Steve,
> We can probably put a lot of the blame onto El Niño
That sounds plausible but I'm suspicious of quick and simple explanations.
You work at/for a university, near the coast, yes? Can you ping some of
your climatology / oceanography colleagues and get data going back as
far as they have it? I think it would be useful to see what the
correlation coefficient actually is.
Attached is an LOD plot I made a while ago. A random web google link
says "The five strongest El Niño events since 1950 were in the winters
of 1957-58, 1965-66, 1972-73, 1982-83 and 1997-98". To my eyeball I just
don't see that in the historical LOD plot.
/tvb
On 5/26/2023 9:09 AM, Steve Allen wrote:
On Mon 2023-05-22T16:44:30+0200 Tony Finch hath writ:
The prospect of a negative leap second is receding. The longer-term
projected length of day from Bulletin A has been increasing towards 24h
in recent months.
We can probably put a lot of the blame onto El Niño
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