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The record cold spring in the UK. Blizzards in March, feet of snow with 50mph winds. Really delayed spring, hit farming badly, killed all the new lambs, etc.. No leaves on the trees until late May/early June here..... feet of snow lining the roads in early April...
July was warmest since 2006, but not notably so. It only just made the top 10 warmest Julies.
It's not snow, it is graupel and it only blanketed the easternmost suburbs like Madinaty, while the city and the airport only saw rain or a mix. 112 years it's a "guesstimate" made by a twitter user, but it is not correct; the last "real snowfall" on the city of Cairo happened in 1855, while in 1950, during an historic cold wave that covered the whole Lebanon and Cyprus with snow, it snowed in nearby Giza and, if I'm not wrong, few flakes were also seen in Alexandria and Cairo itself. It is still, however, an extremely exceptional event.
Worldwide? it has to be Haiyan's beatdown of the Phillipines.
In the U.S, it was probably the torrential rains and flooding in Colorado's Front Range.
Locally in Corvallis (OR) and the Willamette Valley, the yearlong dearth of rainfall and last week's snowstorm which brought more snow to Corvallis/Philomath than any other time since 1995.
It's not snow, it is graupel and it only blanketed the easternmost suburbs like Madinaty, while the city and the airport only saw rain or a mix. 112 years it's a "guesstimate" made by a twitter user, but it is not correct; the last "real snowfall" on the city of Cairo happened in 1855, while in 1950, during an historic cold wave that covered the whole Lebanon and Cyprus with snow, it snowed in nearby Giza and, if I'm not wrong, few flakes were also seen in Alexandria and Cairo itself. It is still, however, an extremely exceptional event.
Here's some of the most noteworthy events from the nordic countries.
Sweden sets all time mean wind speed record (169.2 km/h)
Denmark sets all time wind gust record (192km/h)
The heatwave in all of fennoscandia in late may was also pretty awesome. 30.5C in kevo (69.5N) 31th may. 31.7C (1th June). Numerous all-time record from sites with old time series were smashed.
Vardo (norway) records its first +10C mean in september (never happened before, measurements started 1829) which is a good deal warmer than the normal July average of 9.1C.
Nikkaloukta (swedish lapland) has one of the largest temperature fluctuations ever known in sweden: from -40.8C to 7.7C in 48 hours.
Bjuröklubb, in southern norrlands archipelago records +9,9C° this december. The earlier heat-record in december was 7.6C° from 1989. Measurements started 1879.
For me it will probably only be the cold March that sticks in the memory, late-March in particular. Where I was living in London at the time we broke the old record for the latest-ever ice day three times, going from 7th March to 25th March. Averaged nationally, it was one of those rare years where March is colder than any of the winter months, and it was colder than any winter month at all that we could manage between 1997 and 2010.
Since I moved back up north the run of 35 consecutive days with rainfall measured in Bingley in October-November deserves a mention, but the actual amounts were nothing unusual compared to famous wet months.
The heat wave in Northern Norway in May must be the top weather story in Norway. Even with more then 130 years of recordings, all-time high records were smashed by nearly 3C. Karasjok recorded 30.5C (almost 70N) in May, Narvik recorded 29.9C. Tana Bru in Finnmark recorded 30.6C, but this was not recognized as the weather station was new and gras was lacking. Monthly averages for May were also smashed for many stations. 1. june Nyrud in Finnmark recorded 30.7C.
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