[on Jan 1, 2015] “In Rome, arctic-inspired winds brought temperatures as low as minus eight degrees Celsius,” says this video by David DuByne. “Palermo woke up under a white blanket,”Dozens of cars are trapped in snows towards Tripoli.”
Meanwhile in Norway, they had to remove snow from below the chairlifts because there was too much snow. One worker said they’ve had more snow in the past two days than they’ve had in the last two years combined.
“These are the same conditions that were experienced during the Dalton and Maunder Minimums,” says David.
In Rome, arctic-inspired winds brought temperatures as low as minus eight degrees Celsius. Palermo woke up under a white blanket. Dozens of cars are trapped in snows towards Tripoli.
Documentary of what Happened during the Little Ice Age 1600-1850’S https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzvyT…
Italy Snows
http://www.euronews.com/2014/12/31/bl…
Southern Italy is experiencing unusually wintry weather. In Rome, arctic-inspired winds brought temperatures as low as minus eight degrees Celsius. For the first time in almost 20 years, cities such as Palermo woke up under a white blanket. It even reached as far as Sardinia.
Greek Snows
Experts estimate that the cold will continue until the New Year, and snow is expected even in coastal areas. Due to the intense snowfall in many parts of the country, the use of snow chains has become necessary in many places.
Reportedly, dozens of cars are trapped for the last 2.5 hours near the tunnel of Artemisium, in the direction towards Tripoli, due to the snow.
http://en.protothema.gr/dozens-of-car…
Romania Snows
Heavy snowfalls and blizzard affected 18 counties in Southern and South Eastern Romania. Many national roads and three highways were closed while large numbers of villages were left without electricity.
Romania issued a code red blizzard warning for three counties as the country was hit by thick snow and high winds on Monday (December 29). Thirty-three passengers on one bus journeying between the Moldovian capital Chisinau and Romania’s Bucharest had to be rescued by emergency services when the vehicle tipped over as visibility neared zero in Buzau.
http://www.euronews.com/2014/01/25/sn…
Turkey Snowfalls
The heavy snowfall is expected to cause major disruption in Bilecik city and the surrounding area, Sakarya, Kocaeli, Bursa, Eskişehir in Marmara region; Çankırı in the Central Anatolia region; Rize and Artvin in the Black Sea region; Bitlis, Şırnak, Mardin, Batman, and Siirt in the Southeastern Anatolia region.
http://www.dailysabah.com/nation/2014…
Norway Removes excessive snows from slopes
20 Dec 2014 – “During the last two days we’ve got more snow than we had in the last two years together,” says a victorious Vegar Sårheim. “I had never believed we would experience this.”
We have received about 1.5 meters of snow in a short period of time. And the forecast until Christmas is that there will come much more. So once we have cleared away this snow, we will face a fantastic Christmas.
http://www.firda.no/Dette_skisenteret…
Ukraine 7 Russian Snows Dec 18-30
Cold weather has killed 37 people in Ukraine so far this month as temperatures reached minus 23 Celsius in parts of the former Soviet republic. Night temperatures are expected to drop to -28C in northern, central and eastern Ukraine this week. The cold snap followed heavy snowfall which left some areas covered with as much as 53 cm (21 inches) of snow. Cars were blocked for 18 kilometres (11 miles) overnight on Saturday on the main road between the capital Kiev and Lviv, officials said.
Blizzards near the western Ukrainian city of Brody
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pictu…
http://www.reuters.com/video/2014/12/…
http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/cae69…
http://www.euronews.com/tag/snowfall/
http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2244834
h/t to David at http://iceagenow.info
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From Time to time I wish for a bit of Global Warming. Some of our friends abroad may wish the same… no mater what causes it.
No, no, no. All this is caused by global warming. You get this kind of snow and huge sea ice extent when 2014 is the hottest year ever! You wish for global cooling to warm up the planet. We 2degC cooling, you wod be sipping margaritas outside in you shorts in Minneapolis, at this time of year.
Actually it is. It’s called Arctic amplification — with the Arctic warming faster than the tropics, we have the jet stream doing crazy things these days. Check out temperature anomalies here:
http://cci-reanalyzer.org/DailySummary/
Plan for more extreme weather, at who knows what cost to society.
Hey Barry, what would the lack of global warming look like?
Barry, the temperature difference between the arctic and the tropics is what creates the jet stream. A lower temperature difference would decrease the power of the jet stream to create chaos.
