Word: stratus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...holiday travel period, the cold and storms were caused by a vast high-pressure area with temperature-inversion layers that stretched from Spain to the Ukraine. On much of the Continent, mountainous regions basked in relatively warm air and sunshine while the lowlands were shrouded in a chilly gray stratus cover. The Eurofreeze created wartime-like refugee conditions for those caught on impassable highways, in crowded train stations and in befogged airports. Travel was sometimes impossible by any means...