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Cold winter in Riga

During February 2011 Riga, Latvia and the whole of the Northern Europe has experienced record temperatures. In Riga it was as low as -25 C, in Estonia -30 C and in Norway even -40 C.

We are hearing all kinds of reasons for the cold snap and severe weather globally. But is anyone discussing the Icelandic volcanic eruption of last year as the cause? It seems as if most of the world has forgotten the eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull, which, although relatively small for volcanic eruptions, caused enormous disruption to air travel across western and northern Europe over an initial period of six days in April 2010.

If history is an example, it is quite possible that this season’s arctic freeze in the Northern Hemisphere, as well as other weather patterns such as the cyclone in Australia, are results mainly of this recent volcanic event on Iceland. Indeed, this phenomenon is common enough to have a name, “volcanic winter.”

During February 2011 Riga, Latvia and the whole of the Northern Europe has experienced record temperatures. In Riga it was as low as -25 C, in Estonia -30 C and in Norway even -40 C.
We are hearing all kinds of reasons for the cold snap and severe weather globally. But is anyone discussing the Icelandic volcanic eruption of last year as the cause? It seems as if most of the world has forgotten the eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull, which, although relatively small for volcanic eruptions, caused enormous disruption to air travel across western and northern Europe over an initial period of six days in April 2010.If history is an example, it is quite possible that this season’s arctic freeze in the Northern Hemisphere, as well as other weather patterns such as the cyclone in Australia, are results mainly of this recent volcanic event on Iceland. Indeed, this phenomenon is common enough to have a name, “volcanic winter.”