winters here in the uk have been on a definate cooling trend for a couple of years now, last year temps reached -10 on the south coast. however there does seem to be a pattern.
on page 5 you will find the graph to support this........
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Figure 2 shows a time series of mean monthly temperature anomalies averaged over the UK. The particularly cold months of January 1947, January 1963 and February 1986 can be seen, as well as the marked increase in temperature since 1987.
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http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/...ate_trends.pdf
anyway this link is worth a read
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but this data doesnt show if the blue spiral anonomally has anything to do with the current temperature in the northern hemisphere......all it does is show us that fluctuations in average temp is cyclic and quite normal (and please excuse spelling im dyslexic)
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