All of this just within the last few months......... records being broken everywhere............
2006
Record-breakers for the 3 previous years - ( 2005, 2004 & 2003 ).
For 5 prior years: - ( 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999 & 1998 )
3/10 -
OHIO - Since 1978, which had only 0.65 inch of precipitation, NO FEBRUARY HAS BEEN DRIER THAN 2006. Rainfall during the month typically averages 2.9 inches with an additional 5 inches of snowfall. This years weather didnt come close to that with only 0.62 inch of rain and 2.3 inches of snow. Its also only the fifth time since 1976 that the month of February has been colder than January.
AUSTRALIA - Flooding from ex-tropical cyclone Emma has caused SOME OF THE HIGHEST WATER LEVELS ON RECORD in the Murchison catchment.
HAWAII - Intense rain flooded Hauula, even long-time Windward Oahu families are calling this THE WORST THEY'VE SEEN IN 35 YEARS.
MALAYSIA - Residents in the densely populated suburb of Subang Jaya thought a hurricane must have swept across their neighbourhood when a FREAK storm that lasted 30 minutes uprooted trees, blew off roofs, toppled over lampposts and caused chaos. Residents described the blustery weather conditions that started at 3pm yesterday as NOTHING LIKE THEY HAD EVER SEEN BEFORE. The Meteorological Department, when contacted, was unable to explain the phenomenon.
3/6 -
AUSTRALIA - UNPRECEDENTED SIGNS are pointing to a looming La Nina, a phenomenon that can disrupt weather patterns in many parts of the globe. It is UNPRECEDENTED in the historical record for a La Nina of substantial intensity or duration to develop so early in the year."
SWITZERLAND struggled to dig itself out after RECORD SNOWFALL. In Zurich, 21 inches of new snow was recorded on the heights of Zuerichberg, the HIGHEST IN A 24-HOUR PERIOD SINCE RECORDS BEGAN in 1931.
FRANCE, GERMANY - Hessen state in the south was dealing with THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL IN 15 YEARS.
FRANCE - A website which monitors off-piste conditions calls the recent period "the WORST IN LIVING MEMORY" for avalanches.
SCOTLAND - More than 10 inches of snow have fallen since the start of March - the MOST SEEN IN MARCH SINCE RECORDS BEGAN in 1958.
3/3 -
CANADA - British Columbia - Slab avalanches up to 80 cm deep were releasing with the weight of a skier within the ski area. Within the ski area SLOPES RAN THAT HAVE NOT SLID IN 10 YEARS.
3/1 -
INDIA - The HIGHEST EVER MAXIMUM DAY TEMPERATURE IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY of 38.4 degree celsius was recorded on Monday, the 27th.
ARIZONA - The Valleys RECORDBREAKING DRY SPELL may soon come to an end, as forecasts call for a 30-40 percent chance of rain into this morning. If rain fell at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport yesterday, it will snap a run of precipitation-free days at 132 - 31 days longer than the previous record.
IOWA - ONE OF THE WARMEST WINTERS ON RECORD FOR THE REGION.
NAMIBIA - one of Africa's driest countries, has been ravaged by floods following UNPRECEDENTED heavy rains that have fallen countrywide since the beginning of the year. Since the beginning of 2006, the country has recorded a rainfall average that is higher than the annual rainfall average.
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2/28 -
MALAYSIA - Sunday's floods in Shah Alam are touted to be the WORST IN 10 YEARS, following unusually heavy rain for five hours.
TASMANIA - Hobart's mean minimum overnight temperature was 12.8C, 2.1 degrees above normal and the HIGHEST FOR ANY DECEMBER IN 124 YEARS OF RECORDS. Much of Tasmania had more rain than normal during December, winds gusted in excess of 100km/h and Hobart reached 98km/h on Christmas Day - its SECOND-STRONGEST FESTIVE GUST ON RECORD. Late January brought scorching temperatures up to 40.6C - the SECOND-HIGHEST TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED in Tasmania.
ILLINOIS - When February came to an end, it marked the FIRST TIME IN 90 YEARS that Quincy went AN ENTIRE MONTH WITHOUT A MEASURABLE AMOUNT OF PRECIPITATION at least at one location. It's "VERY RARE" for a location anywhere in Illinois to have no precipitation whatsoever in a given month. Quincy hasn't had a month with zero precipitation since July 1916. This dry trend comes on the heels of an extraordinarily dry 2005, which turned out to be the DRIEST YEAR LOCALLY IN 16 YEARS.
