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Climate change: Is this winter s crazy weather in Spain a taste of things to come? | News

From the biggest snowfall in a century and an exceptional cold snap, to unseasonable highs, this winter has gone from one extreme to another in Spain, swinging within a temperature range of 50ºC and keeping everyone in a constant state of surprise. During this past season, which for meteorological purposes started on December 1 and ended on February 28 (as opposed to the astronomical winter, from December 21 to March 20), Spain experienced the entire spectrum of possibilities, “many extreme, some very adverse and several completely unusual,” says Rubén del Campo, the spokesman for the AEMET national weather agency. Del Campo explains that a storm in late December holds the key to the chain of atypical meteorological episodes that followed. Its intense northerly winds brought an arctic air mass to the peninsula, which became stagnant and continued to cool. The interaction between this mass and Storm Filomena’s air flow, which was very humid and relatively warm,

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