This mild winters seem to have a correlation to the eleven year solar cycle or sunspot cycle. If you look at this chart you will see the the solar activity goes up and down like a yoyo on an eleven year cycle. I was looking for it it in 2010 and it didn't happen but sure enough one year later we get a little break from the sever winter weather that we usually get here up in good old Minnesota. So hope to see you on the golf course real soon.

By Elmer Beauregard
Minnesota is experiencing a very nice warm winter this year, in fact we just had a brown Christmas. Nobody is blaming it on Global Warming that I have seen but I'm sure they will soon. It is so warm up here that Ice houses are sinking through the ice.
Here is a piece that Kare 11 did on that subject.

Before people start doing the Chicken Little thing and cry "The Globe Is Warming!" I would like to remind everyone that we have had this kind of winter before, and it seems to happen every eleven years or so.
I remember the non-winters of '88 and '99, both of those years people were playing golf in January in Minnesota. Now in 2011 twelve years after the last one we are having a very mild winter, the thing is I was expecting it.



Caveman Forcaster


There seems to be a correlation between these mild winters and the solar cycle or sunspot cycle. If you look at this chart you will see the the solar activity goes up and down like a yo-yo on an eleven year cycle. I was looking for a warm winter in 2010 and it didn't happen but sure enough one year later we get a little break from the severe winters we've had in the last few years. So hope to see you on the golf course real soon.

• Prev
• Next