Europe Hammered by Winter, Is North America Next?
Feb 16, 2012: For the first half of this year's winter, the big news was warm temperatures and lack of snow. Ski resorts were covered in bare dirt, while January temperatures in southern California topped July highs.Then, out of the blue, Europe got clobbered: Over the past two weeks, temperatures in Eastern Europe have nose-dived to -30 degrees Celsius (-22 degrees Fahrenheit). Blizzards and the bone-chilling cold have resulted in the deaths of over 550 people so far, with rooftop-high snow drifts trapping tens of thousands of villagers in their homes and cutting off access to entire towns. It has even snowed as far south as North Africa.
This map shows temperature anomalies for Europe and western
Russia from January 25 to February 1, 2012, compared to temperatures for
the same dates from 2001 to 2011. The anomalies are based on land
surface temperatures observed by the MODIS instrument on NASA’s Terra
satellite. [more]
MORE: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/16feb_deepfreeze/
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