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Central Spain records temperatures of -25°C after snowstorm
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#22A few days ago, someone posted a blog post here on HN [1] explaining the phenomenon which causes this: https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/polar-vortex-co... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25713704
As I recall, many comments there were very dismissive. I wonder if that senrinent will change.
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#23So "Day after tomorrow" is the SF film that came true?
No. It sometimes gets very cold in the mountains.
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#24Global warming at its finest.
You can't have gone the past couple decades without anyone pointing out there's a difference between weather and climate, so I'm assuming you understand the difference but choose to ignore it in hopes that there will be people ignorant enough to believe you.
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#25>This woman in Madrid was doing her best to deal with the icy conditions on Monday No... not hot water to melt the ice and then have it freeze again.
It was comical, but also sad, seeing people doing that in middle Georgia (US state, not country) a few years back when we had an unusual (for the area) cold spell with a lot of ice. Very few had scrapers and brushes for their cars to clear them so I was cleaning a lot of neighbors' cars while my own car was warming up.
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#26Cold-blooded Canadian here, so forgive me for asking - is this highly unusual?
Spain almost never sees degrees below 0°C [1]. [1] https://www.climatestotravel.com/climate/spain
Spain has very different climates. I live only 30 kms away from the cost in the North of Spain and temperatures of -4 or -5 C are quite common in the winter. Some times we even have -10 C. So temperetures bellow zero are definitely common here.
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#27Cold-blooded Canadian here, so forgive me for asking - is this highly unusual?
Spain almost never sees degrees below 0°C [1]. [1] https://www.climatestotravel.com/climate/spain
In the north it’s completely normal to have sub zero temperatures in the winter. My hometown doesn’t have a particularly high altitude (650m, i.e. not in the mountains) and the average low for January is below zero.
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#28In the mountains, at about 3k feet or 1k meters elevation. Yes, the headline is quite misleading. I expect more from the BBC . From the article: > The temperature plunged to -25C (-13F) in Molina de Aragón and Teruel, in mountains east of Madrid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molina_de_Arag%C3%B3n > Elevation 1,065 m (3,494 ft) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruel > Elevation 915 m (3,002 ft)
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#29Global warming at its finest.
I know you're being snarky, but it actually IS likely a result of anthropogenic climate change! The north polar region is warming much faster than most places on the globe. Without its usual thick mass of ice, the region isn't cold enough to sustain the usual "polar vortex." Global models have been predicting for weeks that the vortex would split, and a lobe of very cold air would spin off over Europe, causing record cold temps.
The debates are over and we are already living with the consequences of burning up so much fossil fuel. But your snark is, uh, really funny! Ha ha!
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#30Cold-blooded Canadian here, so forgive me for asking - is this highly unusual?
... and we wonder why so many Canadians move down south to California or Florida. Even cold-blooded reptiles like basking in the sun once in a while.
Yeah I am one of those cold blooded Canadians. Weird thing is if you look at what's going in Canadian real estate, the shitty weather is not reflected in price at all.
Weather and the high cost of living in all the major Canadian cities (compared to the average tech income) were the two main reasons wife and I decided to move down South. Don't regret it for a moment.