On Wednesday night August 17 the mercury in the Netherlands dropped to 0 degrees. This is unusual because never anywhere in the country at this time of year has the temperature dropped to freezing. According to Weather Online, in the period from 20 July to 21 August there has never been reported frost on the ground.
Record cold in parts of Europe—some the coldest in 100 years, some the coldest ever. That is the reality of August 13, 2016. Summer snows fell in Sweden and a city in Saxony experienced its coldest temperature on record. Is it just Europe that is dramatically turning colder, because of a slowing Atlantic current or the entire world?
Read more at https://www.technocracy.news/index.php/2016/09/02/rapid-global-cooling-alert-trigger-freeze-warming-science/.