Barry, I would request that you think back to 2005 and the claims the warmest were making back then…specifically about cold winters and snowfall.
“BBQ Winters”
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is anymore”
Etc.
Barry–you belong to a group that calls white white and blue or black white, too.
Distort truth to the breaking point and we won’t know what to call things. But then, that’s your objective, isn’t it?
“Barry- Actually it is. It’s called Arctic amplification — with the Arctic warming faster than the tropics, we have the jet stream doing crazy things…….
It seems like it was the same type of weather they had 20 years ago. ” For the first time in almost 20 years, cities such as Palermo woke up under a white blanket.”
I always like it when an article starts out “For the first time in x amount of years……”
Barry- you are either too young or have a failed memory about northern jet streams back the 50’s, 60’s and early 70’s and the articles about “going into another ice age. Arctic amplification, my hind end.
Plan for more “extreme” weather,…. Get a clue. Been there, done that.
That “crazy” thing the jet stream is doing is called meandering, and it has been doing this “crazy” thing well before the industrial revolution.
Pope Francis triggered the Gore effect.
It’s weather when it’s a cold anomaly and it’s global warming when it’s a hot anomaly… except when it’s global warming when it’s a cold anomaly. And you all caused it.
So it would be warmer if there were no warming? I think i get it now.
Climate disruption. [checks box]
That’s all for that, then.
Anthropogenic Global Cooling – Surely its gotta be “the next big thing” to fund?
So much global warming fluttering down to earth….
Here is a reminder of what one climate modeller thought about snowfalls and heat. Enter Dr. David Viner formerly of the Climate Research Unit (UK).
“The Mediterranean is turning into a sauna. The human body cannot cope.”
Sauna [‘sow-nuh], partitive plural ‘saunoja’ [‘sow-naw-yah]
Moderate sauna is +60°C and humid, 80%-90%. Many people like 80°C or 100°C, but then humidity must be much lower. I just enjoyed 50°C in 100% humidity (yeah, good sauna has both thermometer and humidity meter).
I’d say the best sauna imitation you get outside a sauna, is somewhere in a jungle, maybe in Thailand. Those people there are incredibly resilient. There used to be World Championships in saunaing (taking saunabath) but they stopped when a doped Russian-born athlete boiled himself by taking painkillers during the contest. Thais would probably have dominated if they took part. No doping needed.
Anyway, heat waves are still weather, as cold waves. We in Finland have now moderate slushwave, meaning the temps are high enough to make snow change to slush and some random patches trampled ice. It kills people, but unfortunately not because of warm or cold but snapping femurs.
I think you’ll find Jimbo that it is Dr. Viner from the University of Going a Bit Red in Helsinki.
Here are others on snowfalls. They said 2014 was nearly(?) the hottest year evaaaaaaah. They said it was the hottest decade (2000 to 2010) and it’s unprecedented.
The WINTER SNOW reality since 1967. Spring is down though.
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/images/nhland_season1.png
Here are Fall and Spring.
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/images/nhland_season4.png
http://climate.rutgers.edu/snowcover/images/nhland_season2.png
This would be consistent with a shift to global cooling wouldn’t it Jimbo?
Hello, Barry, are you there?…Barry?
Jimbo,
You’re a superstar.
Barry,
What do you want to say now?
Funny, isn’t it? As much as I want to see the BBC, Guardian, and all those AGW believers looking stupid, living in England, I would just love it if we had the warmth that was being predicted. I well remember 1975 and 1976 (I had just started work) and I loved the days of glorious sunshine and warm evenings here in the south of England. Of course, this was before global warming started proper and we got ‘normal’ summers! I hate snow, and I hate cold. Now it costs me a fortune, as well, to keep my house warm!
Where I live, in the south-eastern US, it has been a very mild winter. I am not complaining. People rarely move to where it is colder. When was the last time some one said “I want to retire where it is cold”? I want it warmer. Bring on global warming I say.
Yes, it has been mild in my neck of the beach. However, I am still thinking about a winter home even farther south than Venice, FL. I do not like anything under 80F (27C).
Ditto that. I’m from Michigan and I’d like to see palm trees along Lake Michigan.
I do not like anything under 80F (27C).
