as of 27 jan 2015, 05:30

King Winter is worldwide confused

our editors abroad

Amsterdam –

The north west of England is struggling for the second time in a month with major flooding. Also elsewhere in the world, it is not a standard decemberweer.

This Australian family is to the flames, escaped.
Photo: Reuters

The forest fires south of Melbourne look spectacular, but devastate meanwhile, hundreds of hectares of land.
Photo: Reuters

A green christmas in Kandersteg, Switzerland.
Photo: EPA

Tornadoes for Christmas: the weather in the state of Alabama is completely upset.
Photo: AP

Fifty British had to be rescued from the rising waters.
Photo: AP Photo

Global warming also has its sunny side: in Cannes, where it is just not twenty degrees, you can enjoy the lenteachtige again.
Photo: AP

El Niño keeps house and makes for a strong severe weather event in South America. Some 150,000 people are by massive flooding of their homes. In Asuncion the Paraguay river almost out of its banks.
Photo: AFP

On christmas eve swept a tornado by Selmer, Tennessee. The fir tree is if any remained.
Photo: AP

For the first time in history gave the weervorsers yesterday two times code red, which only happens in ’life-threatening conditions.” On the whole of the northern hemisphere seems king Winter of started. So the villains of the temperatures in the east of the US from the twenty degrees, and the trees are in Central Park all in the blossom. South of the equator does El Niño house. Floods in Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay have already 150,000 people driven from their homes.

Who these days not on the calendar or in the shop windows of department stores has looked, would swear that it is spring. In many places in the abnormally warm christmas of 2015, is the culmination of a year that bulged with extreme weather.

Often had the warm decemberweer fairly innocuous consequences, such as on the Us east coast, where the high temperatures (today in New York: 18°C) more inviting to barbecuing than gourmet. Temperatuurrecords to the whole of the American east coast, pulped, and it was on christmas day, hardly colder than on independence day (4 July). “Sometimes it is the warming of the earth’s best
awesome,” said a New Yorker who is in T-shirt and shorts hardlooprondje trains.

Alps

Also the lack of snow in the Alps falls in the category of luxeproblemen. The flakes, which in november fell are as good as melted. Skiers throw themselves on the remaining narrow strips of snow. In Paris (14°C), and Prague (11°C) provokes the sun people to the café.

Great Britain

Of a very different order is the weather that Great Britain will find. Deployment of the army on christmas day could not prevent in the north of England and in parts of Scotland streets blank were. Weervorsers of the ’Office’ gave yesterday to two times, code red, indicating that the flooding life-threatening. In one day time to fell a quantity of rain that is normal in the whole of december. That the North of England earlier this month, already was under water, that the rain that now falls nowhere to go. As expected, it is raining after the weekend, still solid.

America

New York city Christmas with short sleeves celebrates, is in other parts of the U.S. the tornadoseizoen started. Hurricanes rage normally from may to at the latest at the end of november by the states of Alabama, but this year, the phenomenon kersttornado are introduced. When severe weather elsewhere in the south of the USA fell for seventeen deaths. In California there are 600 firefighters working on a forest fire to stop all of 500 acres of land has been consumed. The
Golden State is struggling with a severe drought. The fire spreads even faster because of the wind.

Australia

In Australia it is summer, and so the season of forest fires. South of Melbourne are 116 houses a fallen prey of the flames. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow will be less hot and there could also be rainfall. However, the local authorities note that the area to the end of February, the theatre remains of forest fires.

South America

Also South America has a share in the ’Christmas fire and water’. El Niño, the weather in the world in the war sends floods caused in Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil. The Paraguayrivier in the capital, Asuncion is on the point of order out of his banks to act, elsewhere in the area are already 150,000 people fled.