Winter of 2009–10 in Europe

The winter of 2009–2010 in Europe was unusually cold. Globally, atypical weather patterns brought cold, moist air from the north. Weather systems were undergoing cyclogenesis from North American storms moving across the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and saw many parts of Europe experiencing heavy snowfall and record-low temperatures. This led to a number of deaths, widespread transport disruption, power failures and the postponement of a number of sporting events.

Cause

The cold weather was caused by high pressure over Greenland and Iceland causing weather patterns to be forced southward, a phenomenon described by meteorologists as the Arctic Oscillation and also the North Atlantic Oscillation which were negative compared to normal. The North Atlantic Oscillation in Winter 2009/10 was lower than during any winter in over a century and this resulted in more easterly winds bringing cold air into Northern Europe from Siberia and the Arctic. Scientists have shown that El Nino, the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation and solar variability all conspired to drive this extreme winter.

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Winter 1941

by: Novembre

I'm watching outside the (window) glass
As street light diffuses through the hall
Somewhere (Winter)'s lifting shades of war
Chilling me in the darkness of this fall
The Piano falls
As shadows watch the rain we tremble on our bed
In sheets of silver silk, as the world's heart loses its feel
The old town greets the pain with monuments of shame
This clock slowed down its hands,Its echoing the rain
Stop begging me to stay, stop begging me to stay
Just let me run away
This season's out time
Events sculptured in time
Through everlong time-rain
Sing one Wintersong the way you've always done,
for me
A Wintersong of pain the way you've always done,
for me




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