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co-incidentally, 27C is the temperature of the tropical jungles. the minimum temperature at which a human being can survive without technology. Below 27C a naked human radiates more energy (about 150 watts) than can be gained by eating food, and will eventually die of exposure.
At 15C, the average temperature of the earth is too cold to support human life except in very isolated pockets in the tropics. Except for the domestication of fire almost none of us could survive where we live today.
“Below 27C a naked human radiates more energy (about 150 watts) than can be gained by eating food, and will eventually die of exposure.”
That strikes me as being rank nonsense. My skinny little kid runs around almost naked all the time and it’s rarely 80 degrees in our house. Personally, I’m uncomfortably warm at 80. Do you have any science to back up this nonsense?
So, Ashby, your child is sleeping naked with no covers as well? I suspect not.
In search and rescue, people can survive for “virtually an unlimited time in 70-80 degree water”. I’m not buying that 80 degree air is worse… http://abcnews.go.com/Health/missing-erik-fishing-boat-capsize-survive-warm-waters/story?id=14000413
I’m not trying to be pointlessly argumentative here, but “80 degrees and naked=terminal hypothermia even if you’re well fed and eating regularly” strikes me as absurd. (I’ll let you all know if my DNA test comes back with abnormally high Neanderthal percentages.)
Ashby Manson
Stage 1 Awake and shivering Mild 32–35 °C (90–95 °F)
Stage 2 Drowsy and not shivering Moderate 28–32 °C (82–90 °F)
Stage 3 Unconscious, not shivering Severe 20–28 °C (68–82 °F)
Stage 4 No vital signs Profound <20 °C (68 °F)
Sandy, Yes, if your core temperature falls to those levels you will experience hypothermia. However, humans are not lizards. We generate body warmth and can (to an extent) compensate for cold surroundings. If it is cold, our body will generate more heat and close down our capillaries to lessen heat loss. I’m not denying cold is dangerous, I’m looking for verification for the flying dutchman “fact” that 80° f is lethal absent clothing. Does anyone have a source for that ludicrous claim?
This is an interesting side-topic. (What temperatures cause hypothermia in humans.)
The factor of people’s metabolisms has to be considered. As I recall there were people native to Tierra del Fuego who amazed outsiders by being able to withstand cold temperatures with a minimum of clothing.
Speaking only for myself, when I was young I liked snow. Now I am not so fond of it.
Warmer is better, that’s for sure. Like S Goddard said on his site, a slight tax to make it warmer might be acceptable but under no circumstances should it ever be used to make it cooler.
And all we’re getting here in SW Finland is rain, rain, rain after a few good winter days. I’d gladly accept all misplaced snow here where it belongs.
It has been interesting to watch the high pressure settle down over Europe. The east winds to its south side brought cold Siberian air west, while the west winds to its north side brought milder Atlantic air over the top to Scandinavia. At one point I think it was colder in Sicily than in Sweden.
The cold even made it to the north coast of Africa, where they had rare snows for the second time in two years.
You won’t see this in the MSM or on the Beeb, they are only showing the fires RAGING in Australia, the worst for 30 years and being made worse by AGW..
They can’t even see the contrdiction in their statements.
So presumably that literal Hell on Earth that is Australia is showing up on OCO2 , a little test for everyone’s favourite new toy.
The evil Aussies are being punished for abolishing their co2 tax. Take note, lest you also will burn. Repent, repent, and mend your ways, all ye sinners!
Since this kind of pseudo-religious thinking is rather common among fanatical anti-CO2-crusaders, I’m somewhat afraid that some of these Australian bush fires could be maybe ignited by those fanatics in order to lend a hand to the “righteous” punishment of the evil CO2 sinners…
Sinners in the hands of an angry Gaia!
Quite so, GT. And a 49yo country woman is in custody. Not the typical profile of an arsonist, but possibly a hippy?
Almost all the fires in Vic and SA were started by lightening, and then burning embers starting others. I was keeping an eye on the news here to see if there were reports of fires being started by arsonists. One fire was started by someone using some sort of furnace, I have not heard any more detail.
The BBC;s latest has a minor typo, quoted word for word . . . .
“Australia faces such fires every year but environmentalists say global warning is making their occurrence more frequent.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-30664760
So it’s now re-named Global Warning? Great. Cannot seem to find any BBC coverage on the snow in Europe.
Yes the Austrailains, just like Western Americans face wildfires in the middle of summer, every year, but this year it is global warning sheesh.
