[Vision2020] [Bulk] La Nina? March-May 2008: Idaho 2nd.Coolest In Lower 48, Oregon 1st, Washington 3rd.

[Paul Rumelhart]

Color me confused, but didn't we just go through a cold, snowy, wet, 
active winter here in Moscow?  I seem to remember the University being 
closed for a couple of days and having to shovel some snow off the roof 
of my house for the first time ever.  Isn't that expected in a La Nina year?

It's also not clear that La Nina or El Nino years have much correlation 
with global warming, positive or negative.

As I've tried to make clear, it's complex.

While looking around for real-time sunspot numbers (I haven't found any 
yet), I came across a science article from the BBC in 2004 that claims 
that the Sun has been the most active in the past 60 years than at any 
other time in the past 1000 years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3869753.stm

Isn't it possible that the Sun is having a warming effect that is 
exacerbated or amplified by the CO2 we've been dumping into the air?  
Does it have to anthropogenic-only or nothing?

Since the Sun seems to have stalled on it's climb back up to activity 
this solar cycle, maybe we'll get a break.

Paul

Ted Moffett wrote:
> In the March-May US temperature map from NOAA, Idaho was assigned the 
> next to lowest number, thus was second coolest in the lower 48, with 
> Oregon the coolest and Washington third coolest.  Thus based on 
> this map, the Northwest had the coolest weather in the contiguous US 
> from March to May. 
>  
> La Nina?  Info on La Nina and Northwest US weather from Western 
> Regional Climate Center:
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> http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/enso/ensofaq.html
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> From URL above:
>  
> In the Pacific Northwest, this appears to be not as true. La Nina 
> generally brings cold, snowy, wet, active winters to the northern 
> Cascades and the northern Rockies.
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> http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/images/03-05Statewidetrank_pg_final.gif
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