{"id":24025,"date":"2018-12-02T16:22:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T16:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24025"},"modified":"2018-12-02T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T16:22:07","slug":"eastern-europe-set-for-break-from-two-weeks-of-freezing-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24025","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Europe set for break from two weeks of freezing weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"98.6513823331\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Winter cold came suddenly to Eastern Europe this year. Belarus has been entirely sub-zero by day and at night since November 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">This season has not seen the beautiful frosty nights and sunny days of a deep winter, but has been often overcast with occasional snow flurries, although nothing of any significance until this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">In Minsk, the capital, an average November would see 3 degrees Celsius by day and -1C by night. For the whole month, the figures come out at nearer 2C by day and -2C by night. A variation from the average by that amount is significant but, since November 21, it has got steadily colder.<\/p>\n<p>The overall average during the last two weeks has been -4.6C. After a top temperature of -7.8C on Saturday, Sunday started even lower, at -11.6C. However, it started snowing on Saturday morning and by dawn on Sunday, 6cm lay on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Belarus has not been alone. December started in rural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/romania.html\">Romania<\/a> at -19C (11C below average), -18C in western <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/ukraine.html\">Ukraine<\/a> (15C below average) and -17C in Tiraspol, Moldova\u2019s second city (16C below average).<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t look like the start of a long, cold winter &#8211; the fierce Atlantic storms have been making recent progress in blowing warmer, wetter weather into and through Western Europe. Temperatures in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/france.html\">France<\/a>, the United Kingdom and the Low Countries are running at about 5C above normal.<\/p>\n<p>The forecast over the next week for Eastern Europe allows for a considerable warming and thaw, preceded by freezing rain, snow, and fog.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter cold came suddenly to Eastern Europe this year. Belarus has been entirely sub-zero by day and at night since November 21. This season has not seen the beautiful frosty nights and sunny days of a deep winter, but has been often overcast with occasional snow flurries, although nothing of any significance until this Sunday.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}