Barcelona hit with heaviest snowfall in 25 years
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weather "variability", experts say.
Barcelona hit with heaviest snowfall in 25 years
Schools were closed, roads were blocked and power was knocked as
Barcelona was hit with its heaviest snowfall in 25 years.
Published: 8:19PM GMT 08 Mar 2010
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A man puts snow chains on his car : Barcelona hit with heaviest
snowfall in 25 years
A man puts snow chains on his car during a heavy snowfall in Barcelona
Photo: AFP/GETTY
People look at a tree that fell on parked cars during a snow storm in
Barcelona
A tree that fell on parked cars during the snow storm in Barcelona
Photo: AP
Snowfalls of up to 50 centimetres (20 inches) were forecast for the
worst affected areas of the region of Catalonia, prompting the regional
government to cancel classes for more than 142,000 students at 476
public schools.
Power was lost in homes throughout the region, with energy company
Fecsa-Endesa reporting 200,000 clients without electricity, mostly in
the province of Girona.
Emergency services workers helped evacuate some 500 passengers who
became trapped on trains traveling between Barcelona and Portbou, on
the French border, which became stuck due to the lack of power, said
regional interior minister Joan Boada.
Thousands of commuters were left scrambling for an alternative way to
get home after the blizzard forced the suspension of bus services in
Barcelona and the closure of five suburban train lines in the
Mediterranean port city.
Barcelona city hall ordered the metro system to stay open all night to
help people move around the city.
Traffic on over 60 roads in Catalonia was either prohibited or
restricted. Spain's border with France at La Jonquera was closed
because of the snow, leaving some 4,000 trucks stranded, public
television TVE reported.
While Barcelona's El Prat airport was operating normally, 21 flights
out of the airport in nearby Girona were cancelled and nine others were
diverted to other cities due to the snow and strong winds, airport
officials said.
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The lines between climate science and religion continue to blur.
Tom P
The weatherman here blames it on the high pressure system over the UK
creating a NE air flow and a low pressure front in the Med.
He must be part of the fraud, right?
C r o w
No, only AGW is the fraud. You do know what replies you can expect here
when you start the whining the day after the first heat wave occurs in
the NH?
B,O,N,Z,O
"Tom P" <wero...@freent.dd> wrote in message
news:7vnras...@mid.individual.net...
ROTFLMAO
It takes a deep green leftie to spin like this!
Hot weather is caused by .
. GLOBAL WARMING!
. EXTREME WEATHER!
. THE ENVIRONMENT FIGHTING BACK!
Cold weather is caused by .
. a dry air mass and clear skies.
. a cold front.
. nothing in particular.
Warmest Regards
0zb0n
"In one of the more expensive ironies of history, the expenditure of more
than $US50 billion on research into global warming since 1990 has failed to
demonstrate any human-caused climate trend, let alone a dangerous one."
Bob Carter, Research Professor of Geology, James Cook University, Townsville