Snow In Rome, Riviera; 220 Die In EU Freeze

Started by dsnope, 02/04/2012 03:49AM
Posted 02/04/2012 03:49AM | Edited 02/04/2012 04:02AM Opening Post
Disclaimer: Weather is not climate.

And yes, the climate alarmists are blaming this deep freeze on global warming. Amazing:

It’s going to get much colder. So far 70 people have frozen to death in Central Europe, but this is only the start of the effects of global warming: The less summertime ice coverage there is in the Arctic, the higher the probability is for Arctic cold in the following winter in Munich, Dresden, Potsdam, Warsaw or Kiev. That’s the result of a study from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Ocean Sciences.” (klimaretter.de )

I turned on the tube today and they showed tourists in Rome with snow piled on their heads and a good accumulation on the ground. I didn't know it ever snowed in Rome.

Feb. 3, 20.00h: Killer cold wave death toll now up to 220!
101 in Ukraine — 24 in Romania — 17 in Czech Republic — 11 in Slovakia — 64 in Russia – no end in sight!
http://www.bild.de/news/inland/kaeltewelle/killer-kaelte-friert-europa-ein-schnee-22431978.bild.html

Minus 30 degrees in Poland, 50 centimeters of snow in Istanbul and cut off villages in Serbia: Bibbert Europe, Europe freezes. From Ukraine up to Italy, the whole continent is a small freezer. The Siberian cold brought the death already 220 people. And an end to the cold spell is not in sight!

The worst, it has met the Ukraine. 101 People fell victim to killer cold. Most were homeless. They lived on the street and are at erfroren minus 33 degrees. More than 1200 people are treated for frostbite in hospitals.

What do I need to know when it's this cold?

Now, the Government has responded and established 3000 emergency shelters across the country. The problem: Many beneficiaries know nothing of the offers.

In the capital Kiev, the foods are scarce, because many roads are impassable. No more trucks come through with ice and snow.

But other European countries holding the killer cold in the claws: in Romania, 24 people were killed in Poland 17, Czech Republic 11, in the Slovakia at least two people in France a. In Russia, the authorities registered in January alone already over 64 Kälteopfer.

Siberia holds the cold record: "CNN" reported that were measured in some cities minus 40 degrees.

The Balkans also suffers from the Arctic temperatures.

Rescue workers described the situation as very serious in Serbia. On the border with Montenegro it's snowing for weeks continuously.

Cooling free in Schwanenwede (Lower Saxony)

Because the heater failed in the primary school of the town, all 180 students were allowed to go home.

Villages are cut off from the outside world, sink into the snow. Helicopters provide the inhabitants in continuous operation with food and medicines.

This help came too late for six people. They died in the Serbia ice Chamber.

In Bucharest, there are problems with the heating system. The inhabitants of the Romanian capital city jitter at up to minus 30 degrees in their homes. In many homes, the heaters fell out overnight, because the gas pressure in the lines died down.

People in bitterly cold weather freeze in Bosnia, Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria and the Slovakia.

Two people in the killer cold died in Magdeburg: A homeless man (55) erfror at night on a road. A renter was on the way to the doctor killed, he is apparently frozen.

In Lehrte (Lower Saxony) erfror a pensioner (69) on a country lane. He was overthrown on the way to the nursing home.

Germany experienced so far coldest night this winter. Especially in Saxony and Thuringia, she beat sibirisch to cold.

In Bad Elster, in the Vogtlandkreis district, Saxony, the thermometer slid even minus 23.6 degrees. Minus 26.4 degrees were measured in German new village (Saxony, Germany).

"It remains cold for the time being." "Also a low over the Baltic Sea brings snow something to Northern Germany," said Dorothy Pätzold from the German weather service.

Bibber-Winter has even southern Europe in its icy grip: snow on Corsica, negative levels in Athens and the coldest week for 27 years in Italy.

Up to 15 cm of new snow is expected in Rome on the night of Saturday. Already Friday, students got cold-free.

Tuscany is sinking in the snow: the electricity failed in many households, roads are impassable. "The situation is particularly critical," said the head of civil protection of Franco Gabrielli.

In the North of Italy 600 passengers had to endure seven hours in an unheated train. The killer cold freeze brakes and switches, the train had to stop on the track.

Where else in France tourists sunbathe, you can now build snowmen: the island of Corsica and the coastal regions of var and Alpes-Maritimes are covered with thick snow.

Also Istanbul is known not just as a winter sports venue. The Turkish metropolis is less than 50 centimeters thick snow. Public life is paralyzed.

For days, the South-Eastern of Turkey suffers from heavy snowfalls. Again and again, roads are buried by avalanches.

In the village of Secmen, an avalanche buried a home among themselves. A woman died. Neighbors rescued her husband and their two children from the rubble of the House.

Temperatures throughout the country increased to Spain only to no more than five degrees. For Friday to Sunday was a Temperatursturz up on predicted minus 10 degrees in the mountains even minus 13 degrees.

Europe bibbert further, an end to the cold spell is not in sight.

"The icy winter weather remains days us also in the next", said the meteorologist, Hans-Werner Voss, of the German weather service.
Posted 02/04/2012 04:03AM #1
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