Switzerland: Cold winter allegedly doesn't buck global warming trend

Temperatures sink to record lows while snow depths are twice the normal level - is Switzerland's seemingly abnormal winter another indicator of climate change?
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swissinfo: But we seem to be having record cold with lots of snow.
H.W.: It's a cold anomaly in southwest and central Europe. I can imagine that in certain sites in the Alps and in the plains, the length of the period of snow cover will be quite high and a record at some sites, but it's local. It's clear that almost every day you'll have a record in some part of the world but we have to study it over a long time and on a global scale.

Snowiest Winter Ever Recorded in North Dakota -- Signs of the Times News

By the end of January, many counties had more than 400 percent of normal snow totals on the ground, and Governor John Hoeven had declared a state of emergency.

"There has been a repeated pattern," said Fong, "where the county will come and plow a road and then two days later, without any additional snow, the road becomes impassable again." Relatively speaking, the people in Bismarck have gotten off light. Divide County, in the state's northwest corner, has received 500 percent of normal snowfall.