Hurricanes and NAO

Its half term this week so I have not been pondering my future career as a teacher. This week I have been mainly thinking about skiing and how much snow there will be in Europe.

So I know that most weather forecasters are predicting a negative NAO (northern Atlantic Oscilliation) which is associated with lots of lovely snow in Europe. However I have noticed that we should in theory be about to enter a negative phase of NAO usually about a decade where most years its a negative phase NAO, with the occassional postive phase NAO. It has also occured to me that the hurricane phase is changing, so I looked into it and what do you know the decades that have the most hurricanes also have Negative phase NAO's. When you do a bit os Stats on the data if 2+ major (cataogory3+) hurricanes make landfall in the USA then it is 3 times more likely to be a Negative NAO. Just wondering whether the amount of hurricanes and the strength of the hurricanes might correlate with the strength of the Negative NAO, and if so does that mean that a negative NAO caused more hurricanes or is it just co-incidence.

Anyway I am off to look at the years which had the strongest negative NAO and whether they are also the years that have the most hurricanes recorded. You can take the scientist out of the lab, but they are still stupid enough to try and do statistics and any data available.

Forgive me if this is already known by all of you and a recognised phenomenon but it has only just occurred to me.

Essay is finished

Well my essay is finished after a marathon 9 hours of work today! The bad news is that I still have to plan lessons for tomorrow. A2 level photosynthesis, whilst I know the topic I am just a bit worried about how a2 level is taught these days.
I felt very guilty about having to spend all day sunday locked away from Si and Morgs but we all knew that at times it would be this way. It didn't help that simon came back from swimming and asked me to finsh so I could spend some time with them.
The lead school day was great and I have some great ideas about starters now, just need to sit down and make some resources Most of my lessons this week are early in the week so I am hoping to spend some time wednesday and thursday making some resources and playing with the laminator (well thats the theory!)

The other thing i need to confess is that I havent practised my german and won't have time before tomorrow evening as I have to bake a cake for Morgans harvest festival and leave home at 5pm tomorrow to take him to Anna and Jamies house. I am sure by Thursday I will feel normal again.
Check in soon when I have 5 minutes or something interestng to say!
Will try and blog about the school re-alignment and TLR and what that means in my placement school at some point this week