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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Sdgla who wrote (914269)1/15/2016 12:30:04 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (2) of 1576163
 
Those extremely low temps added up to the warmest Dec. ever.

December 2015 broke a string of long-standing heat records in Western Europe


By Justin Grieser January 5


European surface temperature anomalies in December 2015. (weatherbell.com)
December 2015 was off-the-charts warm – but not just in the eastern U.S. and Canada. In Europe, at least five countries had their warmest ever December, including Germany, France, and the U.K. In many cases, records fell by several degrees.

[ Washington, D.C. obliterates record for warmest December]

The early winter warmth was so persistent that cherry blossoms in Berlin, Germany, were blooming around Christmas. In the Alps, iconic ski resorts from France to Austria struggled to stay open from lack of snow. And in the northern U.K., the balmy weather was accompanied by record-setting rainfall and disastrous flooding.

The U.K. had its warmest December on record, with temperatures running 7.4 degrees (4.1ºC) above long-term averages*. It was so bizarrely warm that the Met Office said temperatures “were closer to those normally experienced during April or May.”...

washingtonpost.com
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