The fires are worse than they used to be because the environmentalists, that seem to take over the environmental departments of every government who sets one up, have prevented the annual fuel reduction burn offs that were done by farmers and graziers and the Aboriginal people before them.
This comes up every time that we have these fires and it is well recognized as a major issue with the extent and the ferocity of the fires but remedial action to restart sensible fuel reduction burning each winter is met with fanatical opposition by the greenies. None of any report findings that clearly identify this issue ever seem to get into the main stream media but all of the environmentalists misinformation does.
Governments, both state and commonwealth, being naturally cowards, back away from any meaningful action as soon as the green groups start campaigning. As is the case everywhere in the world all of these environmental trouble makers are inner city latte sipping lefties who have never had to put up with the consequences of these failed policies. We probably need to conscript them in to the rural fire brigades to fight some of these fires. Maybe then they will begin to understand the problems they are causing a bit better.
@camaeronH. Same here in Canada, some of the worst fires in the last decade or so were accentuated in areas were the “greens” had protested what we call “back burning” and remedial burning to prevent larger fires, the last few years we have had a recurrence of a beetle invasion ( happens for centuries) that left large stands of timber killed and dried. but no, the forest industry was not allowed to deal with the problem because of protests. Their (the industry) answer was selective logging for viable timber and controlled burning of the diseased trees but that would have “upset ” the balance according to the greens I guess uncontrolled wild fires were preferred by them.
Most of our wildfires in the US are caused by people with matches. My guess it is the same for Australia.
It looks like it was lightning this time but the BS has been known to incite an idiot.
Correct Jim, the fires started yesterday in Northern Victoria were deliberately lit. One woman has been charged with multiple offences.
Last year, I think it was linked to a military exercise that went wrong.
Rohan. A link please. All the articles I have read in the papers so far say that apart from a grass fire near Moyston started on Friday, the other Victorian fires were started by lightning storms going through on Saturday.
The Adelaide Hills fire seems to be started by a bottle in long grass.
http://www.news.com.au/national/south-australia/cfs-reports-huge-bushfire-destroys-homes-in-adelaide-hills/story-fnii5yv4-1227173793506 (it links to the story with an address that is ridiculously long).
Odd that about the Australian fires, ‘raging’, seeing as how there’s been so much rain recently.
Must be localised events because even Green Organs like the Silly Morning Herald aren’t hyping them big time!
Increased rain in recent years combined with houses built in the pretty green trees, through in a ban on back burning in the outer city region where the fire is, and watch those fires burn.
Combine with Australian housing bubble, and the rebuilding will make all of Australia rich!
Yes there are bushfires in South Australia, and the winds are swirling them around a bit, but with all that windy weather, and with South Australia being the state with the most wind-generated power, I am wondering whether any of the fires have been caused by failed wind generators.
As for being the worst in 30 years, that’s just cherry-picking. Last year, two people were killed by a bushfire in SA. That was worse. In 2007, about 200 were killed by bushfires in Victoria. That was worse.
In 1939, an official number of 176 were killed by a bushfire in Victoria, but it might have been a lot more. That was unimaginably worse. Roads and settlements disappeared from the map. Wooden road bridges weren’t rebuilt because there was nowhere at the end of the roads, and the roads simply degenerated back into the bush. Undocumented settlements of people surviving the tail-end of the great depression never made it into any record.
When will snowfalls be just a thing of the past? When will Algerian and Tunisian children be ignorant of that white stuff? LOL.
1 January 2015
Snow was reported as far south as Sicily, Algeria, Tunisia, Athens and Istanbul as Siberian winds blast through Europe.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/world/47963/snow_blankets_sicily_and_northern_africa
Snow in Greece
http://en.protothema.gr/dozens-of-cars-trapped-due-to-snowfall-in-the-tunnel-of-artemision/
It snowed in the big dune area of the Sahara in central Algeria (the Ourhoud oilfield to be precise) in 2006.
Snow storms are not inconsistent with AGW! According to the green zealots!
Remember the Met Office has frequently said that we can see the effects of AGW with increasing extreme weather. Obviously their new computer that cost many millions, will give them more accurate horoscopes!
More snow is is entirely consistent with global warming. So is less snow! No matter what happens to the weather or climate it is entirely consistent with global warming – even global cooling.
What I want to know is this – are their goalposts motorized or mechanical?
