Sweden braces for more wild winter weather
Published: 16 Dec 09 13:56 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/23884/20091216/
Another blast of winter weather is set to barrel down across southern and eastern Sweden starting on Wednesday night, with strong winds and heavy snowfall reaching as far as the Baltic island of Gotland.
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According to SMHI, Gotland is likely to be hit with the worst of the storm, which is expected to dump 10 to 20 centimeteres of snow on the island, along with wind gusts of between 75 to 83 kilometres/hour.
“There may be a lot of problems, especially for the traffic situation. The gusts can lead to drifting and there is going to be a lot of snow in some areas,” SMHI meteorologist Anna Österman told the TT news agency.
SMHI is also warning people that the snow, in combination with high winds, may also cause problems for residents in Östergötland and Kalmar counties in Sweden’s southeast, as well as in Blekinge and Skåne counties in the south.
The agency has also issued a warning for gale force winds in the Skagerack and Kattegatt straits off of Sweden’s southwest coast.
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that or all the Gay priests fault:
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This will separate the Swedes who have ice-water mixed in their blood with those other Swedes who lack the same.
Past Winters in New England? Just a few days ago, a snow event crossed the United States and exited in Maine that set records of fallen snow and heights of drifts and of which left many universities closed, major Interstate Roadways closed and hundreds stranded, and at least 17 people dead.
I saw snow in NW Pennsylvania that would rival even that, and snow in the far North of Maine and into Quebec that would match and rival those just 12years ago. I have crossed country skied in Maine on snow, on groomed trails, that came up to a moose's neck.
Every age has snow and winter storm stories to relate, and some of those include crocuses blooming in January with the dire threat of winter's demise, but somehow winter comes back, as just now.
sure it's scary but for the love of god let it go! yes, it's becoming warmer... or maybe it isnt?
it's not like we can influence it much anyway because as we discover year after year, there is a lot more to earth than the dynamics we are already aware of.
Just look at the mess we create when we introduce a new species in a place it previously did not exist - it disrupts the entire food chain.
What next: Exclusive! - rain forecast in the rainforest. Sun in the Sahara?
And who translates this stuff? "barrel down"? Get a good thesaurus.
It is proven that global warming is a natural occurrence, yes, BUT, never in history before, roughly in the past 60 years, have we thrown so much crap into the atmosphere, cut down so much forest areas, over-farmed lands...Over populated the world...the list goes on and on...only in the past 60 years in the millions of years history of the earth.
My point is, global warming to a certain extent is natural, but what we're done in the past 60 years up until today has seriously screwed with that natural pattern. People will learn the hard way sooner or later, maybe even before you old folks of the local pass on.
Nah. My sis moved to New Zeeland a couple of years ago and they are under the ozone "hole" (actually the layer is just thinner). The effect is that the sun is markedly more harmful and you have to wear sunscreen or get burned quickly, even when already tanned.
They also have a higher percentage of skin cancer compared to when the layer was thicker.
(The hole moves though, sometimes it's over Australia, sometimes over Antarctica and sometimes over New Zeeland.)
As for the snow, it doesn't mean there's no global warming. As I've understood it the warming means that the weather gets more extreme.
Refer to the heavy downpours in august which has been regular in the last five to seven years or so which were not as intense in the 80's and 90's.
Likewise, the very warm weather with hardly any snow for all winter in 2008, compared with the cold and very long winter in 2006.
The changes are larger and more intense, as a result of the weather changes (whether natural or artificial).
What it means? Well, it costs society a lot of money since the effects of the weather gets more intense as well.
Means higher taxes, or you having to buy your own stuff (like a new roof for the house or car window for example).
Whether by taxes or increased private costs, we'll have to pay for it either way.
perception is not reliable when it comes to the global tempreture. Measuring it in itself is a very difficult thing, our planet is huge and humans only occupy a slice of it. I don't have a lot of faith with the data presented currently, let alone twisted/adjusted data.
I don't see how many people can be so sure about things that are this complex, it makes me skeptical intuitively.