>Europe abnormally snow covered (and cold!)

Written by on February 17, 2010 in Rest of Europe with 1 Comment

>From AccuWeather.com

Map of Heavy Snow Cover in Europe
Updated: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:55 AM
It’s two months into the winter, and much of Europe has become mantled in unusually deep snow cover.
Snow cover of a foot or more, while common each winter in the Russian heartland, northern Ukraine and Belarus, has stretched westward over the plains of Poland into northern Germany this winter.
As of early this week, snow depth was near 10 inches as far west as Hamburg, a city that often has bare ground at the dead of winter. About a foot of snow buried Berlin with 20-inch depths registered widely along the Baltic shore.
Fresh light snowfall on Tuesday bolstered a 21-inch snow depth at Warsaw, and in the Czech capital, Prague, snow lay 10 inches deep.
Other areas of deep snow spread along and near mountains such as the Alps, the Carpathians, the Transylvanian Alps and the higher ranges of the Balkan Peninsula. Unusually deep snow reached onto lowlands in Romania and northern Bulgaria.
To the west, snow cover tapered to an edge from Netherlands to central and southern France.
As for the United Kingdom and Ireland, the abnormally widespread and deep snow cover has all but melted with significant leftovers found only on hilltops.
By AccuWeather.com’s Senior Meteorologist Jim Andrews

Link: http://www.accuweather.com/news-story.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&article=8

An interesting piece which once again backs my ideas nicely about the “bigger picture” and what’s going on. Everyhting has been in place that suggests this month is colder than many believe…

Incidentally, it’s a beautiful clear morning here and the shounds of scrapping car windscreens echoe across the icy horizon. My thermometer is reading 23 degrees and there’s a severe frost out there!

Thanks for reading.
-Mark

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  1. Anonymous says:

    >I've heard a theory that the ice age is coming again? What should we do? I have been stocking my cupboards with soup, beans and other things to stave off the hunger.

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