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 Its me The Extreme Weather Cat AKA Kathryn    weather forecasts indicate possible 1 to 4 inches of snow tonight and then a warm up followed by another cool down again at the end of the week again  what a wild ride.  the weather is giving  us. However i have been doing some research into what's happening astronomicaly and well  the sun is entering another minimum period  if its anything like the Mounder minimum  of the 1600s an the 1700s the earth is in for maybe a mini ice age  but the only mitigateing factor i can think of is  global warming it would keep the earth's temps up and that would compensate for the decreased solar actvitiy and out put  we are soo dependent on the sun for  more than just warmpth and light.


 Any one who has seen the movie "  The Day After Tomarrow" will know from that movie any cooling effects that are created by the decreased solar activity and lower than normal solar output   will cause cooling of the tropical currents like the gulf stream and that in turn could trigger snowyer winters in places like europe and  england and the snow not really melting when summer rolls around because the sun is not warming the planet  the last Maunder Minimum i think lasted 100 years i will check on that  and let you know from 1645 to 1715 thats about 100 years and well the little ice age coinsided with that period and well we are headed  from whats called the Moden Maximum into what will most likely be called the Modern Minimum for modern times it may be a period of decreased solar actvitiy that will cause more havoc with earths climate that we are sure off why becacuse there is a written record of the little ice age that aflicted europe and the armeican north east  in that time frame so i am consurned  there was a story published in the Journal Nation GeoScience  recently as recently as 2011  that showed a corrilation between  sun spots and an increase in UV light from the sun and  how it affects earths climate.

The lower sun spot Activity releases lower levels of UV light  and lower amounts of heat as well  the sun is basicly dimmer than it normaly is because its in a lul of acvitity and well its just the way it is and we humans have to adapt  as i am sure you have eard this  for the North east " as surely as the water flows in the valies of the north east  like the hudson valley  the Ice will again return to the hudson valley and the north east and reclame its land. "

 and decreassed heat from the sun would cause  snowyer winters and cooler and wetter summers in most areas in the north that gets show the snow would be slow to melt away in spring and start to pile up more year after year thats how  ice sheets are born  from years and years of piled up  snow it compresses into ice  and rivers of ice too and also sea level will be lower than  it is now durring a ice age and the desert states would see a greening effect and so on the shahara desert would see a greening as well more rain and water for parched lands and such the whole climate zones would shift south as the ice sheets advance in the northern hemisphere i dont know about the southern Hemisphere but i am sure in antrica the same effects too will occur because its in the same polar reagon as the artic.  so that has me a bit consurned but we shall see what we shall see

 thanks as allways stay safe out there weather fans

Kathryn
The Extreme Weather Cat