{"id":5767,"date":"2026-05-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/?p=5767"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:04:10","slug":"a-stark-picture-snow-cover-in-europe-fell-31-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/?p=5767","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA stark picture\u201d: snow cover in Europe fell 31% in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGIN:  https:\/\/www.yourweather.co.uk\/news\/<\/p>\n<p>European climate scientists paint grim picture of the progress of climate change across Europe last year. The continent is the world\u2019s fastest warming.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a-stark-picture-snow-cover-in-europe-fell-31-in-1777995988692.webp\" data-image=\"vyp4n9f6p0sv\" alt=\"Europe is the world's fastest-warming continent\" title=\"Europe is the world's fastest-warming continent\">Europe is the world&#8217;s fastest-warming continent<\/figure>\n<p>At least 95% of Europe experienced above-average annual temperatures in 2025, according to data collected by the continent\u2019s climate monitoring experts.<\/p>\n<p>The area of Europe experiencing winter days with freezing temperatures is shrinking. Norway, Sweden and Finland north of 60\u00b0N \u2013 a region known as \u2018Sub-Arctic Fennoscandia\u2019 \u2013 saw its longest heatwave on record in July, spanning three weeks. <\/p>\n<p>During that period, temperatures close to and within the Arctic Circle reached and exceeded 30\u00b0C, peaking at 34.9\u00b0C in Frosta, Norway. <\/p>\n<p>With rising temperatures, and widespread wildfires and drought, the evidence is unequivocal; climate change is not a future threat, it is our present reality.Meanwhile, Europe as a whole saw a record low number of cold stress days, a metric which refers to how cold it feels, rather than the act<\/p>\n<p>ual temperature. Around 90% of the continent experienced fewer days than average with at least \u2018strong\u2019 cold stress, where temperatures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGIN: https:\/\/www.yourweather.co.uk\/news\/ European climate scientists paint grim picture of the progress of climate change across Europe last year. The continent is the world\u2019s fastest warming. Europe is the world&#8217;s fastest-warming continent At least 95% of Europe experienced above-average annual temperatures in 2025, according to data collected by the continent\u2019s climate monitoring experts. The area of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5769,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5767\/revisions\/5769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}