Wednesday, December 13, 2006

2006, the year of the weather records


July 2006 was the warmest July month of the past three centuries! The month had two heat waves, what is very peculiar. Since 1948 it has not been occurred that there were two heat waves in one year. The record stands on 1947, when in an extremely hot summer four times a period of very high temperatures was registered. In 2006 also the heavy rain fall ensured a record. In the summer fell on no less than thirteen days more than 50 mm precipitation. Furthermore, the month august has been the wettest august since the beginning of the measuring in 1906. With 184 mm precipitation it has been the wettest months of all times. The warmth continued. The KNMI exclaimed September up to the warmest September month in the past three hundred years. I really like this because I love it when it’s warm. You can go to the beach and to the swimming pool. But cold is only fun when it snows outside so you can glide on the snow with your sleigh. I enjoy it when you can have a snowfight and all kind of that winterstuff. Also in the autumn the mercury raised to high values. With average temperatures in the months of September, October and November of 13.6 degrees Celsius we speak of the warmest autumn of the past three centuries. According to the KNMI we can count also the arriving winter not on cold. And that is not good, it’s not fun when it doesn’t snow in a year!! So we have to prevent the greenhouse impact that is ruining winters! Keep the world clean ! By Jeffrey (12)

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