Monday, July 9, 2012

How global warming is driving our weather wild

New Scientist: ITS NICKNAME is the icebox of the nation. The village of Pellston in Michigan often sees arctic winters, with a thermometer-shattering record low of -47 °C in 1933. Even by late March, it is usually a very chilly place. But not this year. On 22 March the Pellston weather station registered a temperature above 29 °C, vaporising the previous record for that date by more than 17 degrees. This was just one of thousands of weather records smashed by the "summer in March", a 10-day event that affected...

URL: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528721.800-how-global-warming-is-driving-our-weather-wild.html

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