Major heat and cold waves are ordered by key heliocentric quadrupole configurations of the gas giants

Extreme hot and cold weather events regularly occur at syzygies and quadratures of the four gas giants, with greater extreme events involving configurations of 3-4 bodies. The logic of two body configurations of superior conjunctions and either quadrature, derived from correlations with many centuries of weather records, is as follows.

        Jupiter opposite Neptune = cold.

        Jupiter square Neptune = hot.

        Saturn opposite Neptune = hot

        Saturn square Neptune = cold.

        Jupiter opposite Uranus = hot.

        Jupiter square Uranus = cold.

        Saturn opposite Uranus = cold.

        Saturn square Uranus = hot.

        Uranus opposite Neptune = hot.

        Uranus square Neptune = cold.

        Saturn opposite Jupiter = cold.

        Saturn square Jupiter = hot.

According to these rules, the 1976 Jupiter opposite Uranus and roughly square to Saturn, is one hot opposition, and two hot quadratures. (pictured above)

The same configuration type occurred in the warmth of 1686 in the Maunder Minimum, and in 1934, 1948-49, 2003, and the 2017-18 heatwaves. And also at sunspot cycle maximum during the great solar storm of 775 AD.

Inner planets order the weekly-monthly scale anomalies, with the 1976 example, the hotter months start from when the inner planets group on the Saturn line, on either side of the Sun.

The hottest known European heatwaves of the last 800 years all occurred during the configuration of Saturn opposite Neptune, roughly square to Jupiter. In 1361, 1540, 1757, and July 2006. (and the US heat-wave of 1936)

The apparent logic dictates that 3 body major hot and cold events have to occur on T-squares.

Mechanisms would likely involve the interaction of the magnetic connections from the Sun to each body, with a solar equatorial quadrupole magnetic moment, ordered N, S, N, S, around the solar equator. Driving changes in the solar wind strength, which influences the Arctic Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation.

Ulric Lyons ©2013

Reference materials:

Heliocentric solar system model (change date as required, change size to say 800, and click ‘Update):
https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar

Weather chronology:
http://www.breadandbutterscience.com/Weather.pdf

Central England monthly mean temperatures since 1659:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/legacy/data/cetml1659on.dat

Heliocentric superior conjunctions of Neptune and Jupiter, and Extreme Cold Winters (ECW)

16-06-1504

14-04-1517  ECW 1517+1518

28-02-1530

21-01-1543  ECW 1544

10-12-1555

18-10-1568  ECW 1569

04-08-1581

12-05-1594  ECW 1595

25-01-1607  ECW 1608

03-10-1619  ECW 1619

07-06-1632  ECW 1633

16-02-1645  ECW 1645

11-11-1657  ECW 1658

25-08-1670

25-06-1683  ECW 1684

10-05-1696  ECW 1697

05-04-1709  ECW 1709+1710

22-02-1722  ECW 1723

26-12-1734

15-10-1747  ECW 1748

11-07-1760  ECW 1760

23-03-1773  ECW 1774

26-11-1785  ECW 1786

03-08-1798  ECW 1799+1800

18-04-1811  ECW 1811

11-01-1824

25-10-1836  ECW 1837

29-08-1849  ECW 1850

17-07-1862  ECW 1864

09-06-1875

29-04-1888  ECW 1888

03-03-1901

15-12-1913

12-09-1926

26-05-1939  ECW 1940

29-01-1952  ECW 1952

03-10-1964

18-06-1977  ECW 1977

17-03-1990  ECW 1991

01-01-2003

05-11-2015