Cold spells – World Weather Attribution

Extreme cold will still occur in Northern Europe, although less often – risking decreasing preparedness and higher vulnerability

A person walks in the snow followed by a dog in Finland. The land is very flat and they sky is grey with orange on the horizon.

Under the influence of a lingering anticyclone, Fennoscandia experienced extremely cold winter temperatures during early January 2024.

Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood of early growing period frost in France

In our latest study, scientists from France, Germany, Netherlands, and the UK collaborated to examine whether and to what extent human-induced climate change had a part to play in the cold early April following a very warm March 2021 that led to large scale frost damages in grapevines and fruit trees in central France.

A cold winter in North America, December 2017 to January 2018

Trees in snow, US, Photo by Alexey Kuzmin on Unsplash

Over the last week of 2017 and first week of 2018, a co