Sweden hit by 'unusually low' temperatures
Published: 11 Mar 13 08:28 CET | Print version
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Temperatures in Sweden are ten degrees Celsius colder than usual at this time of year, with experts predicting that the "unusually low" thermometer readings are likely to stick around for the week.
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The mercury dropped as low as -20C in Stockholm on Sunday night, and -22C in some parts of Dalarna in central Sweden. While these two areas were among the worst hit, the chill was felt across the whole country.
"Only Munka-Ljunby in north-western Skåne (southern Sweden) recorded higher then zero, but not by much - just 0.2C," wrote Sweden's weather agency SMHI on its website.
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Experts have suggested that the winter chill wasn't just a one-off, either.
"We'll have below-freezing temperatures even during the day time for the whole week," Linnea Rehn, meteorologist at SMHI, told the TT news agency.
After the week is over, Rehn predicted that the weather should reflect something more like spring.
"It will be milder by then, especially in southern Sweden," she said.
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We'll I can't gripe about this place. Just need to leave. Nonetheless, I warn people do not come here. The winters are dark and long and the weather is consistently below 0 between October till April.
(1 of my good deeds of the day accomplished:-)
How can you not love it? :)
Stll there are too many people who refuse to admit the occurence and prefer to call these crazy weather patterns as "coincidence" or "freak event".
How many decades of freak events are needed before people finally admit that they are not coincidences but have come to stay?
Where did you get the idea the American Midwest is in a 3 year drought. In 2011 there were record floods in the the Missouri River watershed all the way from North Dakota to Missouri which includes the states of South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska.
But I do admire the way warmists have replaced "global warming" with "climate change."
What a great theory. No matter what happens: flood, drought, hot,or cold it's "climate change."
I guess the idea about a 3-year drought came from the several comments I have seen from local residents about recent snow storms in the US. These residents had been hoping that all the added snow melting would relieve the the 3-year drought...
Flooding is also not precipitation. You can have flooding happening hundreds of miles donstream from the actual source of the rainfall and it will be isolated in its effect. If there is a drought the flooding won't help relieve it. It will only drench the area immediately around the rivers.
#6 an isolated cold spell in March is not freak weather, that is true. However, it is closer to January temperatures instead of March. Still, not all that alarming if it's a one-off, but taken into context in the past 4-5 years or so one can start seeing a pattern emerging: 2 winters in a row with arctic-level temperatures, more recent flooding events, more frequent and stronger storms, etc...