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Channel: thornews · 2018 · News & Politics

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Floods, Record Warmth, High Winds: It’s the Winter of 2018, European Edition

When it comes to extreme weather, Europe—typically more placid than North America—has been giving its western counterpart a run for its money. Much like North America, Eurasia is getting record warmth on its west side and periods of brutal cold on its east side, along with some notable storminess and hydrologic extremes (trending toward the wet, though, as opposed to the expanding drought now gripping America).

The culprits for these dual patterns are strong, recurrent upper-level ridges over the far North Pacific and North Atlantic. These have been pushing warm air into western North America and Europe and guiding cold fronts into eastern North America and eastern Asia. They’re also feeding into a lively scientific debate on how warming across the Arctic is affecting midlatitude winters, a topic we explored in depth in a 2017 post. We’ll revisit this discussion in a forthcoming post. In the meantime, here’s a quick tour of some recent wild-weather highlights from Europe and Asia.

Floodwaters invade Paris
The Seine River in Paris reached a level of 5.71 meters (18.7 feet) at noon Saturday and is expected to crest just below the 6.07 meters (19.9 feet) produced

This winter’s floods have been fed by enormous January rains around and upstream from Paris, with heavy snows across the French Alps. As reported by Pam Wright at weather.com, Paris racked up 183 mm (7.20”) of rain for the period Dec. 1–Jan. 21, twice the long-term average for the period and second only to the 213 mm (8.36”) recorded in 1935-36. Further up the Seine watershed, Langres had already broken its all-time January rainfall record as of Jan. 21 with 199 mm (7.83"), beating 184.8 mm (7.28") from 1984.

This week’s flooding closed streets along the Seine and forced some 400 residents downstream from the city to evacuate. The Louvre museum—which scrambled to relocate 35,000 pieces of art in just 24 hours during the 2016 flood—closed one of its lower levels on Thursday as a precaution. Flash floods in July 2017 damaged several of the Louvre’s paintings.

Flooding in Paris inevitably brings comparisons to the city’s 1910 disaster, when the Seine rose to 8.62 meters and some 22,000 buildings were flooded. A 2014 review by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) noted that a repeat of the 1910 Paris flood could affect up to 5 million people and cause up to 30 billion Euros (about $37 billion US) in damage. OECD released an update on Tuesday: “Action to prevent the risk of major flooding in Paris and the Ile de France region has improved in recent years – particularly after the Seine burst its banks in May and June 2016 – but urban and territorial planning needs to be better adapted, governance strengthened and long-term funding clarified.”

A January “warm wave”
Wednesday was the mildest January day on record across parts of northern Europe. This includes the coastal German town of Cuxhaven, which reached 13.8°C (56.8°F). At Sønderborg, Denmark, a nationwide January heat record was set with 12.9°C (55.2°F), topping the nation’s old monthly record of 12.4°C (54.2°F) from 2005.

Parts of western Europe now have a good shot at ending up with their warmest January on record. Geneva, Switzerland, has been running more than 1°C (1.8°F) above its previous record for the month as a whole, and France is likely to eclipse its monthly record set in 1936, 1988, and 2014 by as much as 0.3°C (0.5°F). Cannes, France, set a new monthly high on Jan. 4 with 22.9°C (73.2°F).  With help from warm downslope winds, Jan. 22 saw the warmest daily lows ever recorded in January over parts of southern France, including 14.5°C (58.1°F) at Montpelier. All-time January highs were set on Monday in the Spanish cities of Valencia (26.6°C/79.9°F) and Barcelona (23.8°C/74.8°F).

At the same time that parts of the central and eastern U.S. suffered through their coldest holiday week on record, western Europe was smashing heat records. Both France and Germany had their warmest New Year’s Eve on record. An analysis by Michael Theusner (Klimahaus) showed that 183 of Germany’s 224 stations with at least 50 years of record had their warmest Dec. 31 on record. Leipzig-Holzhausen, where records b

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