Record high temperatures in Europe in April
Furdurmore, who woulda guessed...
"Climate change has come to Moscow. It may have snowed vindictively in mid-April, but as the winter ended officially, it was declared to have been the shortest and the warmest in 126 years. Only 28 centimetres of snow fell on the city, compared with the usual 35 to 40. Even then the white stuff lay on the ground for a mere 50 days, 80 days fewer than normal. Meteorologists dubbed the 70 consecutive days of above-freezing temperatures that stretched from November 13th to January 24th a 'thermal wave'." In December 35% of those polled complained that the unseasonably warm weather was dampening their mood; 26% reported the opposite.*
-- Economist, Moscow Briefing, May '07
* The other 39% reporting being "massively s#i+faced."
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Those snowfall figures don't quite look right. Are they saying that's what fell all year? Is so the had slightly less than 1 foot this year and normally have less than 2 ft. MFA
Yeah, dere's some phokked up weather out there...no sun for the 2nd consecutive day here AND i was rained on during my walk to the shuttle. Sunny San Diego? My phokking @ss!
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