Snowmageddon: What's behind extreme winter weather
- 16 December 2011 by Michael Le Page
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LAST winter, Florida got so cold that torpid iguanas fell from trees, pythons froze to death, crops were damaged and corals in the seas around the Florida Keys died in greater numbers than ever recorded before. Further north, heavy snowstorms caused chaos across much of the US.
Across the pond in the UK, it got pretty nippy too - and it stayed cold for much longer than usual. The average temperature of the country in December 2010 was -1 °C, well below the long-term December average of 4.2 °C. It was the second coldest December in central England since records began back in 1659. Here too, heavy snowfalls brought cars, trains and planes to a standstill.
This extreme weather followed on from similar conditions in parts of Europe, the US and Asia the winter before (2009-10) and, to a lesser extent, the winter before ...
Across the pond in the UK, it got pretty nippy too - and it stayed cold for much longer than usual. The average temperature of the country in December 2010 was -1 °C, well below the long-term December average of 4.2 °C. It was the second coldest December in central England since records began back in 1659. Here too, heavy snowfalls brought cars, trains and planes to a standstill.
This extreme weather followed on from similar conditions in parts of Europe, the US and Asia the winter before (2009-10) and, to a lesser extent, the winter before ...
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