Cold wave over Europe

[clerck de bonk]

46cm of snow in southern Finland(more than in Lapland!) and of course it's a record this time of the year...

 

[Green_Manalishi]

Since this thread is dedicated to the recent weather pattern in Europe, I will leave a update from my corner of the world, although it is not cold related, but the other way.

Portugal suffered also from the cold snap, this past weeks, but starting from this weekend we are having unusual warm weather, 18º to 20º ºC at night, it even smells like summer and spring outside, totally surreal.

 

[Infiniteness]

Things are getting pretty intense in the Midwest and East part of the US too. Check out this video of a snow storm in Sarnia, Ontario, looks like the North Pole to me! According to the truck driver they were stuck in the storm for more then 30+ hours!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocBwjeclzxk

 

[Juba]

I'm from Dalmatia coastal part of Croatia, in last 30 years we had snow 3 times but that was soft & moist snow and it last less than couple of hours before melted down, that kind of snow never made problems to sensitive Mediterranean vegetation. In last couple weeks we had snow for 2 times and it did not melt away but instead it looks like frozen rock, snow together with strong Northern and Eastern winds made Mediterranean Dalmatia to look like Northern part of US during the winter.

Take look on: http://www.croatiantimes.com/news/General_News/2010-10-14/14384/Wrap_up_warm_for_a_polar_winter,_Croatia!

http://www.nezavisne.com/novosti/ex-yu/Snijeg-na-Peljescu-Korculi-Mljetu-73912.html

http://www.dayline.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16635&Itemid=195

http://www.24sata.info/vijesti/regija/50595-Hrvatska-Snijeg-Peljescu-Korculi-Mljetu.html

http://www.e-balkan.info/vijesti/hrvatska/3603-snijeg-pao-na-peljecu-koruli-i-mljetu.html

Unusual occurrences happened in last 2 years, because we tent to have snow annually, in stead once in every 10 to 12 years. See more on:

http://www.find-croatia.com/blog/snow-in-dalmatia/

http://www.croatiantimes.com/index.php?id=2796

http://dalje.com/en-croatia/photo--snow-cover-turns-dalmatia-white/235298

 

[shijing]

Things are getting pretty intense in the Midwest and East part of the US too.

I've got a friend who just moved to London from Maine last month, and he told me last week that as bad as things are in the UK, it was a whole lot worse in New England when he left. It doesn't seem to be a good winter to be on either side of the Atlantic, though -- I'm feeling some "survivor's guilt" here in the southwest US where the temperature just dropped from 80 degrees F to 65 (27 degrees C to 18), so I'm thinking of all of you who are getting snowed in!

 

[Jacques]

Things are getting pretty intense in the Midwest and East part of the US too.

I've got a friend who just moved to London from Maine last month, and he told me last week that as bad as things are in the UK, it was a whole lot worse in New England when he left. It doesn't seem to be a good winter to be on either side of the Atlantic, though -- I'm feeling some "survivor's guilt" here in the southwest US where the temperature just dropped from 80 degrees F to 65 (27 degrees C to 18), so I'm thinking of all of you who are getting snowed in!

Hi Shijing,

Don't feel embarrassed about that, we do have quite the same weather here, except that instead of going from 27 degrees C to 18, it goes from minus 18 degrees C to minus 27.

See almost the same thing. It is just the sign that is different.

 

[shijing]

Don't feel embarrassed about that, we do have quite the same weather here, except that instead of going from 27 degrees C to 18, it goes from minus 18 degrees C to minus 27.

See almost the same thing. It is just the sign that is different.

Well, that makes me feel better -- I guess :D

 

[rylek]

Well after a week or so of quite warm weather around 7 degrees C the deep freeze is back in Scotland.

Scots face more Arctic weather conditions

Parts of Scotland are experiencing more Arctic weather as cold air moves south across the country.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-12006323

 

[manitoban]

Don't feel embarrassed about that, we do have quite the same weather here, except that instead of going from 27 degrees C to 18, it goes from minus 18 degrees C to minus 27.

See almost the same thing. It is just the sign that is different.

 

[JonnyRadar]

See almost the same thing. It is just the sign that is different.

We're getting about the same in the northern US... at night it hovers between 0 and negative 5-10 Fahrenheit... that's about -18 to -23 Celsius... yesterday was freeze-your-face-and-nosehair cold...

 

[Gawan]

See almost the same thing. It is just the sign that is different.

Thanks for that! :D

Also here in Germany the cold and winter spell holds on. Also some communities are already lacking money for winter road clearance and it could get difficult, if the winter holds on.

The myth of ruthlessly efficient Germany always battling the elements so much better than Britain has been smashed by a new cold weather front.

Not a single train ran without delays in the whole of the country.

In the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the west there were some 700 accidents on the autobahns during 12 hours of snowfall. And even international airports like Dusseldorf had to shut down on Monday night as the snow blew in.

[...]

“It is absolute chaos here,“ an Osnabrueck police spokesman said.

On the A9 autobahn leading into Munich the traffic jam into the city reached 18 miles long. In Nuremberg a sports hall and stadium were closed due to the build up of ice and snow on the roof.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338496/Snow-brings-Germany-near-standstill-theyre-coping-better-us.html?ITO=1490#

The comments on the page are also quite interesting, some talked about the sun (not that active), the gulf stream and oil disaster and questioned also Global Warming and some talked about the opposite.

 

[Windmill knight]

Check out these images:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12006012

'Ohio lighthouse covered in ice after US arctic blast'

 

[dantem]

Here in central Italy the snow began to shoot last Saturday first on the coast side (Eastern/Adriatic Sea) and then here on the mountain's on monday. Usually is the other way round! Now the temperature in the mountain's is around -5/-8 Celsius at night and a +3 high during the day, so the little snow that dropped was very icy, no more than 4 inches.

It's very very chilly at last :/

 

[Laura]

We had this today:

http://addins.kttc.com/blogs/weather/2008/12/what-was-that

 

[Windmill knight]

I'd like to add that during today's arrival of the new arctic wave in the UK, we saw the temperature drop 5 degrees in the lapse of three hours only - during the day.