Monday, June 18, 2007

Memorial Day Cold Wave Overseas

When Memorial Day rolled around in the United States most parts of the country experienced nice, warm weather. However, other parts of the world weren't so fortunate.

How about snow in Germany? This is actually a follow-up on one of the snowiest winters ever in the Alps. In case you forgot, they've been recording weather there a bit longer than here in the US.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=458562&in_page_id=1811

Chile lived up to its homonymic name and was quite chilly... to the tune of sub-freezing temperatures. The result was a record demand for electricity as Chileans tried to keep warm.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20670001&refer=latin_america&sid=av0tvGQPKLKU