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Snow and bitter cold bring chaos to Germany and Britain
Feb 09, 2021 (AFP)
Some parts of Germany were cloaked in up to 50 centimetres (20 inches) of snow by Tuesday afternoon, according to local media reports. Traffic on a motorway nea...
Dutch hit by first snowstorm in a decade as Europe shivers
Feb 08, 2021 (AFP)
Britain was also bracing for heavy snow from what Dutch meteorologists have called Storm Darcy, which is packing winds of up to 90 kilometres (55 miles) an hour...
Four skiers killed in US avalanche
Feb 07, 2021 (AFP)
The Utah Avalanche Center, which documents avalanches in the region, said it was the highest toll since 1992. "We are overwhelmed with sadness to report four sk...
Major storm to hit northeastern US after dumping snow on capital
Feb 01, 2021 (AFP)
The National Weather Service issued storm warnings from Virginia to Maine -- home to tens of millions of people -- and predicted snowfall of 18 to 24 inches (45...
Helsinki's 'snowhow' keeps city open during harsh winter
Jan 15, 2021 (AFP)
In a vast underground depot, foreman Mika Merivirta briefs his team at the start of a shift, standing among rows of yellow snowploughs, diggers and blue grittin...
Madrid snowbound
Jan 15, 2021 (ESA)
Storm Filomena hit Spain over the weekend, blanketing parts of the country in thick snow and leaving half of the country on red alert. Madrid, one of the worst ...
Madrid delays reopening of schools after historic snowfall
Jan 15, 2021 (AFP)
The region's 2,557 schools had been set to reopen on Monday but access to over half of them, or 57.6 percent, remains difficult because of the snow and ice, the...
Winter bites for Croatia quake victims
Jan 15, 2021 (AFP)
She is among hundreds of families who have squeezed into vans, containers and other shelters after their homes were made unsafe by the quake that killed seven p...
Historic snowfall chills Madrid slum to the bones
Jan 14, 2021 (AFP)
Days after its heaviest snowfall in 50 years, Madrid woke on Tuesday to its lowest temperatures in decades, with the mercury plummeting to minus 10 degrees Cels...
Big freeze complicates snow-clearing efforts in Spain
Jan 12, 2021 (AFP)
With much of the country still blanketed in white following the worst snowstorm in decades, efforts resumed early to clear the streets of snow, ice and fallen t...
Madrid paralysed after heavy snowfall
Jan 11, 2021 (AFP)
Officials asked people to stay at home if possible after Storm Filomena dumped 20-30 centimetres (7-8 inches) of snow on the capital between Friday and Saturday...
Deadly snowstorms cause chaos across Spain
Jan 09, 2021 (AFP)
On Friday, Madrid experienced its heaviest snowfalls since 1971 in what the AEMET weather agency described as "exceptional and most likely historic" conditions ...
Imminent sudden stratospheric warming to occur, bringing increased risk of snow over coming weeks
Jan 07, 2021 (SPX)
The stratosphere is the layer of the atmosphere from around 10-50km above the earth's surface. SSW events are some of the most extreme of atmospheric phenomena ...
Milan snowbound as storms hit Italy
Dec 28, 2020 (AFP)
Around 20 centimetres(8 inches) of snow fell in the city, where a 76-year-old homeless man died in hospital after being found in the street. Falling trees disru...
Eight dead in blizzard, avalanches north of Tehran
Dec 26, 2020 (AFP)
"The bodies of eight missing climbers were recovered in the mountains above Tehran thanks to the efforts of Red Crescent rescue teams and operations," said Iran...
Snow brings joy, and misery, to pandemic-weary New York
Dec 17, 2020 (AFP)
New Yorkers, used to staring at the same scenes outside their windows during this year's shutdown, woke to something new to look at: a blanket of the white from...
Army deployed as record snowfall blankets parts of Japan
Dec 17, 2020 (AFP)
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called an emergency cabinet meeting and urged the public to be cautious, as local media reported more than 1,000 cars were strande...
Record-low snow accumulation on biggest Alpine glacier: study
Oct 16, 2020 (AFP)
Although 2020 has not been a year of extremes, the glaciers in the Swiss Alps are still in steady decline, losing a full two percent of their volume this year a...
Dust dampens albedo effect, spurs snowmelt in the heights of the Himalayas
Oct 07, 2020 (SPX)
That's because dust - lots of it in the Himalayas - absorbs sunlight, heating the snow that surrounds it. "It turns out that dust blowing hundreds of miles from...
Snow mass estimates now more reliable
May 22, 2020 (ESA)
Warming surface temperatures are known to have driven substantial reductions in the extent and duration of northern hemisphere snow cover. Equally important, bu...
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