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Since mid-December, a new wave of intense cold air has swept across China. Extreme weather conditions such as low temperatures, cold waves, heavy snow, and freezing rain are prominent throughout the country. The Shandong Peninsula, in particular, has faced three consecutive days of blizzards, with Weihai City recording a snow depth of 74 centimeters on the 22nd, breaking the record for the heaviest snowfall in Shandong province. Nearby Yantai City also set a local record with 52 centimeters of snow. Experts have identified the snow in these areas as "cold stream snow," (a type of snowfall that occurs when cold air streams interact with warmer, moist air). Many people are feeling overwhelmingly cold.
Ice Core Reveals That Most of Greenland Was Green 416,000 Years Ago. Credit: Aline Dassel / Pixabay. A large portion of Greenland was an ice-free tundra landscape—perhaps covered by trees and roaming woolly mammoths—in the recent geologic past, new UVM-led research shows.
Iceland consists of eight geographical regions, Capital Region, Southern Peninsula, West, Westfjords, Northwest, Northeast, East and South.[2] Twenty per cent of the land is used for grazing, while only one per cent is cultivated. Iceland has lost most of the woodland that previously covered large areas of the country, but an ambitious reforestation program is currently underway.[3] Fossilized tree pollen and descriptions by the early settlers indicate that prior to human settlement, now thought to have occurred from around AD 800 onwards,[4][5] trees covered between thirty and forty per cent of the island. Today, however, there are only small patches of the original birch forests left, the most prominent being Hallormsstaðaskógur and Vaglaskógur.
originally posted by: mysterioustranger
a reply to: 727Sky
Interestingly? Look up the definition of climate. It's self explanatory. Never the same no matter where, always changing, morphing...
I had snow in Biscayne Bay, Miami 1973 on the beach...and once had 70 on Christmas up here in the "D".
Nature affects climate. Man affects climate. Even climate...can affect climate. So does polluted chemicals in our air.
Climate, whatever and wherever is fragile.✌️
An add: even in a desert, 100% hot....has living cactus....who gets the minimum required for life from what little rain the desert gets.
As much as climate is constant...it's variàbles can change immediately w an up and down variant.