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A high-pressure front from Siberia is gradually conquering Europe, bringing about the first (and hopefully last) severe cold wave of this winter. In Eastern Europe some people have already frozen to death. Temps are expected to plunge to -5 to -10°F in Germany and elsewhere by the end of the week. Even here in Portugal we are expecting night temps ob below 32°F, poor palm trees...
GFS has min windchills around -20C (negative single digits F) for Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning in Paris. For example this lovely map for Friday morning:
Sounds pretty frigid for eastern Europe but for my part of the world at least it doesn't look like anything that doesn't happen every now and again really, the 'severe Siberian cold' with ice days we were supposed to get in London has been downgraded to a few days of highs around 2C and lows of -4C. A typical European temperature profile on an cold easterly spell:
Yeah ben, but that's the London forecast - surrounding areas will probably be a lot colder
BBC South East is showing cold City Centre temperatures for this week
No doubt, but after the cold spells and other once-a-century sort of weather we've had the past few years and all the hype on TWO I was expecting something a bit more remarkable, i.e. city centre highs around -3, lows around -8/-10 and decent snowfall. We'll see.
Britain and even more so Ireland are always milder.
Exactly, which is why after having seen what these easterly spells are like in places like Germany and Poland I can't get excited about the half-hearted typical 0C/-5C temperatures we get here unless there's some sort of record to be broken. London and snow don't go well together anyway!
Wow, if you want to escape the cold then go to Iceland!
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