This week brought several big headlines in extreme weather (http://huffingtonpost.com/news/extreme-weather) news:- A spring blizzard dumped more than a foot of snow (http://fox2now.com/2013/03/25/snow-plows-clear-snow-but-threat-of-ice-remains/) on some parts of the St. Louis region, causing widespread travel problems.
- A massive, 500-yard landslide (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/ledgewood-washington-landslide_n_2965569.html) on Washington State's Whidbey Island damaged a house and led to a neighborhood evacuation.
- The United Kingdom is preparing for one of the coldest Easter Sundays ever, and the coldest March since 1962 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/28/britain-coldest-march-since-1962), as a frigid winter carries into spring.
- Speaking of snow, Kiev, Ukraine has also had some pretty mountainous drifts (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324789504578382391472242184.html) this past week and Washington D.C. has gone white (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/25/snow-in-dc-frozen-rain-fa_n_2948356.html) after a barrage of snow and freezing rain.
- There's a storm brewing in the Atlantic Ocean (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/29/atlantic-ocean-storm-2013_n_2981157.html) that stretches from Europe to North America, causing widespread snow across the U.S.
- Sea Turtle nesting season is getting off to a rough start (http://www.bradenton.com/2013/03/26/4453882/sea-turtle-nesting-underway-but.html)due to after-effects of Hurricane Sandy and Tropical Storm Debbie, the Associated Press reports.
Check out photos of the week's extreme weather from around the world:Via: HuffingtonPost
I can't imagine if something like this is in Lagos, Nigeria. Nigerians might not cope at all.
I pity them over there o