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Date: Wed Feb 23 2005 - 19:40:02 EST
February 23, 2005 5:34 p.m.
The last few days have been on the cold side of normal in much of
western Europe, thereby bucking the overall winter trends. What is
more, the cold has made for widespread snows where the white stuff is
an infrequent guest. Tuesday and Wednesday, snowfalls of 1 to 3
inches were widespread in United Kingdom, Ireland, France and
northern Spain. Highlands, though, picked up much higher amounts.
Locally heavy snow hit Slovakia Tuesday into Wednesday. Poprad,
at the foot of the Tatry Mountains, got a 16-inch dumping as of early
Wednesday afternoon.
Wednesday morning, with sub-zero cold holding sway, winds of 60
to 70 mph blasted Brevoort Island, near eastern Baffin Island,
Nunavut, Canada. Early morning wind chill was 40 to 45 degrees below
zero.
The first half of the week has brought the coldest weather since
early November to the ice cap of Antarctica. At Russia`s Vostok
station, respective low temperatures were -70, -69 and -72 degrees as
of Wednesday. For the same span of time at the Amundsen-Scott
station, South Pole, respective lows were -52, -55 and -57 degrees.
Indeed, since the start of the week, the temperature at the South
Pole has held between 50 and 57 degrees below zero.
High winds raking dry Argentinian Patagonia gusted between 60 and
65 mph early Wednesday.
For a second straight day, Ittoqqortoormiit (Scoresbysund),
Greenland, basked in highly abnormal, even freakishly, mild air on
Wednesday. This eastern town on the Greenland Sea reached 61 degrees
on Tuesday, a mark that was more than 50 degrees above average.
Wednesday's high of 43 degrees was also well above February's 9-degree
mean daily high. Even during the fully sunlit days of midsummer, the
average daily high isn't any higher than 45 degrees here.
Thunderstorms unloaded locally heavy rain on portions of Argentina
this midweek. In the far northwest, rainfall was 4.6 inches within 30
hours as of Wednesday morning at Tartagal. In the east and to the
south of Buenos Aires, twenty-four hour rainfalls ended Wednesday
morning were 3.4 and 2.4 inches, respectively, at Tres Arroyos and
Tandil. At Tres Arroyos, these downpours were higher than February's
mean rainfall which is 2.7 inches.
In Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday's high was 67 degrees whereas an
average day during this part of February would reach 50.
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