"the sun is slipping into hibernation" .. "It'll result in a Little Ice Age ".. http://ow.ly/8O2G1

March-April-May that almost entire India is likely to witness below-normal temperatures ... http://ow.ly/8O2qX

Minimum temperatures rose by 2 to ­3 C over parts of Punjab, Haryana and Delhi.. this is due to upcoming moisture from W.D

March-April-May that almost entire India is likely to witness below-normal temperatures

South peninsular India may expect to get some organised rainfall by the end of this week as an easterly wave comes calling across the Bay of Bengal. An IMD outlook valid for the next two days said that rainfall activity would increase over Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Rain or thundershowers could break out afresh at a few places over east Madhya Pradesh and north Chhattisgarh. Rains have been forecast also over west Madhya Pradesh, south Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, north Madhya Maharashtra, Vidarbha, north coastal Andhra Pradesh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The IMD has flagged the possibility of fog to shallow fog conditions mainly during the morning hours over isolated pockets of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and the North-eastern States during the next two days.

SUMMER HEATING

The Tokyo-based Regional Institute for Global Change has said in its seasonal predictions for March-April-May that almost entire India is likely to witness below-normal temperatures. Heating up of the land through the summer is a must to set up the ideal pressure gradient for the impending monsoon to run in. These are initial indications yet, and would need to be watched on a monthly basis from now to arrive at any definitive trend. But it's also a given that the 2012 monsoon would break out against the background expected ‘ENSO-neutral' conditions in the equatorial Pacific.

6:30pm, Easterlies taking shape over S-E Bay and W.D has started to peek into Punjab .. http://ow.ly/i/rgre

On 4-Feb, a strong W.D to affect N-W India and strong easterlies over S. Tamilnadu and N-E Srilanka.. http://ow.ly/i/rgpT

Easterlies will start along entire Tamilnadu coast from 4-Feb and will last till 9/10-Feb... going to be humid and warm. http://ow.ly/i/rgpb

chennai , S.Andhra and N. Tamilnadu coast to get dry winds from N-N-E till 3-Feb, before easterlies and moisture take over from 4-Feb

chennai - Had a mild morning at 21 deg C and touched a max. of 28.9 C (2:48pm)... another DRY and 20 deg morning in hands.

Dr Nils-Axel Mörner: Arctic environment by the middle of this Century

The UK Met Office and UK climate research unit - the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit (UEA-CRU) just a few days back warned that the sun was slipping into hibernation and would likely to stay that way till end of this century. The last time it happened in earth’s history, it resulted in a Little Ice Age wherein the climate was characterised by cold summers, bitter winters and a shortening of the season available for growing food!

And why should UK Met Office and CRU pronouncements raise eyebrows? Together they produce the HadCRUT global temperature dataset, mainly relied upon by the IPCC for their reports. Moreover, most of the historical global temperature dataset used by other leading climate research centres like NOAA and GISS depend on the CRU dataset as their base, the same targeted by hackers of the Climategate fame.

Consequently, their prediction of an impending Grand Solar Minima has fuelled interest in related topics like the Little Ice Age. This is a paper by Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner published in the journal Energy & Environment last year, republished by us.

Morner, perhaps the best known authority on global sea level rise warns: At around 2040-2050 we will be in a new major Solar Minimum. It is to be expected that we will then have a new “Little Ice Age” over the Arctic and NW Europe. The past Solar Minima were linked to a general speeding-up of the Earth’s rate of rotation. This affected the surface currents and southward penetration of Arctic water in the North Atlantic causing “Little Ice Ages” over northwestern Europe and the Arctic.

Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner, as head of Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics at Stockholm University, worked with sea level problems for 40 years in areas scattered all over the globe; published 546 scientific papers and 10 books on the subject. He was the former President of the INQUA Commission on Neotenotics (1981-89) and INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution (1999-2003.) He headed the INTAS Project on Geomagnetism and Climate (1997-2003). In 2000 he launched an international sea level research project in Maldives.

Read more: http://devconsultancygroup.blogspot.com/2012/01/arctic-environment-by-middle-of-this.html