{"id":1101,"date":"2010-12-24T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2017-01-19T16:17:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T16:17:44","slug":"britain-in-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=1101","title":{"rendered":"Britain in Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another winter, another big freeze in the United Kingdom and Ireland: This winter has started early and brought the first significant snow cover to the British Isles at the beginning of December. Coming with a breeze of Arctic air from the North-East, the snow made its way down to the south of Great Britain, with <a href=\"http:\/\/aqua.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aqua satellite<\/a> catching this moment at a time when some parts of the South-West still managed to escape the icing. This image from the <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/NaturalHazards\/view.php?id=47626\" target=\"_blank\">NASA&#8217;s Earth Observatory<\/a> shows the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/gallery\/2010\/dec\/07\/weather-scotland-pictures\" target=\"_blank\">snow lingered in Great Britain and Ireland on December 8, 2010<\/a> with a few clouds over Northern Ireland and the South-East of England. To show the impact on the people living there, I reprojected the image using the gridded equal-population projection which transforms the picture according to the population distribution. Especially the snow-free areas in the South as well as in the Liverpool-Manchester region strike out in the population projection, showing that at this time the most severe affected areas were the less populated (what then was about to change, with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/weather\" target=\"_blank\">second cold spell<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/gallery\/2010\/dec\/17\/weather-photography\" target=\"_blank\">bringing much more snow and ice<\/a> to the more populated areas of the UK just in time for Christmas):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/BritainInSnow.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/BritainInSnow_tn.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The British Isles covered in snow December 2010\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/BritainInSnow.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">(click for larger map)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n2011 Update: In addition to this UK snow map I have added a series of maps visualising the temperature anomalies in the 2010\/11 winter on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=1143\">this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The content on this page has been created by Benjamin Hennig. Please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?page_id=631\" target=\"_blank\">contact me<\/a> for further details on the terms of use.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another winter, another big freeze in the United Kingdom and Ireland: This winter has started early and brought the first significant snow cover to the British Isles at the beginning of December. 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