Re:Central Spain records temperatures of -25°C after snowstorm
by guidedlight on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:48PM
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We are also entering a solar minimum, the last one was linked to a “little ice age” in Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum
I don’t know how climate change will affect this. But we might be in for an interesting few years.
Re:Central Spain records temperatures of -25°C after snowstorm
by CraigJPerry on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:52PM
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No we just left a minimum, there’s been sunspots of opposite polarity appearing since early 2019 if memory serves - round about that timeframe anyway but the end of the minimum wasn’t confirmed until earlier in 2020.
It wasn’t a Maunder Minimum.
For the next 4 years or so we’ll proceed to maximum then back down to the next minimum thereafter.
Re:Central Spain records temperatures of -25°C after snowstorm
by throwawyeverytm on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:09PM
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> The Maunder Minimum occurred with a much longer period of lower-than-average European temperatures which is likely to have been primarily caused by volcanic activity.[citation needed]
Re:Central Spain records temperatures of -25°C after snowstorm
by Teckla on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:34PM
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There are literally two citations immediately following that sentence in the Wikipedia article.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25713704