Talk:2006 European cold wave

This article was nominated for deletion on August 11, 2006. The result of the discussion was Keep.

Possible cleanup

The article has promise to provide factual information. The start of the article should not start with the fact many people had died as it doesn't provide an emotional detachment. Any fatalities should be mentioned as an after thought. I will be doing more research and see if I provide some cleanup for the article. For the moment, I will put a cleanup tag on the article.

smr 10:32, 18 June 2006 (UTC)smrgeog

I have cleaned up the article as I have finally found time to do so.

smr 09:26, 13 August 2006 (UTC)smrgeog

Merge

I had suggested on the other article that this article be combined with the Portugal event to form a larger more universal article on the abnormal conditions across Europe. My reasoning is the cold in Eastern Europe and the snow in Portugal is caused by the same set of factors.

smr 10:58, 18 June 2006 (UTC)smrgeog

Perhaps finding other specific areas besides the Portugal event which had problems would allow this merge to take place. Merging the articles would tend to lessen the importance of the Portugal event unless it was compared to other regions in the same article via juxtaposition. Ste4k 07:01, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Your point is noted, however; the Portugal event is only one in a number of unusual weather events across Europe: areas of southern Greece saw snow, parts of Spain, France, and Italy had snow and near record cold temperatures. I have the citations for these and these can be looked at as well. The new article would also include sections dealing with the bitter cold temperatures across northern and eastern Europe, the snow in Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. All this had been caused by the same anticyclone which had brought the cold temperatures to northern and eastern Europe. It should be noted that even in southern Europe during the same period, it was also considered a cold wave with temperatures dropping to around freezing (near or at record low values)in Lisbon and below -5C in places in southern France and Spain. Here are some citations that might be used.

[1] [2] [3] [4]

smr 09:24, 21 June 2006 (UTC)smrgeog

Deletion debate

I would support the deletion of 2006 Snow storm in Portugal article as it is part of the unusually cold weather over much of Europe. But I would support keeping the cold wave article as it has been cleaned up and can be included with other meteorlogical events articles in Wikipedia.

smr 09:24, 13 August 2006 (UTC)smrgeog