Dozens killed as icy weather grips Japan

Dozens killed as icy weather grips Japan

http://www.heraldsun.com.au
February 2, 2012

Heavy snow that has blanketed northern Japan for weeks, triggering avalanches and affecting transport networks, has left at least 55 people dead.

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Unusual cold snap strikes North India as death toll rises to 135

Unusual cold snap strikes North India as death toll rises to 135

http://weatherevents.co.uk
January 26, 2012

The death toll in a cold wave sweeping through northern India has risen to around 135, media reports say.

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Finland in the deep freeze all this week

Finland in the deep freeze all this week

http://www.yle.fi
January 30, 2012

The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) predicts severe cold to continue until at least next weekend. Early Monday, a new cold record for this winter was set in Kuhmo, where the mercury plunged to -35.4 degrees Celsius.

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Alaska: Anchorage on track to set record for coldest January

Anchorage on track to set record for coldest January

http://www.thenewstribune.com
28 January 2012

It has been so cold for so long in Anchorage that the chill has settled into the bones of daily life.

At Skinny Raven, $189 ankle-length down Skhoop ski skirts sell briskly. Plumbers who unfreeze pipes and thaw washing machines are too busy to talk.

Meteorologists agree: January is on track to be one of the most frigid months on record in Alaska history, according to the National Weather Service.

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Cold weather kills dozens in Europe

Cold weather kills dozens in Europe

http://www.irishtimes.com
January 25, 2010

Dozens of people have died in cold weather sweeping eastern Europe with temperatures today dipping to -35 degrees in some areas, causing schools to close and disrupting road and rail traffic.

Though eastern Europe has borne the brunt of the latest cold snap, temperatures also dropped to -17 degrees in the Netherlands, whose meteorological agency declared this the coldest winter in 30 years.

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Flurries hit southeast Australia as towns record their first-ever summer snowfalls

Flurries hit southeast Australia as towns record their first-ever summer snowfalls

http://www.newstalk1010.com
January 18, 2010

CANBERRA, Australia – Australia is following its second-hottest year on record with extraordinary snow flurries in its southeastern alpine region, where some towns have recorded their first-ever summer snowfalls.

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Record low temperatures recorded in several locations in Cuba

Record low temperatures recorded in several locations in Cuba

http://www.caribdaily.com
January 9, 2010

HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) — The Cuban Institute of Meteorology reported significant low temperatures in at least 17 locations all over the country, including some provincial capitals, and forecasted a predominance of winter conditions for the weekend.

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Snow covers Britain from head to toe after heaviest snowfall in 50 years

Snow covers Britain from head to toe

http://www.telegraph.co.uk
07 Jan 2010

As if dusted with icing sugar, this satellite image of Britain shows the full extent of the snow coverage affecting the country.

From head to toe there is barely a patch of land not blanketed by the heaviest snowfall in 50 years.

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Army rescues 1,000 drivers stranded in cars for 12 HOURS as UK is paralysed by heaviest snowfalls in 30 years (with more on its way)

Ice-bound Britain is paralysed by the biggest snowfall for years . . . and grit and gas supplies are already running low

http://www.dailymail.co.uk
6th January 2010

● Army drafted in to rescue 1,000 stranded motorists

● Boy, 6, fighting for his life after falling into icy garden pond

● Councils warn they have little more than a day’s grit supply

● Panic buying of salt, shovels, thermal underwear – and sledges

● Driver was treated for shock after his car skidded on to a level crossing

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Arctic freeze and snow wreak havoc across the planet

Arctic freeze and snow wreak havoc across the planet

http://www.timesonline.co.uk
January 5, 2010

Arctic air and record snow falls gripped the northern hemisphere yesterday, inflicting hardship and havoc from China, across Russia to Western Europe and over the US plains.

There were few precedents for the global sweep of extreme cold and ice that killed dozens in India, paralysed life in Beijing and threatened the Florida orange crop. Chicagoans sheltered from a potentially killer freeze, Paris endured sunny Siberian cold, Italy dug itself out of snowdrifts and Poland counted at least 13 deaths in record low temperatures of about minus 25C (-13F).

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