Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) -- World leaders flying into Copenhagen today to discuss a solution to global warming will first face freezing weather as a blizzard dumped 10 centimeters (4 inches) of snow on the Danish capital overnight.
probably would not be defined as a blizzard in the US - even though per Wunderground, the temp is low enough and the wind is high enough and there is snow in the air, nonetheless the visibility is not low enough
| Really. In Buffalo it's not a blizzard until we get at least four feet (122 cm) of snow in under six hours plus all that other stuff. ;-) |
| Last time Chicago had a blizzard like that we got a new mayor. Hmmm ... |
Denmark has a maritime climate and milder winters than its Scandinavian neighbors. It hasn't had a white Christmas for 14 years, under the DMI's definition, and only had seven last century. Temperatures today fell as low as minus 4 Celsius (25 Fahrenheit).
DMI defines a white Christmas as 90 percent of the country being covered by at least 2 centimeters of snow on the afternoon of Dec. 24.
fwiw, I had a forecast for this event in Rantburg on the 13th |