KENYA's food situation has deteriorated further as the five year drought continues to create the WORST SITUATION IN THE REGION FOR FOUR DECADES.
SW U.S. - Tucson is suffering through its DRIEST WINTER ON RECORD, as is Albuquerque, N.M. The Southwest's spring wildfire season could come early. The conditions right now are about THE WORST WE'VE SEEN. Arizona and New Mexico, along with parts of Alaska, Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and California, are at above-normal risk for wildfires. Already the Forest Service has imposed the EARLIEST FIRE RESTRICTIONS EVER in Arizona and New Mexico.
Australian meteorologists warned Fiji and the Pacific region of the HIGHEST TIDES IN 26 YEARS that are expected to sweep in on the 28th of February.
2/26 -
CHINA - It snowed for 50 straight hours in the counties of Xuanhan, Dazhu and Daxian from the evening of Feb. 16 until the morning of Feb. 18. The snow was 60 cm deep in the mountainous areas. This amount has RARELY BEEN SEEN IN THE PAST TWO DECADES.
ARKANSAS - The MOST TORNADOES EVER VERIFIED IN ONE DAY occurred on Nov. 27, 2005, when 31 tornadoes were spotted in Arkansas.
2/24 -
BRITAIN - the country suffered its WORST DROUGHT IN A CENTURY. Groundwater levels in some areas are the LOWEST ON RECORD." Rainfall in the winter months has been the LOWEST SINCE THE DROUGHT OF 1920-21.
MOZAMBIQUE - A rare 7.5 quake was the SECOND-LARGEST TO HIT THE REGION SINCE 1900.
2/23 -
HAWAII - People who live in Hanalei said it's the WORST FLOODING THEY'VE SEEN THERE IN MORE THAN FIVE YEARS.
TEXAS - The temperature plunges last week and in early December are the two largest swings recorded at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport since the winter of 1995-96. Back then, like this winter, the high temperatures fell more than 30 degrees over two days on two occasions. Those swings are also AMONG THE GREATEST WHEN COMPARING ONE DAY'S HIGH WITH THE NEXT DAY'S LOW.
2/22 -
VIETNAM - the BIGGEST TORRENTIAL RAIN THAT HAS FALLEN IN THE MID-DRY SEASON IN THE LAST 30 YEARS.
BRAZIL - After historic drought, Amazon now faces RECORD FLOODING.
2/17 -
REUNION - The toll in the Indian Ocean island of Reunion from the CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS that causes crippling pain in the joints was likely to reach 100,000 by last week. It was BIGGEST EPIDEMIC OF CHIKUNGUNYA EVER RECORDED ANYWHERE.
PHILIPPINES - Leyte has been deluged with more than 20 inches of rain during February, FIVE TIMES THE MAXIMUM OF ANY PREVIOUS MONTH.
2/15 -
SOMALIA - The WORST DROUGHT IN A DECADE has hit Somalia.
2/9 -
CALIFORNIA - downtown Sacramento experienced RECORD-BREAKING TEMPERATURES of 72 degrees 2/7 and 2/8 and 73 degrees on 2/9, burning past the old record of 70 degrees, set on those dates in 1987, 1988 and 1988 again.
VIETNAM - A severe drought affecting northern Vietnam has brought the stretch of the Red River that passes Hanoi to its LOWEST LEVEL IN MORE THAN 100 YEARS.
2/13 -
NEW YORK - 68 centimetres (26.9 inches) of snow fell in Central Park, the MOST SINCE RECORD-KEEPING STARTED IN 1869.
FLORIDA - An arctic blast of cold air in Central Florida will likely drop temperatures to RECORD-BREAKING LOWS.
2/12 -
GERMANY - German meteorologists in the south said they have seen the HEAVIEST SNOWFALL IN A DECADE.
2/10 -
COLORADO - The mountain snows that feed Denver Water's water supply are NEAR RECORD LEVELS and there's so much RECORD SNOW that there's fear of flooding during the spring runoff.
AUSTRALIA - RECORD RAINFALL caused FLOODING UNPRECEDENTED IN RECENT HISTORY and damage in the millions of dollars, following rainfall of 241mm on January 12/13, the aftermath of Cyclone Clare.
OREGON - The Portland area has just slogged through ONE OF ITS RAINEST JANUARIES ON RECORD. Almost 10 inches of rain fell last month, making it Portlands wettest January since 11.81 inches fell in 1970.
