>All-time Record Low Nearly Reached in Europe

Written by on February 20, 2010 in Rest of Europe with 0 Comments

>Here is Jim Andrews of AccuWeather’s latest post which I find very interesting and want to share with you. Of course if your sick and tired of hearing, feeling and talking about cold weather, he also talks about heat too!

Link of the below post: http://www.accuweather.com/mt-news-blogs.asp?partner=rss&blog=Andrews&pgurl=/mtweb/content/Andrews/archives/2010/02/nearly_an_alltime_record_low_in_europe.asp

Europe as a whole has lately warmed following one of several far-reaching cold snaps to have happened this winter. However, as overall warming proceeded over the continent as a whole, the Russian Arctic (and Finland) waxed bitterly cold.
Khosedakhard, which lies in the far-northeast of Europe (which is not truly a continent but a subcontinent with arbitrary boundaries), has been at the heart of this late-week bitter cold. Early on Friday (0600 UTC), the temperature read -55.6C/-70F. I do not know if this was the low.
Wikipedia have that the lowest on record in Europe was -58.1C/-73F at Ust`Shchugor, Russia, which lies west of the Ural Mts and a few hundred km farther south.
Meanwhile, another cold spot on Friday would be Petrun, Russia, with -52.3C/-62F. The city of Vorkuta was as cold as -49.4C.
In Finland, the low on Sunday morning was -40.1C at Pudasjarvi.

–Warmth in Turkey:

I cannot recall having every plotted a map of snow cover for Turkey during a February day and finding no observed snow cover. It is one thing for Istanbul and the coasts to be snow-free, but such notorious iceboxes as Erzurum and Van?!?
A plot of temperature departure from normal for the first 19 days of February shows readings 1.5C to nearly 7C above normal–a substantial departure, indeed. Many sites are 4C to 5C above normal for the month thus far.

–Talk About Warm…

Marble Bar, Western Australia, has had three-straight days of 45C. Hottest of these was Saturday, with 46.4C/116F. Also on Saturday, Vioolsdrif, South Africa, topped out 44.5C/112F.

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