Consistent with is an extremely weak logical relation.
A proposition can be consistent with any number of mutually inconsistent propositions. Therefore the consistency argument is only used as a last resort if all else fails.
…“In Rome, arctic-inspired winds brought temperatures as low as minus eight degrees Celsius,” …
Aha, Extreme Weather! Just as we predicted! Give us more money, and up the taxes….
Those “arctic-inspired winds” started at minus fifty degrees Celsius in Siberia, so there was a 42 degrees centigrade warming by the time they’ve reached Rome.
The take-home message is, of course, the 42°C warming, all the rest is journalism. Right?
The true believers will dismiss this as being consistent with Climate Change. Which is why the name was changed in the first place by the proponents of the theory. But this weather, right in their face, will cause the general population who has to actually cope with the conditions to start thinking that things maybe are not so settled.
Hard to convince someone up to his rear in snow that the world is in dire trouble from warming.
This will lead to a decrease in donations to those organizations who have been using it as a scare tactic to raise funds. Meaning they will have to find something else to scare the suckers with, which in turn will lead to far fewer news articles, till we hit the tipping point and the whole thing comes crashing down.
Can’t happen any too soon for me.
The fact of the matter is that people were told by climate scientists and the IPCC to expect milder, less snowy winters. Therefor any increasing trend of winter snow and cold is inconsistent with their garbage – especially when they tell us we just had the ‘hottest decade evaaaaaah’ etc.
“The true believers will dismiss this as being consistent with Climate Change.”
Strangely enough, it’s also consistent with no climate change. Go figure.
Now, now, all you deniers. A heat wave is positive proof of AGW. Contrary to your beliefs a cold wave is also positive proof of AGW – it is not proof of any kind of cooling! As for snow? Snow is a thing of the past. Our children do not know what snow is. That white stuff you see all around is not snow. And you are just making it up anyway. Compare the model results to reality and you will find the reality is just wrong. So suck it up and keep shovelling…
It isn’t REAL snow, it is ROTTEN snow . . .
You 2 just made me laugh. I just got in after shovelling a bunch of “rotten snow”. I was muttering those (and worse) very words.
So if this is an el-Nino year (albeit a very weak one) what will la-nina bring next year?
And here are our friends at the Independent. They need to get in touch with Viner again and ask him what went wrong?
The Scottish ski industry was doomed I tells ya. Here is Viner.
In 2010 the CairnGorm Mountain ski centre in the Highlands will be closed for the day – because of too much snow. I feel for Viner.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8460442.stm
Must be the Koch brothers who have bought up all those machines that produce “snow” in movies, and conspired to send them all over the world.
Pretty mild start to summer here in Perth Australia. Couple of days just under 40C (104F) but no consecutive hot days yet and we haven’t hit 40C yet either. Last couple of summers we had already had consecutive days over 40C by now.
Brrrr. It’s only snowing lightly here today. [sarc on] Sure glad I cancelled my European holiday! [sarc off]
I love the smell of cold in the morning and the sight of snow covering palm trees and cacti; it reminds me of solar minimums.
I don’t mind a bit of snow, It’s the swarms of locusts, plagues of frogs and water turning to blood I get annoyed with.
meaning there seems to be a tendency for people to be attracted to disaster, in the movies and in these green type issues.
It is also interesting g to note that the bible even mentions extreme weather, like killer hailstorms and 7 years of severe drought, and severe flooding. These things just didn’t happen until AGW caused extreme weather in the last few years. Biggest clue, the bible is a myth. They couldn’t know these things in antiquity, since it didn’t happen. We didn’t leave “the Garden Of Eden” until 1979. That is what I have been told.
+1
BTW the weather bureau is admitting to -2C in Rome, rather a long way from the -8 mentioned in the article. And no mention of snow – just sunshine. Sounds like they’re on the same programme as the US and Australia.
Just over a year ago, Jerusalem recorded the heaviest snowfall since records began 135 years ago.
http://iceagenow.info/2013/12/jerusalem-breaks-134-year-old-snowfall-record/
Cairo was covered in snow for the first time in 112 years.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/cairo-snow-egyptian-capital-sees-2923418
“For the first time in almost 20 years, cities such as Palermo woke up under a white blanket.”
