Curious and curiouser….

“The most bitter cold front to blow over the eastern Mediterranean since 1964 plunged much of the Middle East into a deep freeze.

Sub-freezing temperatures in Baghdad forced Iraqis to huddle around kerosene heaters.”

Arctic Chill in Middle East

“Unseasonable warmth and dampness across Finland during much of January appear to have convinced some brown bears to leave hibernation.”

Finish Warm Spell

“An international satellite network measuring the thickness of the glaciers as they shrink year by year has found that the glaciers have melted so rapidly during the past 10 years that the continent is losing almost as much ice as Greenland…”

Antarctic Glaciers