[Paddlewise] Where did that global warming go, or when will the winter end?

Here in southwestern Sweden the winter has been long and cold -
most winters the last decades have been more or less snow-less,
but often below freezing. The little snow we usually have arrive around
January 1st, and stays for a week, or so, then melts, and then we get
some more, which quickly disappears.

Here we had an unusually dry autumn, in some places record-settingly 
warm,
and all here in the south thought we would not get any winter at all.

But early in December the snow arrived (so we had a white Christmas
- very rare event here), and it is still here (even if some of it has 
melted
inbetween, no bare surfaces), and we've been warned that a snow
storm might be approaching!

Passing through Amsterdam, on our way to, and back from, Thailand,
we've seen that they have been blessed/cursed with even more snow
than we, which must be an utterly rare event!

In conclusion, it is evident that the jet streams have moved elsewhere
than their usual routes this winter, resulting in the Vancouver Winter
Olympics taking place on man-made, or man-transported, snow.

The world is out of synch, I think!

All the best,

Tord

PS Yesterday a woman ski sprinter fell off the track, which was built
on-top of a series of aluminium boxes, so she fell about nine feet, onto
the bare ground, consisting of rocks, and more boxes. The gutsy
lady, with broken/bruised ribs and molested inner organs, did non the
less continue to compete, if not win!
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