‘“These are the same conditions that were experienced during the Dalton and Maunder Minimums,” says David.’
both statements are true. the second quote does not say “..conditions that were only experienced during…”. tsk, tsk, tsk.
the point is of course the predictions of global warming and the government mandates to end the use of fossil fuels ignore the facts that it is going to be very hard to survive cold winter weather when there is no wind and your solar panels are covered in snow. you can only burn the furniture for so long.
and according to the climate guessers, we are going to experience MORE extreme weather with global warming, so we will need to be even more prepared for snow and cold.
time to break out the snowlar panels.
Another great business opportunity. Snow removal equipment for those delicate solar panels. A great addition to your windmill removal service.
Are they still looking for their extreme weather caused by global warming?
Windmill removal opportunity here
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/we-dont-need-no-479.html#comments
We have have a sucky winter in Waterloo so far, probably because of that vague El Nino, now departing. I am going back to Mongolia where they know what a proper winter should be like.
For those who like it warmer, Java is a good choice. In winter it drops as low as 26 C. Obama’s mother had the good sense to move there to get away from the dreary weather in Hawaii.
It’s been easy to spot the people committed to the idea of a man-controlled climate. They just automatically mention vortex in conjunction with cold weather. I’m just not up on whether simultaneous cold weather on two continents an ocean apart is still a vortex, let alone proof that mankind will cook itself and the whole world along with it.
Maybe we’ve been fighting the CAGW hype the wrong way.
If we all started watching the SyFy channel, their ratings would go up.
If their ratings went up, they’d start making even more made for TV movies.
If they started making more SyFy movies, they’d need more writers.
If they needed more writers, maybe the CAGW pushers would stop feeding at the public trough and go out and find a real job?
“If” to the fourth power?
Gunga Din, your qualified to be a climate modeller.
“If” to the fourth power?
Gunga Din, you’re qualified to be a climate modeller.
Or writing commercials for Geico? 😎
We moved just south of the tropics in 2012, to escape the coming cold.
My advice – if you hesitate, the tricked will become a stampede – warm countries like Australia will be forced to close the gate to new arrivals.
The decision you make today, in the next few years, will affect your entire family.
Eric… I worked for the Australian military in 2004-5. There was quite a bit of hassle to get permission to work in Australia then. I guess it is easy if you are from one of the Commonwealth countries.
I bought land in the south during the 1990’s for that very reason. I worry I may have not bought far enough south. And that was my completely independent research from the 1970’s. (not because the fear of current global cooling craziness) There has to be a run up in temps before a sudden cool down. It wasn’t time. I didn’t know which solar cycle would become quite. The last one, this one or the next one or two, but it certainly quieted down right on time. It’s not entirely predictable or the extent, it rhymes more than repeats exactly. It could be a lot colder or not, but some sort of cool down is certainly possible. According to some on here the formula is absolutely true on GW, so by them, if nothing else, real temps have already dropped by 0.5 C. The co2 has gone up and the temps didn’t hit the high end of the models. Either way, AGW is invalid because something else is over riding the input of co2.
While the rest of the Northern hemisphere gets lucky with the white stuff, we here near the west coast of North America continue to wait for NOAA/CPC to get beyond this point:
“ENSO-neutral conditions continue.
Positive equatorial sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies continue across most of the Pacific Ocean.
There is an approximately 65% chance that El Niño conditions will be present during the Northern Hemisphere winter and last into the Northern Hemisphere spring 2015. “.
Its been 9 or 10 months since they started this watch Time to take up watching paint dry for enhanced excitement.
Here in Oslo, Norway (the capital), it’s a perfectly normal winter. We had a white Christmas with some snow, but nothing unusual. It’s almost all melted now after a couple of mild days. That ski resort is, after all, in the mountains.
I’m sure the snow in Palermo is exceptional. The snow in Norway doesn’t seem to be.
27 km polar vortex, the forecast for January 5th.
http://oi59.tinypic.com/2n1zz0i.jpg
exquisite, but chilly Going to get to wear my new balaclava and cyclist goggles on my walk for next few days . . .
Always worth bearing in mind that the atmospheric pressure up there is around 1/2 lb per square inch.
I remind you that the wind speed reaches the 290 km / h.
The temperature at a height of about 27 km.
Another cold blast – for Italy, Greece and North Africa – is forecast for Monday. According to the Met Office, that is, and we all believe the Met Office:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/surface-pressure/#?tab=surfacePressureColour&fcTime=1420412400
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