{"id":31801,"date":"2018-03-02T07:08:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T12:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31801"},"modified":"2018-03-02T07:08:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T12:08:14","slug":"beast-from-the-east-europes-feeling-the-chill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31801","title":{"rendered":"Beast From The East: Europe&#8217;s Feeling The Chill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-03-01\/beast-east-europes-feeling-chill\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Beast From The East: Europe&#8217;s Feeling The Chill<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"submission-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 a2a_default_style\" data-a2a-icon-color=\"#222\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><strong>The &#8220;Beast from the East&#8221; has well and truly arrived in Europe, blanketing much of the continent in snow.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/https_%252F%252Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fuploads%252Fcard%252Fimage%252F720559%252F62aa39ab-a03f-49e6-836b-5063ba6a2593.jpg?itok=dWKu3mdN\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Siberian weather system has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/12433\/americas-coldest-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sent temperatures plummeting<\/a>\u00a0to as low as -30\u00b0C in some places and, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/13072\/beast-from-the-east-europes-feeling-the-chill\/\">Statista&#8217;s Niall McCarthy reports<\/a>,<strong> at least ten people have died due to the cold spell since Monday<\/strong>. Many major European cities have experienced their coldest temperatures in years as the following infographic shows.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Infographic: Beast From The East: Europe's Feeling The Chill  | Statista\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/13072\/beast-from-the-east-europes-feeling-the-chill\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/infographic.statista.com\/normal\/chartoftheday_13072_beast_from_the_east_europes_feeling_the_chill_n.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic: Beast From The East: Europe's Feeling The Chill  | Statista\" width=\"500\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>On Wednesday, Rome was experiencing lows of -6\u00b0C<\/strong> while the average February low in the Italian capital is 3\u00b0C, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.currentresults.com\/Weather\/Europe\/Cities\/temperature-february.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Current Results<\/a>. <strong>The city also saw its first snowfall in six years while Naples had to deal with its heaviest bout of snow in decades. <\/strong>The mercury usually doesn&#8217;t dip below 5\u00b0C during February in Naples.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Residents in both\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/7522\/the-snowiest-places-in-the-united-kingdom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">London<\/a>\u00a0and Amsterdam have been shivering in temperatures of -7\u00b0C but Munich and Berlin are even worse off. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/p05zgcbs.jpg?itok=rQ4tcseP\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yahoo Weather put Wednesday&#8217;s low in <strong>Munich at -17\u00b0C while Berliners had to endure -12\u00b0C,<\/strong> far colder than the average February low of -2\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beast From The East: Europe&#8217;s Feeling The Chill The &#8220;Beast from the East&#8221; has well and truly arrived in Europe, blanketing much of the continent in snow. The Siberian weather system has\u00a0sent temperatures plummeting\u00a0to as low as -30\u00b0C in some places and, as Statista&#8217;s Niall McCarthy reports, at least ten people have died due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10760,281,288,4318],"class_list":["post-31801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-cold-weather","tag-europe","tag-extreme-weather","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31802,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31801\/revisions\/31802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}