Posted on 12/05/2006 12:27:21 PM PST by NormsRevenge
STOCLKHOLM (AFP) - While much of Sweden is usually gripped by freezing temperatures and heavy snow in December, the south of the country was enjoying its mildest start to the month since 1953, meteorologists told Swedish radio.
"We have daily average temperatures of between six and nine degrees (Celsius) in many places in the south of the country. That's five to eight degrees or more over the norm," Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) meteorologist, Lars Knutsson, told Sweden's national radio Sveriges Radio.
Stockholm reported on Friday temperatures of 11.1 degrees Celsius (52 degrees Fahrenheit), the capital city's highest readings since the 12.2 degrees recorded in 1953.
Meanwhile, Sweden's second city, Gothenburg, situated on the south west coast of the country, reported its warmest December temperature (11.0 degrees) since records began in 1859.
"The weather reminds me of early autumn rather than winter," Knutsson said.
The mild weather was expected to continue into December.
Snow that had fallen in central areas of the Scandinavian country such as Dalarna, Gaevleborg and Medelpad had partly melted, Knutsson said.
Sweden's three main cities -- Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmoe, all located in the south of the country -- also enjoyed record mild average temperatures in September, October and November, according to SMHI.
Is this 'global warming' or perhaps the Earth repositioning itself and tipping slightly on its axis? I don't think the scientists have considered the latter possibility. It would cause interesting climatic changes.
Uffdah
Venison
Methane Discharges are the culprits!
Banning Moose Turds is the answer!
You can't just say "Swedish Bikini Team" on Free Republic. You know the rules.
Work safe issues here.
Cripes, they are only talking about a couple days, as if a 5-day stretch is any evidence of global warming! WTF?
I don't want to get into the global warming debate here, but wasn't Winter 2005-06 one of the coldest in Northern Europe in the last century? Observations on the first five days of one month in one year in one small part of the globe (as this article provides) don't give us much of a basis for a confident inference about the issue. In other words, the article is essentially worthless to either proponents or opponents of the global warming hypothesis.
you said it.
Thanks man, I owe you one.
there IS no such thing as man-made global warming. (correction....human-made)
It's 15 today, and that is honest degrees, none of this denatured Celcic.
Since the distance from central Sweden to southern Sweden is 600 miles - that Beatles song better be at least 10 hours long! And that's at 60 mph the entire trip.
This is pretty funny if you really think about it. I mean, we are only talking about five days here!!
Meanwhile, next door, Norway has been snow bound since October. Yet another not-global-warming-non-story.
What happened to the MWP, did they wish it away?
Mønti Pythøn ik den Hølie Gräilen
Røtern nik Akten DiWik
Alsø wik
Alsø alsø wik
Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?
See the løveli lakes
The wøndërful telephøne system
And mäni interesting furry animals
It was removed for the 2001 global warming propagandafest (I forget what they called it) by a bunch of politically motivated statisticians.
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Including the majestik møøse
A Møøse once bit my sister...
No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse
with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given
her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and
star of many Norwegian møvies:
"The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist",
"Fillings of Passion",
"The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...
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