a weatherman…
And so is Michael Fish!

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/europe/surface_pressure.html

Looks as if it could be on its way.

If they would stop telling people that it will get warmer and instead giving them the real forcast, the farmers could use other methods and other seeds to get the crops they (and we) need.

If CO2 were scientifically acquited of warming effects and it warms, man-made ozone would be next in line. Next, methane, and so on. If it cools, aerosols will be blamed.

Interesting article… it completly left out the MWP and the LIA. It’s obvious the agenda driven Dragon Lady has her imprint on the government run media.

Jack Koenig, Editor
The Mysterious Climate Project
http://www.climateclinic.com

This could be the start of the “Perfect Storm”, where the globe sees a La Nina, negative NAO and a weakening positive AMO. However, somewhere in the world, there will be an adjustment in the long wave upper wind pattern where the amplitude of a corresponding warm ridge forms to compensate for the formation of deep upper level cold lows (sub-polar vortex). Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi calls this the signalling of teleconnections.

If both NAmerica and Europe suffer through a frigid, wet winter some place will see a comensating warm, dry winter. Guess which areas will get the attention? Austrailia could see a scorchingly hot dry Dec-Feb. Warm artic SSTs could remain bottled up for the next several years. The Alarmists continue thier fixation on polar ice as it is thier only game in town for them.

As a scientist and fellow Devonian, I agree with you entirely. I’m watching the sunspots. Bring back a bit of warmth into our lives after the last couple of dreadful summers. I have a good stock of timber dried and ready for use in my wood-burner. I just hope it doesn’t run out faster than I can cut it and dry it.

Phillip

So has anyone planned for what will happen if we get climate change to cold instead of warming??…. The sun may well be doing something ‘odd’ at this time, and some solar astronomers are starting to make ‘noises’ about it. The sun has gone very ‘quiet’ and quite a few solar astronomers are concerned that the sun may be entering a new ‘low’ period of activity (grand minimum) which may last a long time.
The sun went quiet during the ‘maunder’ solar minimum. This was during a period known as the little Ice age (LIA) starting some 400 years ago tail ending about 1850. (1850 is the year AGW’ers start their warming graphs from ! ) Over the past 10000 years (since the last Ice age proper), there have been many times when the temperature was lower than now and times when it was at least as high if not higher. This was obviously not caused by Co2…( no cars back then). So whatever mechanism caused these climate changes is ‘natural ‘ and so is still there, ‘lurking’ in the background. If this does happen ( and some think it has already started ) It will be a disaster far greater than the worst warming predictions.
The thing is that the ‘sunspots cycles’ fit the observed temperature changes better than Co2 .However even if the mechanism for the correlation linking sunspots and the world climate has not been found . It is evident that there must be one, and the Solar cycle/cosmic rays/cloud cover is the best bet so far. But as I say even if this theory does not pan out THERE has to be a connection waiting to be found.

There were almost no sunspots on the sun between 1650 and 1700 (and very few for hundred years either side). This was the ‘maunder’ minimum. during this time the temperature of the world plummeted. From about 1600 to 1840 sunspot cycles 5 and 6 were also very ‘low’ this was the ‘Dalton’ minimum and again the world temp dropped. Then cycle 20 in the early 1970′s was ‘low’ this corresponds to the 1970′s ‘ice age scare’. The period covered by last few cycles are referred to by astronomers as ‘the modern (temperature) Maximum..(as I say this is by astronomers… not climatologists). And the temp has indeed gone up in the latter 20th century. Sunspot cycle 23 has still not yet ended and shows signs of not doing so until perhaps next year.. and the Worlds temp has INDEED dropped again..the next nearest similar cycle was 200 years ago. IF the Sun is indeed to the main factor in Global warming (and cooling)…and IF we were heading for another cold period then removing Co2 from the atmosphere (at great cost) could therefore make things worse. We can live with warm. …but millions may suffer and die if we get years/decades of extended cold…all forms of transport snowed to a halt, power/gas outages, crop failures, food/water shortages, disease, and maybe war …not good!! ….William Herschel (astronomer) In 1801 noted that when there are few spots on the sun the price of wheat goes up…. Well the price of wheat has gone up..and so has the price of lots of other foods, and there have been food riots in some 25 countries recently. Millions of tons of food have been destroyed by cold/frost… There has been no global warming for almost 10 years….1998 being the most recent warmest year. All this will turn out to be caused by the Sun…the Sun drives the climate as it always has, and the temp. goes up and down…and even some climatologists are now saying we should expect the current cooling to continue for ‘at least’ another 10-30 years…..This does not fit AGW theory . Bring back warm!!!

Its not likely that its the warmest in 1300 years, there are many reports that contradict that,

what is certain is that that it has beens very cold the last 3 million years, it cooled over 10 degrees C and the last million years are the coldest. (15 milion years ago it was localy 20 degrees warmer in antarctica)

Ice on the poles is unique in the history of the earth (less than 1% off the time), also the last (eemian) interglacial 120 Kyears ago was at least 3 degrees (c) warmer than this interglacial.

So yeah it actually is Cold..

You can maybe work in the new mines we are opening to export our ‘dirty’ coal and uranium to other countries where they will use it to increase the CO2 level while we, in our self-deprecating manner, will embrace a carbon tax to offset our 1.4% of the man-made CO2 contribution.