The Coldest Winter for Many Years

So much for global warming! Amazing we are not hearing about this in the mainstream media. Click here for full story. Excerpt below:

In the beginning of December it came to my attention that the coming Winter might be colder than usual, during the previous month the Arctic Sea Ice area grew by almost 4 million Km2, the fastest build up ever recorded. Although still 1 million Km2 below the reference average, it meant a significant temperature drop in the Arctic. During the following days temperatures in Europe drop enough to set new energy consumption records in France and Spain. December of 2007 turned out to be the coldest month since 2000.

This colder than usual winter had already been forecast by some meteorologic agencies, but in the beginning of January an extremely acute forecast by the polemic meteorologist Piers Corbyn warned of abnormally cold temperatures for central Europe. As the month draws to a close, it is clear that such forecast was correct for everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere but central Europe.

During the first week of January temperatures as low as -15ºC were felt in Greece and Bulgaria. Some days later bitter cold and snow storms reached Central Asia with Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan being affected first. At latitudes under 40º, some places of Iran recorded temperatures of -25ºC. This would result in a series of Natural Gas supply cuts that would cascade as far as Greece, as reported earlier by Heading Out.

On the 11h of January it snowed in centre Baghdad, something that probably never happened during the XX century; during the same day it would snow in the north of Saudi Arabia. This abnormal weather has perdured across Central Asia; in Afghanistan more than 300 people have already died by cold or in consequence of avalanches.