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Old 09-24-2008, 08:14 PM   #1
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Default On top of everything else, expect a cold winter!

If things couldn't get any worse folks!
The solar wind - the stream of charged particles billowing away from the Sun - is at its weakest for 50 years.
Indeed, one impact is to diminish slightly the influence the Sun has over its local environment which extends billions of kilometres into space.
The solar wind, which originates in the Sun's hot outer atmosphere known as the corona, gusts and calms with the star's familiar 11-year cycle of activity (but also over its less well known longer cycles, too).

Calmer wind conditions would be expected to prevail right now, but the Ulysses data indicates circumstances unprecedented in recent times.
The Sun is a variable star; activity rises and falls in cycles
"The entire Sun is blowing significantly less hard - about 20-25% less hard - than it was during the last solar minimum 10-15 years ago.

"That's a very significant change. In fact, the solar wind we're seeing now is blowing the least hard we've see it for a prolonged time, since the start of those observations in the 1960s at the start of the space age."

In addition to being calmer, the wind measured at Ulysses is 13% cooler.
Expect a cold winter!

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Old 09-25-2008, 12:43 AM   #2
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I do!
The 'seem' to get colder every year...either that or I am just getting older and can't take it like I use to. hehe!
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Old 09-25-2008, 09:50 AM   #3
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I do!
The 'seem' to get colder every year...either that or I am just getting older and can't take it like I use to. hehe!
Well I don't know what neck of the woods you come from Old Dood but the last two summers here in Holland have been cold, wet and windy!
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Old 09-25-2008, 09:53 AM   #4
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Well I don't know what neck of the woods you come from Old Dood but the last two summers here in Holland have been cold, wet and windy!
LOL That's a normal summer in the UK

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Old 09-25-2008, 10:12 AM   #5
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Most people I know here say that last summer was cool, and this winter was cooler than a lot of sun-kissed Aussies were expecting too.

It is essential to have a good selection of effective cold-weather clothing, and to understand the effects of water on that clothing.

For example: wet cotton clothes can kill you in the cold (google "cotton kills" or see here for more info http://www.hikingintherockies.com/other/clothing.htm). Wet wool on the other hand, can still insulate to some degree and give you another chance!

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That's interesting to know about cotton.

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Old 09-25-2008, 10:27 AM   #7
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Most people I know here say that last summer was cool, and this winter was cooler than a lot of sun-kissed Aussies were expecting too.

It is essential to have a good selection of effective cold-weather clothing, and to understand the effects of water on that clothing.

For example: wet cotton clothes can kill you in the cold (google "cotton kills" or see here for more info http://www.hikingintherockies.com/other/clothing.htm). Wet wool on the other hand, can still insulate to some degree and give you another chance!

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I think cold in Sydney and cold in Holland are two separate subjects, hahaha!
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Old 09-25-2008, 10:35 AM   #8
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@gazbom: sure, but once you get up in mountains or any of the places above a few hundered metres it can get rather chilly.

At least we have mountains!

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@gazbom: sure, but once you get up in mountains or any of the places above a few hundered metres it can get rather chilly.

At least we have mountains!

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Hahahah, yeah sure, I know what you mean.
You gonna lose them ashes next summer!
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