Note the last paragraph: “A large part of the harvest has fallen victim to the frost.”
After days of snowfall in Moscow, experts announced new records, said this article on Mar 26. About 80 inches of snow – more than twice as much as usual – had fallen in the metropolis since early March. In Russia, the death toll is now at least 311.
In the Ukrainian capital Kiev, thousands of workers and soldiers fought with the worst snowfalls in more than 100 years.
Thousands of schools and kindergartens were closed in Romania due to heavy snowfall. Drifts disabled in the Czech market. In Britain, the situation was tense. In some parts of Scotland, it was the fifth consecutive day of no electricity.
The long winter is a harbinger of the next ice age?
No, says solar system researcher Werner Curdt. Currently, there is indeed relatively low solar activity, which could in principle lead to a cooling of the Earth’s climate. “The current weather situation in this country, however, is not a consequence of low solar activity, but rather an escapade,” said Curdt of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Katlenburg-Lindau. In other regions of the northern hemisphere, such as Siberia, it is currently warmer than usual for this time of year.
Because of the cold, vegetable prices could rise in some areas in the spring. In Belgium, a large part of the harvest has fallen victim to the frost. Potatoes, radishes and cauliflower could be up to 30 percent more expensive than in the past season, told the Flemish newspaper “Het Laatste Nieuws” an agricultural expert.
http://www.mt-online.de/start/top_news_rotation_item/8181448_Russland_Mehs_als_300_Kaeltetote.html
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