Much of Europe woke up to yet
another day of a cold spell on Wednesday that may have turned the streets of London, Rome and other capitals into pretty photo scenes but also has cost lives across the continent.
Not exact matches
The study saw changes that included an overall decrease in
cold events, a higher probability to have a year without a
cold spell, and an increase in the annual number
of wet
days.
Usually we'll get a
day or two
of snow per year and a few odd
cold spells, but it doesn't... [Read more...]
Nearly all
of these Americans, whatever their troubles learning French, their
spells of homesickness, and their suffering in the raw
cold winters by the Seine, spent many
of the happiest
days and nights
of their lives in Paris.
After this weeks
cold spell, a
day at the beach is probably not high on the agenda but summer will roll around again so here are a few
of my favourite South African beaches... In the Overberg, Nanny's Beach, also known as Kammabaai, is a well loved Hermanus...
Some, such as
Cold Spell, pull us into a vertiginous glimpse
of the unknown and an associative flight
of imaginings, while Up River reminds us that although Mason's art has often been called poetic, it is seldom the soft, meandering poetry
of day dreams, but more often the passion and intensity
of midnight adventures.
The media certainly had a field
day with the «attack
of the polar vortex» in early January, and in their hyping
of the story, some misquoted me (and others) by saying that climate change caused the unusual
cold spell.