Snow in France and it's almost May? Mais oui, in Normandy!

TheLocal.fr ^ | 30 April 2018 14:43 CEST+02:00

[Olog-hai]

The weather in France has been very varied in recent weeks, but nobody could have expected snow on April 30^th.

Many residents of the northern French region of Normandy woke up on Monday to find a considerable layer of snowfall on their rooftops and cars.

The mercury dropped to around zero in many parts of the historical region, with the departments of Eure and Seine-Maritime registering the lowest temperatures.

In the city of Rouen, the wind chill made it feel like a frosty –5°C in the early hours of the morning.

It may have only been a couple of centimeters of snow on average, but flabbergasted residents have taken to social media to share their best pictures and video of the surprise snowfall. …

[Rashputin]

2008
“the entire North ‘polarized’ cap will disappear in 5 years.”
Algore

[beethovenfan]

Well, that just PROVES global warming! (sarc)

[MUDDOG]

the bus tour I was on was in the Scottish Highlands

On the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.

[mass55th]

The day we stopped to view Loch Lomond, it was encased in a deep fog. When we got to Cornwall, the view of St. Michael’s Mount was also obscured by fog.

[rurgan]

Global warming is a hoax.

The media and scientists have been screaming global warming for 40 years. There’s been no warming.

The Sun’s solar cycle controls the climate not anything man made.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

If they had this kind of weather back during D-Day, June 6, 1944, they would have had to land the 10th Mountain Division at Normandy.

[dp0622]

What a cool post. Thanks :)

[aquila48]

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[dp0622]

LOL

Hey, NJ. :)

I’m on Staten Island.

Those three bridges to NJ cost a bundle when I see my sisters!

[littleharbour]

Weren’t they a tad busy chasing the Krauts through the mountains of Italy? 🤔

[MUDDOG]

Cornwall and the Highlands — Celtic territory.

One of those DNA testing ancestry websites has “Irish, Scottish, and Welsh” as a single category, but I have to think the DNA is different between Highlands and Lowlands Scotland. You could validly lump the Highlands with Ireland, but I’d think the Lowlands would be more like “English” (one of the other categories).

[mass55th]

You may be right, and Nordic DNA in all those areas I’d bet.

[daniel1212]

The other question is, why is it that when we have higher than noraml temps it seem to be widely broadcast,, but try Googling "april 2018 below normal temp" (without quotes) during the last 7 day period and tell me what come up with, versus "february 2018 above normal temp" from Feb. 22 to March 1.

For the record, I only found the one report for the former, and that was by searching during the last 24 hours:

Ryan | weather.us on Twitter: "April 2018 is in the bag. Lower 48 ... https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/991341763255263232

45 mins ago - April 2018 is in the bag. Lower 48 temperatures were anomalously cold across much of the central & eastern USA. Monthly temp of 48.5°F is more than 3°F below the last 30-years average. Coolest April since 1997 (47.5°F) and almost 5°F cooler than last year (53.2°F).pic.twitter.com/JL8faZuVSS. 8:41 AM - 1 May 2018.