Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Global Warmers dancing for delight.

In Britain, and indeed most of Central Europe and particularly Greece proponents of Global Warming were dancing for delight as temperatures seemed primed to outstrip all records for the month, as the mercury rose to yet another day of elevated readings. However those of a more sobre disposition chose to hold back the champagne upon examination of the relevant wind flows that revealed that once again these temperatures were not due to swirling clouds of carbon dioxide but the sole work of southerly wind flows that emanated from equatorial regions, and in some cases crossed over stretches of the Sahara desert.

As the map below illustrates these winds then fanned themselves up the coast of North Africa to spread northwards and eastwards to the aforementioned regions.


The image below shows the relevant situation over North Africa at that time with winds crossing the deserts of the north of the continent before introducing baking winds to many European nations.