{"id":182012,"date":"2019-01-13T07:49:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T07:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=182012"},"modified":"2019-01-15T06:59:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T06:59:27","slug":"extreme-arctic-snow-sparks-panic-in-europe-after-33c-temperature-plunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=182012","title":{"rendered":"EXTREME Arctic snow sparks PANIC in Europe after &#8216;-33C temperature plunge&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<h1>Oli Smith \u2013 Daily Express Jan 12, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s3yiFqN0DWA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/weather\">Snow chaos<\/a><\/strong><\/span> wreaking havoc throughout Europe is set to get worse this weekend amid panic across the continent. The devastating <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/weather\">snowfall<\/a><\/strong><\/span> has caused a transport crisis, stranded entire towns and left at least 21 people dead. This comes as forecasters predict that the record-setting subzero Arctic blast will continue to get worse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Austria and the Baltic region are all suffering under <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/weather\">treacherous subzero conditions<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>this morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The German army has been deployed across several states to aid in clearing roads and evacuating residents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Austria is experiencing one of its <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/weather\">heaviest snowfall <\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0on record, bringing large parts of the country to a standstill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Snowplough.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-182015\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Snowplough-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Snowplough\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Snowplough-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Snowplough.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Alexander Radlherr from Austria&#8217;s Central Institution for Meteorology said that the European snowfall is unprecedented, with such extreme weather only occurring \u201cevery 30 to 100 years\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Austrian military even sent helicopters to blow snow off roads and treetops to reduce the risk of trees falling on roads and rails.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In other parts of Europe, temperatures plunged to a shocking -23C while 110mph blizzard winds were recorded in Norway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Greece has seen a shocking -33C temperature plunge &#8211; with the average January temperature of 10C plunging to a record -23C in areas such as Florina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The heavy snow has caused widespread and severe transport chaos &#8211; with flight grounded, trains halted and buses even blown off roads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Schools and ski resorts have also been forced to close as <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/weather\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Europe struggles to get a grip on the crisis<\/strong><\/span>.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The death toll yesterday reached 21 people, with road conditions, fallen trees and subzero temperatures all to blame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Authorities have warned of the risk of avalanches in northern areas of the Norwegian mainland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In the Swiss Alps, a huge avalanche this week crashed into a hotel, shocking guests who were sitting in the restaurant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Witnesses described the wall of snow as 300 metres wide as it swept through the hotel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In the German city of\u00a0Chemnitz\u00a0all planned burials at the local cemetery have been called off because of the snow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/weather\/1071057\/BBC-weather-extreme-snow-Europe-forecast-temperature-subzero\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parts of Europe experiencing some of the heaviest snowfalls  on record<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ClimateGate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182016,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182012\/revisions\/182016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}