It seems that while the southern hemisphere is experiencing a massive heat wave, the northern hemisphere is experiencing a massive cold spell with lots of snow. Just last week we had temperatures at -20°C then yesterday it warmed to +10°C, a 30° change in just a few days. We have had the most snowy January in ages where before most of it melted yesterday there was accumulations in the middle of the yard of 50 cm and snow piles from shoveling at 1.5 m.
SEVERE WEATHER: POLAR FREEZE IN SPAIN, ALERT IN SIX REGIONS (ANSAmed) - MADRID, FEBRUARY 6 - Half of Spain lies under a pall of snow after a freezing cold front hit the peninsula. The state meteorological office is forecasting that the polar conditions will continue throughout the weekend. And a state of alert has already been declared in six areas: Madrid, Asturie, Cantabria, Paesi Baschi, Castilla y Leon and Castilla-La Mancha, with twelve mountain passes closed in the centre and north of the country. According to the general office for traffic, heavy snowfalls have disrupted traffic on state and secondary road networks in Avila, Barcelona, Salamanca, Segovia and Santa Cruz di Tenerife. The worst disruption has occurred in the ring of suburbs around Madrid where snow has slowed traffic on the ring roads linking the capital to areas in the south-west. Nonetheless, the effects of the severe weather are not on the same scale as the disruption caused by a thunderstorm one month ago, which brought traffic to a standstill and closed Madrid's airport. (ANSAmed) 2009-02-06 13:18 http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/[email protected] Jerry ________________________________ From: Harry Wyeth <[email protected]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Cc: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 8, 2009 3:11:30 AM Subject: [USMA:42944] Aussie fires I am sure we all send our sympathies to our Aussie friends, including Pat, for the terrible fires they are experiencing. And I see that their temps hit 47º--same as we had in Northern California two summers ago. If you have never been that hot--well, it is really, really hot. It made our swimming pool hit 34º at one point. Carry on, Mate. See: http://apnews.myway.com//article/20090208/D9677UMO0.html HARRY WYETH Pat Naughtin wrote: > Dear All, > > As I advised yesterday we were in for a hot dry day with low humidity > yesterday; the prediction was for 44 °C. It turned out that the temperature > at the Avalon airport near Geelong was the hottest place in the state. The > temperature there reached 46.9°C at 15:00 with winds gusting between 10 km/h > and 60 km/h. See http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDV60801/IDV60801.94854.shtml
