The big story this week has been a wave of cold Arctic weather sweeping across Europe, Asia and North America. Heavy snow and thick ice hit northern China, the Koreas and India. Beijing had its heaviest snowfall for 59 years. A freeze in northern and eastern India killed about 200 people, although milder weather has arrived since.
In the US, new low temperature records were set in many regions, including many southern states. This weekend it could even snow in northern parts of Florida and there are fears of the freeze reaching the big orchard groves in the southern part of the state.
Europe is gripped by a severe freeze. Temperatures as low as minus 22C (-8F) have left 122 dead in Poland this winter, while in central Norway temperatures plummeted to minus 41C (-42F) on Wednesday. Temperatures in England dropped to minus 17C (1F) on Thursday and virtually the whole of the UK is covered in snow. This is becoming a vintage ski season, although several people have already died in avalanches in the Swiss Alps.
(Yes, that's Great Britain. )
Much of this upheaval is caused by unusually cold temperatures over the surface of the North Atlantic that have upset the normal balance of pressure systems. High-altitude jet stream winds have been shunted farther south than usual, leaving much of the northern hemisphere in the cold.
While one part of the globe shivers, other regions are basking in the sun. The Mediterranean, Alaska and northern Canada are unseasonably warm, and heatwaves are roasting Australia. Parts of the Pacific are 3C above average.
There is a redistribution of warm and cold air around different parts of the world — but the overall global temperature is staying much the same.
So how's the weather where you live at the moment?
Here in Manila we are experiencing very hot daytimes, and very cold nighttime (expecially past midnight), but it's supposed to be way cooler by this time of the year.
Here in Manila we are experiencing very hot daytimes, and very cold nighttime (expecially past midnight), but it's supposed to be way cooler by this time of the year.
i don't feel it
i feel like I'm melting all throughout the day and that is why it's hard for me to sleep
I've been visiting family in st. Louis for about 2 weeks now, and its about 7 degrees (F) outside right now...Its been ****ing cold all break, thank god im going back to california in a few days