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Frigid temperatures have gripped Europe in the last week, with the mercury reaching as low as 35 degrees Celsius below zero. After what had been a relatively mild winter, the sudden cold caught many unprepared.

A selection of the best of the best of OWNI's weekly round-up of data on the web, from a year that's seen so many wonderful, innovative, inventive, colorful, moving and funny data projects.

Best weather pictures of the year: lightning, auroras, snow and ice.

The Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment (EVE) instrument will allow us to better measure solar irradiance in extreme ultraviolet wavelengths.This type of irradiance, which is absorbed completely by Earth's upper atmosphere, can be dangerous to astronauts and electronics in space.

This is why I don't live in Montana: I don’t want to live in a place where transdimensional spaceworms can appear in the sky and blast superheated steam straight down onto innocent earthlings.

The memory of last winter's blizzards may be fading in this summer's searing heat, but scientists studying them have detected a perfect storm of converging weather patterns that had little relation to climate change.

These pictures were made in the north of Waveland, Mississippi where the eye of the storm passed through. The dance with Katrina, part of her beauty as she left destruction on her exit. They are remarkably dramatic...

YoWindow displays the weather just like from your window.The actual weather in your city.

To many people's confusion, these weather events happened against a backdrop of increasing man-made greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere that are gradually warming the planet. But scientists stress this weather does not mean that those gases are no longer exerting a warming influence.

Using the other planets as weather labs, meterologists are getting a better feel for how things work on Earth. James Williams gets wind of the details.