Climate change in High Wycombe
Most
climate change predictions are expecting a worldwide /
global temperature rise in line with this graph:
However it is already noticeable that the
climate change in fact may have different manifestation in various parts of the world.
Curiously enough the area of North Atlantic is the only part of the World where considerably colder winters are predicted in the forthcoming decades.
The climate scientists now came up with a more precise explanation and coined a term called
North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)
that effectively behaves like a giant see-saw in weather systems in the North Atlantic.
In fact it appears that the ongoing
climate change is upsetting the NAO's normaly more balanced swings.
For start the 2007 winter brought some serious Arctic weather that hit Europe and Britain was not speared.
When the freezing cold air mixed with the wet and humid Atlantic air, it produced a unusually
high snowfall that stayed for more than a week.
Here in South East the Councils relied on the road salt as the only means of clearing the roads from snow,
and residents were urged to stay at home as AA warned of dangerous driving conditions.
While the main roads trough
High Wycombe and the nearby M40 motorway remained operational for most days, the same can't be said for the side roads,
and the country roads around the
town.
As the result literally all the schools were closed for a week, and even some local businesses.
That was the winter in 2007, and now in 2009 the snowfall brought us some new exitement:
a
Department store pyjamma party.
