warm_winter_spells mp21k Winters warm up 26 January 2005 The heat_wave that hit Europe in the summer of 2003 resulted in thousands of deaths in France, Italy and several other European countries. However, a new analysis by a Swiss climate scientist has shown that the temperature changes that occur at high altitudes during the "warm winter spells" are even larger than those that happen during the summer (Geophys. Res. Lett. 32 L01812). 050128 ... . http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/1/15/1 "Warm winter spells can lead to early snow melt, winter-time floods," 050128 what's it to you? who go blather from