Whats with this Severe Cold ?
Temperatures dipped to bitter levels once again this morning from the Low Countries where Amsterdam fell to -10C (14F) to -40C/F over the Finnish Interior. Germany shivered in their coldest morning in quarter of a century with -29.1C (-20F) on the Baltic Sea Island of Usedom, even mainland Germany shivered to -28C (-19F).

Snow/Cold spell now moves into N. Africa: Rare snow whitens Tripoli, Libya, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012.
Much more on vagaries tonite.