Posted on 11/30/2010 3:55:23 PM PST by george76
Stockholm is forecast to experience its coldest seasonal temperatures for over 100 years this week as winter weather takes hold of the country, according to the Swedish Meteorological Institute...
Temperatures across the country are expected to drop to record lows for the first week of December, with the exception of the far north, with averages coming in 7-10 degrees Celsius below normal.
Stockholm registered -11 degrees Celsius at the weekend, the coldest November temperature since 1965 and the mercury is set to plunge further on Wednesday and Thursday, dropping as low as -15.
"It is far below average temperatures, which usually oscillate around zero at this time of the year," said Alexandra Ohlsson, a meteorologist with SMHI.
Dalarna and Jämtland in northern Sweden will also be hit with the harsh weather. The Storsjön lake in the heart of Jämtland's main city Östersund has already frozen over in most parts.
"It looks like the sub-zero temperatures will persist," she said
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The way they engage in the event tells you there are some very serious physiologic differences in the two groups.
Recalling that about 1200 years ago the Sa'ami made full contact with the outside world on a permanent basis, there's been some mixing going on ~ probably aren't any full breed Sa'ami any more ~ but that original contact clouded the vision of researchers until modern times.
The Sa'ami had a boat hull designed to accommodate mountain streams, broad rivers and the Arctic Ocean.
The Norse ramped up the design and EVERYBODY took off together ~ Sa'ami boat designers, Norse warriors ~ Norse drygoods dealers, etc.
One "problem" traced to the Sa'ami is a rather pronounced wheat gluten resistance. Although Celiac has been known since Roman times, it was not diagnosed until AFTER the Romans acquired access to the Amber mines in Denmark ~ where there were still plenty of Sa'ami at that time.
Understand that there's no wheat, rye, barley or grapes growing in the Arctic ~ so there's no reason you need to digest that stuff. I would imagine the Romans "imported" some Sa'ami womenfolk ~ and that's worth looking into.
The Russians did a study some years back on the Skolt (they have 5,000 of them) and found none of them had the enzyme necessary to metabolize alcohol.
They also have at least 82 varieties of a single gene involved in heme synthesis in the body. The rest of the world has 1. Has a lot to do with a high iron content in their diet, as well as a high iron content in the Fenno-Scandian peninsula. These different genes are ways the body maximizes the movement of iron through your body and back out into the environment.
A recent report ~ not complete ~ suggests that those 82 different heme genes are further delineated into MILLIONS due to some rather intricate mythelation that occurs in folks with any of those genes (but not the 1 used by everybody else).
You might want to read up on what's known if you start finding your fingernails turning copper colored or you get large black patches of iron laid down just under your skin..
I watching this one closely.
The Sa'ami also have a higher incidence of dwarfism than other groups of humans (except for the pygmies in various places). This seems to be an adaptation to the cold. The Keppel family (Norwegian dwarves) have a family tradition that Genghis Khan, reputedly shorter than most of his Mongol countrymen, actually visited Scandinavia to see some Sa'ami dwarves.
Al Gore must be getting his chakgra released with an authentic Swedish massage.
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