An unusually unsettled summer is being experienced in
Middle Earth, particularly on New Zealand s South Island where substantial snow has blanketed the mountains over recent days and weeks.
There s a fresh accumulation of pow-pow on the peaks around
Queenstown this week, after conditions in the Lakes area allowed for flakes to settle.
Frigid polar air left Antarctica on Sunday, and it has lingered over Australasia ever-since. As reported by odt.co.nz, Weatherwatch says temperatures will continue to be down across New Zealand as a storm near Stewart Island slowly tracks eastwards, dredging up the cold. The forecaster elaborated, adding that temps would hold below average for the remainder of the week, with single-digit highs likely through parts of Otago and Southland.
Wed, 13 Jan 2021 12:00 UTC
Scientists claim to have found the missing link in the process that leads to an ice age on Earth.
Melting icebergs in the Antarctic are the key, say the team from Cardiff University, triggering a series of chain reactions that plunges Earth into a prolonged period of cold temperatures.
The findings have been published today in Nature from an international consortium of scientists from universities around the world.
It has long been known that ice age cycles are paced by periodic changes to Earth s orbit of the sun, which subsequently changes the amount of solar radiation that reaches the Earth s surface.
Tue, 12 Jan 2021 11:48 UTC
The south of France has suffered exceptionally chilly temperatures this winter, with reports calling it a winter like no other .
Woolly hats, coats, scarves and gloves are a strange sight along the Côte d Azur (aka the French Riviera), reports monaco-tribune.com, even at this time of year. Normally, a light jacket is all that is needed to keep warm under the winter sun, but temperatures at the close of 2020 and the during the first third of January 2021 have held a baguette-clasping 6 to 7 degrees Celsius below average.
The French Riviera is susceptible to two different types of cold, explains weather expert Paul Marquis in an article on francetvinfo.fr: Arctic maritime air comes from the North Pole, from the north-west it s a moist air, it s humid. Continental air comes from Russia it s much drier, and that is what we are experiencing along the coastline at the moment, says Marquis.
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