2/8 -
MALTA - temperatures plunging as low as 8.7C makes it THE COLDEST FEBRUARY DAY IN 44 YEARS since 1962 when on the 15th of February the maximum temperature that day reached only 7.2C. The coldest February day since the Meteorological Office started keeping records in 1922 was that of 1929 with a high of 6.7C.
2/7 -
JAPAN - As of 5 p.m. Sunday, accumulations had built to 416 centimeters in Tsunan, Niigata Prefecture - the FIRST TIME IN 25 YEARS THE PREFECTURE RECORDED MORE THAN 400 CM OF SNOWFALL IN ONE WINTER.
CANADA - VANCOUVER - A violent windstorm pummelled southern British Columbia. The mayor of Delta called it the WORST STORM TO HIT THE AREA IN 30 YEARS.
2/3 -
INDIA - most parts have been experiencing warmer than normal day and night temperatures. The sheer scale and extent of the warming anomaly is UNPRECEDENTED FOR THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. The daytime maximums have been above normal by one to six degrees Celsius. Both day and night temperatures have risen in tandem.
2/2 -
TAJIKISTAN - an avalanche killed 18 people in their sleep when it engulfed an apartment block in the mountainous Central Asian state overnight. Avalanches frequently kill small groups of people during the winter and spring in Tajikistan but it was the WORST DEATH TOLL FROM A SINGLE INCIDENT IN SEVERAL YEARS.
2/1 -
CANADA - Vancouver endured 29 days of rain over the 31 days in January, the MOST FOR THE MONTH SINCE WEATHER WATCHERS BEGAN KEEPING RECORDS IN 1937. The previous record was 27, and that was reached in both 1953 and 1964.
BOLIVIA this may be THE COUNTRY'S WORST RAINY SEASON IN FIVE YEARS. Valleys and traditionally dry areas have been hardest hit with THE HIGHEST RAINFALL IN BOLIVIA IN A DECADE.
TORONTO - this has been the WARMEST JANUARY in Toronto since record-keeping began in 1937.
NEW YORK - January 30th the temperature zoomed to a springlike high of 64 degrees, ECLIPSING A 59-YEAR-OLD RECORD for the day, as one of the warmest Januarys on record winds down. The New York area finished the month with an average temperature of 40 degrees and change, the fourth warmest January on record.
UNITED KINGDOM - the incredible drought threatens millions and COULD BE THE WORST IN OVER 80 YEARS. Bewl Reservoir is at its LOWEST SINCE IT WAS BUILT IN 1976, when Britains rivers and reservoirs went thirsty in the driest 16 months on record. January was ONE OF THE DRIEST ON RECORD, especially in central and southern England. November 2004 to January 2006 has been the driest 15-month period including two winters since 1920/1922 and the second driest on record going back to 1914.
OREGON - This has been one of Southern Oregons WETTEST WINTERS IN RECENT MEMORY. For the two months that ended Jan. 31, 12.19 inches of rain fell on Medford two-thirds of the normal ANNUAL average of 18.37 inches. For December and January combined, there have been just four clear days.
WARMEST JANUARY ON RECORD in Oklahoma, South Dakota, Green Bay, Wis., Kansas City, Mo., Riverton, Wyo., and Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Nebraska.
KANSAS - It was THE WARMEST JANUARY SINCE WEATHER RECORDS WERE STARTED IN 1875. The unusual weather even produced an EXTREMELY RARE January tornado in Newton on the 28th. The last recorded January tornado in Kansas was 1950.
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1/31 -
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO - It was THE WORST FLOOD SINCE 1972, with water measuring five feet in some areas.
NORWAY - Parts of Trøndelag in north-central Norway were being pounded by a downpour on Monday that threatened to set off the WORST FLOODING IN 50 YEARS.
EUROPE - Lisbon, Spain, was hit, experiencing its FIRST HEAVY SNOWFALL IN 52 YEARS.
PORTUGAL & SPAIN - The Portuguese seaside town of Figueira da Foz saw its FIRST SNOWFALL IN 50 YEARS. Lisbon, which was under heavy rainfall since dawn, saw a hint of rare snow flurries for about 30 minutes during the afternoon. It HADN'T SNOWED INTHE CAPITAL SINCE 1954. In the southern city of Ecija, which is called the frying pan of Andalucia because summer temperatures rise above 40C (104F), locals had NOT SEEN SNOW FOR 30 YEARS.
