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'Beast from the East' keeps Europe in deep freeze
Feb 28, 2018 (AFP)
The death toll rose to at least 46 since Friday as a 75-year-old Dutchman went out to skate in the western village of Hank, only for the ice to crack beneath hi...
'Beast from the East' sends Europe mercury plummeting
Feb 27, 2018 (AFP)
Freezing temperatures have claimed at least 10 lives across the continent in the last three days with particularly acute fears for rough sleepers and the eldery...
Snow falls in Rome as Europe hit by icy weather
Feb 26, 2018 (AFP)
The "Beast from the East", as Britain's media have named it, is expected to bring cold air from Russia over the next few days that will make it feel even chilli...
Icy blast from Siberia sweeps across Europe
Feb 25, 2018 (AFP)
The "Beast from the East", as the phenomenon has been dubbed by the British media, is expected to bring chilling winds from Russia over the next week that will ...
Student research team accelerates snow melt with 'Melt Mat'
Feb 16, 2018 (SPX)
Fresh snow's highly reflective surface is the culprit of this phenomenon, dramatically minimizing any potential melting effects from the sun's heat. Cities in c...
Thermal blankets melt snow quickly
Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)
They say the blankets could slash snow-removal costs and reduce the risk of environmental contamination caused by soot and other products used to melt the white...
Skiers take to Paris streets as snow prompts travel chaos
Feb 07, 2018 (AFP)
Nearly 2,000 people in the Paris region had to spend Tuesday night in their cars, according to police, after the snow caused traffic jams that stretched a recor...
Moscow authorities struggle to clear record snowfall
Feb 05, 2018 (AFP)
The city hall said that 45 centimetres (17 inches) of snow had fallen between Saturday and Monday morning, or 20 percent more than the average for the whole mon...
One dead as record snowfall hits Moscow
Feb 04, 2018 (AFP)
Russia's meteorological service said Moscow had seen more than half its average monthly snowfall in the space of 24 hours, with 43 centimetres (17 inches) blank...
North Iran gets massive snow dump
Jan 28, 2018 (AFP)
The capital's Imam Khomeini International and Mehrabad airports were shut due to poor visibility "until further notice", state television said. Some 20 province...
Freezing Tokyo sees most ambulance calls for 80 years
Jan 25, 2018 (AFP)
The Tokyo fire department, which runs the ambulance service, said it had responded to 2,826 calls on Wednesday following rare and heavy snow that sparked chaos ...
Dust on Snow Controls Springtime River Rise in West
Jan 25, 2018 (JPL)
The finding is valuable for western water managers and advances our understanding of how freshwater resources, in the form of snow and ice, will respond to warm...
NOAA research helps predict snowpack before the snow even falls
Jan 24, 2018 (SPX)
This melting snow comes from snowpack, the high elevation reservoir of snow which melts in the spring and summer. Agriculture depends on snowpack for a majority...
Climate change and snowmelt - turn up the heat, but what about humidity?
Jan 24, 2018 (SPX)
In a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of Utah professor Paul Brooks and University of Nevada Reno professor Ad...
Thousands stranded, scores injured in snowbound Tokyo
Jan 23, 2018 (AFP)
Japan's weather agency recorded as much as 23 centimetres (9.2 inches) of snow in some parts of Tokyo, the biggest snowfall since February 2014. The weather par...
Tokyo gets first 'heavy snow' alert in four years
Jan 22, 2018 (AFP)
Scores of domestic flights departing from and arriving at the Japanese capital were scrapped due to the snow, while some regional trains were also cancelled. Ja...
Extreme cold snap hits Russia ahead of Epiphany icy plunges
Jan 18, 2018 (AFP)
In the Sakha Republic, a region in Russia's Far East around 5,300 kilometres (3,300 miles) east of Moscow, temperatures dropped to minus 68 degrees celsius (min...
Snow traps 13,000 tourists at Swiss Alpine resort Zermatt
Jan 09, 2018 (AFP)
The snow has blocked all roads and the train leading to the resort in the southern Swiss canton of Valais, which was also hit by some power outages, head of the...
Spanish army called in as snow traps thousands on roads
Jan 07, 2018 (AFP)
The army's emergency unit UME said it sent two companies of specialist soldiers and 95 vehicles to free over 3,000 vehicles that became stranded on the AP6 high...
Thaw in sight as brutal cold grips US East Coast
Jan 07, 2018 (AFP)
The deep freeze follows a deadly winter storm, dubbed a "bomb cyclone," which was last week blamed for at least 22 deaths in the United States, US media reporte...
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