>- Mark Vogan

To be honest with you I am very unsure about what our winter here in Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland holds. Like I’ve mentioned in recent articles, winter here has been warm, it’s been warm my whole life (26 years) so when anyone tells me that things are changing and truely savage winters are upon us, I am a little hesitant in buying into it.

However, simply going by historical timelines and tying in past ingredients, why can it not return to where we were long ago?

I believe, but am hesitant, that this upcoming winter will be a reminder that we here in the British Isles can still see REAL winter and the sunspot activity combined with a quite likely weakening of the El Nino which the cold Pacific cannot sustain, could lead to a very tough winter of persistent cold and snow. It happened back in 2002-2003 and with water profiles across the North Atlantic that favors a blocking pattern, there is a lot driving the idea towards a truely brutal UK winter and the US east coast must worry about the same only with their PDO status in a cold mode and the pattern evolved from the past few winters with the corridor of cold shifting from the west to east and INCREASE in Arctic sea ice, leads me to believe they could be in for one of their worst winters in perhaps a few decades.

Times are changing as we enter solar territores not seen in a lifetime, combine that with it’s driving down of global ocean temperature then it’s CERTAIN now that colder times are ahead.

Canada is likely in my book the first country that will experience and already has started to see the first true signs of global warming in the type of winters their now starting to see and this winter will be the eastern provinces wake-up call to colder times ahead. Sure, there have been a few tasters in the past decade but new records will become more and more frequent.

What do you think? Please send me your thoughts on these topics in the comments link below.

Check out this interesting piece.
http://www.cjonline.com/news/local/2009-09-20/earth_approaching_sunspot_records

Thanks for reading.