larus
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There are a lot of berries on a holly tree near my house. It's going to be a long cold winter.
Back in the real world - too early to say.
With the El Nino underway, this can often have an impact on NH winters making them colder. Also, this is coinciding with diminished solar activity as the current solar cycle is very weak, and, worryingly, the projections for the next one are that it will be even weaker.
This will be very interesting in the next 5 odd years or so, as the 'Pause' will extend much further and real global temperatures (not the ones constantly undergoing historical adjustments to make the past seem colder) are likely to start dropping. The Solar Activity was very high at the end of the last century, and guess what, global temperatures rose. Wow, who'd have though it eh!!
I realise that many are still firmly bedded to the idea that the increase of CO2 from about 3/10,000 to 4/10,000 (yes, a whole increase of 1 part per 10,000) will cause catastrophic climate change. Anyway, that is a totally separate subject