No doubt down to how much the Norwegian sea and nearby Atantic has warmed over the last couple of decades. 

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It's so depressing, isn't it.

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With a few exceptions that seems to have been the case for every winter on TWO from inception.

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Yes it certainly does

If you "reverse engineer" that map you can see how a Siberian Anticyclone could feed arctic air down across Southern Europe and that fits with the number of times we see News items of freak snow in the Med these days

We see the High pressure and cold air making its way steadily westward on the models winter after winter with everyone on here waiting with bated breath for the wintry weather to reach our shores but then the Atlantic perks up and all we get is an invading depression from across the water instead with the cold air deflected down to the south and east

 

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