ARIZONA - This has been the MOST FIRE-PRONE JANUARY IN THE PAST 10 YEARS OF DROUGHT.
NEW YORK - It may be an unavoidable part of life near a bay, but the tidal flooding in Howard Beach and Hamilton Beach January 31st was the WORST MANY COULD REMEMBER IN OVER A DECADE. Its exceptional.
The huge west Antarctic ice sheet may be starting to disintegrate . The report comes as most parts of Canada are experiencing ONE OF THE WARMEST WINTERS ON RECORD, with average temperatures above seasonal norms, in some cases by as much as 10 degrees.
UNITED KINGDOM - BRITAIN is facing its WORST DROUGHT FOR 75 YEARS after ONE OF THE DRIEST JANUARIES ON RECORD. Several rivers are approaching their LOWEST EVER FLOWS and groundwater levels in Southeast England are so low that several boreholes are near or at THEIR LOWEST RECORDED LEVEL.
NORTH DAKOTA & MINNESOTA - WARMEST JANUARY EVER RECORDED IN 115 YEARS. January will go down in the record books as the WARMEST in the Fargo-Moorhead area SINCE RECORD-KEEPING BEGAN IN 1881. The same goes for Grand Forks and Bismarck in North Dakota and St. Cloud and the Twin Cities in Minnesota. As of Monday, Januarys average daily temperature in Fargo was 23.3 degrees 16.6 degrees above the 30-year average and nearly two degrees above the record 21.8 degrees set in 1990. During the entire month of January, North Dakotas Lisbon never saw the temperature fall below zero, and that HAS NEVER HAPPENED IN THE HISTORY OF RECORD KEEPING THERE BEFORE.
1/30 -
FOG - AUSTRALIA - It has been ONE OF THE MOST HUMID JANUARYS IN 10 YEARS.
1/29 -
ALASKA - If the next four days are as unrelentingly cold as the past week, January 2006 will become the THIRD COLDEST MONTH ON RECORD SINCE 1971. With no relief in sight, January 2006 will rate at least the fifth coldest month in the past 35 years.
Huge ridges of sea ice brimmed over the Arctic Ocean and crashed onto a Barrow roadway. The two massive ice surges, known to Alaska Natives as ivus, were the city's LARGEST IN MORE THAN A QUARTER OF A CENTURY and stunned residents who had never seen large blocks of ice rammed ashore. Ivus are like frozen tsunamis and crash ashore violently.
1/28 -
The massive seabird die-off last year had NO COMPARABLE EVENT IN HISTORICAL RECORDS. By summer of 2005, food was so scare that murres starved to death by the thousands on the Olympic Coast, while Washington's colonies of glaucous-winged gulls produced less than 1 percent of their annual chick numbers. Up and down the West Coast, from Vancouver Island to central California, researchers reported bizarre ocean conditions, bird die-offs, and extremely low stocks of some key fish. It's possible that last summer's ecological catastrophe was just a freak alignment of several weather factors, but there's increasing evidence that it bears the fingerprints of climate change.
TEXAS - Lubbock has gone 96 days without measurable rainfall, the LONGEST STREAK SINCE RECORD-KEEPING BEGAN IN 1911. January's average high temperature of 68.3 degrees BROKE AN 83-YEAR-OLD RECORD, well above the normal high of 54.1 degrees. January was above normal in precipitation, including a RECORD RAIN for the 28th of January when 1.59 inches fell at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. Before the rains came January 22, North Texas experienced ONE OF ITS DRIEST 12-MONTH PERIODS EVER. They haven't had a drought of this severity SINCE THE 1950s. Phoenix, Arizona has gone 106 days without rain, ALSO A RECORD.
TEXAS - A RECORD 1.59 INCHES OF RAIN fell at D/FW Airport. It was the most rain since May 28, 2005. Before Saturday, the most rain recorded on Jan. 28 was the 1.18 inches that fell in 1989.
1/27 -
NORTH CAROLINA - Wind gusts set new records in North Carolina early Wednesday. Winds gusted to at least 200 mph early Wednesday morning at the U.S. Weather Service reporting station atop Grandfather Mountain, BREAKING THE RECORD FOR THE HIGHEST WIND EVER AT THE MOUNTAIN of 195.5 mph set on April 18, 1997.
