I was in a series of meetings halfway up a London skyscraper listening to the remnants of Blizzard/Winter Storm Jonas last week, so my news of Storm Gertrude is slightly belated. Before Gertie arrived one of our number had to jump on a train back to the North of England to deal with a personal flooding problem thanks to the amount of precipitation that ex Jonas deposited on the already sodden soil up there. He wasn't the only one affected:
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Tags: AMOC, BBC, Floods, Gertrude 2016, GFS, Haldon, Henry 2016, Imogen 2016, Jet Stream, Jonas 2016, Met Office, Stefan Rahmstorf, Tor 2016
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Roland Emmerich's "The Day After Tomorrow" is a BAFTA award winning action/adventure movie in which, according to the Internet Movie Database:
A sudden international storm plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.
A large team of scientists have spent the last four years investigating how close to the truth the movie is, under the auspices of the European Union's "Thermohaline Overturning – at Risk?" project (or THOR for short). The project web site states that their objectives are to:
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Tags: AMOC, Arctic, Arctic Sea Ice, Climate, Greenland, Morris Jesup, Nord, Polynya, Stefan Rahmstorf, THC, THOR, Videos
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