Weather forecast for the coming winter

Recently, the weather has raised many questions for Russians. Hurricanes ripping off roofs, hail in the middle of summer, icy showers and wild cold in June - it seems that the weather has gone mad.



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We are used to blaming global warming for all the troubles, but, as it turned out, we can expect global cooling. Scientists from the UK and Russia claim that our planet has entered a new climate cycleIt is characterized by a worldwide decrease in temperature.



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According to their calculations, the coming winter will be the coldest in the last hundred years. Dramatic climate change will be triggered by two natural phenomena. decrease in solar activity and changing the direction of air masses.

Weather for the winter 2018-2019 The first to talk about a difficult winter British climatologists. They found a fraction of a degree increase in temperature in the Atlantic and compared the deviation of ocean currents with the direction of air currents. According to their forecasts, record low temperatures will begin to be observed from mid-October, and in winter Europe is threatened with frosts of 25-30 degrees.



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For Siberians, this weather is not unusual, and for Europeans it is a disaster like the one we saw in the blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow (2004). In this regard, scientists warn: the time to purchase warm things and care about the health of heating in homes is not so much.



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Europe is already preparing for a cold winter, confirming that climate forecasts are not an empty newspaper sensation. According to public sources, European countries increased the volume of purchases and injections of natural gas by 5-10%.



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Earlier, researchers from Northumbria University in the UK, modeling and analyzing the cycles of solar activity, reported that in 5-10 years on Earth may come global cooling.



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The minimum activity of the Sun, according to experts, is expected in the period from 2022 to 2040, so in the coming years it may fall to a minimum of the XIV-XVII centuries, which is called the Little Ice Age.

The Little Ice Age brought fatal changes to European life. Between 1315 and 1317, the Great Famine caused nearly a quarter of Europe’s population to die. During these years, the Thames, the Danube, the canals in Amsterdam and even the Adriatic Sea were repeatedly frozen.





The peak of cooling occurred during the Maunder Minimum years, from 1645 to 1715. There were very few sunspots at that time. Only 40-50, instead of the usual 40-50 thousand. Such “attenuation” of solar activity is cyclical and occurs once every 300-400 years.

"Winter is coming" - the motto of the House Stark from the TV series "Game of Thrones", based on the popular saga of George Martin, is more relevant today than ever before. After all, the new Maunder minimum, according to experts, can begin literally in 5-6 years.



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Summer will be a little colder, winter - frostier and longer. The cycle of reduced solar activity will be twice as short as what happened 400 years ago and will take not 60, but 30 years.

You and I have only one way to test this statement: to live and see. In the meantime, warm up! "Site" offers fashionable shoe novelties of the autumn-winter season - 2018/2019.

Winter is approaching, and the problem of constantly freezing hands and feet becomes especially urgent. Our editorial board publishes expert advice addressed to those to whom this feature seriously spoils life.

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