EUROPE - Georgia's president said his country had effectively run out of fuel. "We have RECORD FREEZING TEMPERATURES. We have NEVER HAD SUCH COLD AT LEAST FOR THE LAST 30 YEARS and exactly at this moment the country is without heating and without electricity, without lights." There were reports of cold-weather deaths as far south as Italy.
KENYA - Rare zebras are being killed by anthrax amid the WORST DROUGHT IN 22 YEARS.
WISCONSIN - Appleton - Friday temperatures soared to a RECORD 51 DEGREES for Jan. 27, a full 27 degrees higher than ormal. The previous record for the day was 43 degrees set in 1947. "I feel comfortable saying it will go down as the WARMEST JANUARY EVER."
1/25 -
CANADA - BRITISH COLUMBIA - Wednesday's temperature has set a RECORD HIGH, climbing to 8 degrees Celsius. That breaks the record of 6.9 degrees set 13 years ago in 1996. The record low for January 25th in Prince George was -45.6 degrees Celsius, recorded back in 1950.
ALBERTA was Canada's hot spot for Jan. 25. The thermometer climbed past the forecast temperature to BREAK THE 1938 RECORD HIGH of 7.7 degrees C.
1/23 -
RECORD COLDin Latvia, temperatures of -27C were recorded, the LOWEST IN 100 YEARS. In Russia, the weather is the COLDEST TO AFFECT THE COUNTRY IN MORE THAN 25 YEARS.
Frigid temps have created a Dutch ozone hole. A weather balloon reported a NEW RECORD LOW ABOVE THE NETHERLANDS of -86.8 Celsius.
JAPAN - The season's first snowfall in the greater Tokyo region measured 9cm in the center of the capital yesterday, the HEAVIEST ACCUMULATION IN EIGHT YEARS.
MINNESOTA - Its been 18 to 20 degrees above average for much of Minnesota. It has been MINNESOTA'S WARMEST JANUARY SINCE 1944.
CONNECTICUTT - The back-to-back storms that last week levied hurricane-like DAMAGE NOT SEEN HERE IN TWO DECADES.
EXTREME WEATHER is playing havoc with sporting events around Australia. Horse races in Victoria were cancelled following a RECORD HEATWAVE. Adelaide races were cancelled as the city endured a HEATWAVE NOT EXPERIENCED IN ALMOST 100 YEARS. The city has recorded four continuous days of temperatures over 40. A similar phenomenon was last experienced in 1908.
1/22 -
OREGON - Records are being set all over the state like the one set Tuesday in Roseburg, the WETTEST JANUARY 17 IN MORE THAN 50 YEARS. It rained 2.21 inches, almost an inch more than the previous record for Jan. 17 set in 1954.
CYPRUS - The average temperature for December was 2°C higher than normal and rainfall barely reached 21 per cent of the monthly norm; the LOWEST AMOUNT IN THE LAST 10 YEARS".
CANADA - The last time it was close to this warm in Toronto on January 20th was two centuries ago. The mercury downtown hit 12-degrees, BREAKING THE FORMER RECORD of 11.7 degrees set in the year 1840. this January is on pace to go down in history as Toronto's warmest ever.
WISCONSIN - on the 19th the high for Beloit was 53, BREAKING THE RECORD of 51 previously set in 1921. South of the state line also saw record-breaking highs Thursday. Rockford passed its record high of 52, set in 1933, by one degree.
1/20 -
RECORD RAINFALL has physically isolated the town of Lake Grace from surrounding communities in Australia. In the direct path of the remnants of tropical cyclone Clare, Lake Grace received non-stop steady rain for twenty-seven hours which produced a record fall of 216.4mm over last Thursday and Friday. The previous record was in 1955 when Lake Grace received 214.3mm for the month of February.
1/19 -
Extreme wintry weather is taking its toll on energy supplies with Russia unable to meet the needs of several European countries. The current cold snap is something experts say normally HAPPENS ONLY ONCE IN A GENERATION. In Moscow, it is the COLDEST JANUARY FOR AT LEAST TEN YEARS.
1/18 -
INDIA - the HEAVIEST RAINS IN HALF A CENTURY forced hundreds of thousands of people in India out of their homes.
WINNIPEG - The recent three-week spell of balmy weather has SHATTERED WINNIPEG RECORDS, with night temperatures averaging 16.9 C warmer than usual for this time of winter. The 21 days of warm weather since Dec. 22 are the WARMEST SUCH INTERVAL RECORDED FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR SINCE RECORDS BEGAN 134 years ago.
