With regards to Ian's whole "Modern era" thing, I think that there is little doubt that in a warming climate - such as the one we are currently experiencing - that severe winters will become less common and therefore the periods between them greater. So we will (if the warming trend continues for the UK - and i'm not here to debate that) see longer periods between really cold winters.
However I think the area where most people, including myself disagree with Ian is that although the time periods between the colder months / winters might increase we will still get them.
If we extrapolate out over a long period of time - lets say several centuries, and the warming trend continues throughout that period (god help us) then there will come a point where winters like 2009/10 become extremely unlikely.
For what it's worth, leaving apart the whole silliness around the "modern era" nonsense i'd like to see Ian put some figures on what he expects to see. For example does he think we will see a sub zero CET month again, and if so how likely is it. What does he think, in terms of CET, a "modern winter" looks like and what would he consider a departure from it?
Until there are some hard quantifying statements it becomes difficult not to look at it as at very best being subtle trolling. That being said Ian's Modern Winter stuff is almost part of the furniture on here now in any case.
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29 September 2017 17:52:46
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