1/17 -
ARKANSAS - the low lake levels for the Twin Lakes Area are a matter of concern. The lakes have fallen before, but for most people living here now these are THE LOWEST LEVELS THEY'VE EVER SEEN.
PENNSYLVANIA - wind gusts up to 65 m.p.h. knocked down trees and power lines in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The storm also produced a LOW TIDE WATER LEVEL RECORD.
1/15 -
CANADA - RECORD SNOWFALL forced the cancellation of 200 flights at Montreal airport. The storm will go down in history as ONE OF THE BIGGEST SNOWFALLS IN A SINGLE DAY in Montreal in December, beating a record of 37.8 centimetres (15 inches) on December 27, 1969.
1/12 -
WISCONSIN - Madison went 14 consecutive days - two entire weeks - without a ray of sunlight, according to the National Weather Service. That TIES THE CITY RECORD FOR MOST CLOUDY DAYS IN A ROW, set in 1992.
UNITED KINGDOM - A huge landslide on the Dorset Coast was described as the WORST ONE IN THE AREA FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS.
TEXAS - Even though it is January, drought conditions contributed to several wildfires attacking North Texas fields. The fires this season have been SO EXTREME that firefighters from all over the country are saying theyve NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS.
TEXAS - A drought in Texas and Oklahoma, ONE OF THE WORST IN NEARLY 100 YEARS, has dried up creeks and ponds, depleted pastures, and fueled wildfires. An "unusual" weather pattern is keeping Enid and northwest Oklahoma locked in a cycle of little or no precipitation, and no relief is in the forecast.
ASIA - is reeling under the HARSHEST WINTER FOR YEARS. In India it reached the lowest temperature in Delhi for 70 years - and the SECOND LOWEST EVER RECORDED.
WESTERN U.S. - RECORD-BREAKING SNOWFALLS hit much of the West. At Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the snow depths at mid-mountain are the DEEPEST IN THE 40-YEAR HISTORY of the resort.
1/11 -
CANADA - Vancouver has had 23 consecutive days of rain and is on track to set a 53-YEAR RECORD amid renewed fears of mudslides.
WASHINGTON - "Our consecutive rainy day streak now stands at 23 with no end in sight. This is now THE LONGEST STREAK SINCE THE EARLY 60S and the FOURTH LONGEST EVER RECORDED."
JAPAN - Fifteen locations across Japan have been hit by RECORD SNOWFALL since last month. In the mountains of central Japan in a RECORD COLD SNAP that has left 71 people dead.
1/10 -
INDIA - Delhi recorded near-freezing temperatures on Sunday FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 70 YEARS. The Dal Lake in Srinagar has frozen FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 20 YEARS.
1/6 -
CHINA - Almost 250,000 people in north-western China have been trapped by heavy snowfall, as the country faces its WORST WINTER IN 20 YEARS. This wraps up a year of extreme weather conditions following the HOTTEST SUMMER IN MORE THAN 50 YEARS.
JAPAN - was bracing for more snow today after SOME OF THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL ON RECORD.
1/4 -
The northern hills of India have been experiencing heavy snowfall since the last week of December, making it one of the LONGEST AND COLDEST SPELLS IN SEVERAL DECADES.
INDIA - Icy cold winds swept Chandigarh, as the maximum here dipped by a RECORD NINE DEGREES BELOW NORMAL at 11.4 C.
MICHIGAN - This past December was the SECOND CLOUDIEST EVER, only December 1972 was cloudier.
CALIFORNIA - Has been hit by four back-to-back storms which originated in China on Dec. 24 and crossed the Philippines to pick up subtropical moisture before letting the rain and wind wallop most of Northern California. The RARE quadruple storm combination comes once every dozen years. In Los Angeles rain drenched the route of the Rose Bowl parade for the FIRST TIME IN A HALF CENTURY.
1/2 -
ITALY - Twenty-five centimetres of snow has fallen on Florence, Italy - the MOST IN 10 YEARS.
CHINA - already enduring its COLDEST WINTER IN 20 YEARS, is preparing for a cold snap that will see temperatures drop by as much as 16C.
1/1/06 -
NEVADA - Reno hit by WORST FLOODING SINCE 1997.
EUROPE - many parts of Britain remain in the grip of ONE OF THE WORST SNOW AND ICE STORMS it has seen in many years.
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