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Massive winter storm blankets central US
Feb 21, 2013 (AFP)
A massive winter storm blanketed much of the central United States Thursday and looked set to keep dumping heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain for days as it ma...
Third climber dies in British avalanche
Feb 15, 2013 (AFP)
A third climber has died after an avalanche in the Scottish Highlands that killed two people on Thursday, police said on Friday. Scottish police said the man ha...
Outside View: Big freeze, storms impose losses up to $40B
Feb 14, 2013 (UPI)
The January freeze and crippling storms gripping the eastern United States and upper Midwest are having significant effects on normal life and commerce. Gauging...
US northeast digs out from blizzard
Feb 09, 2013 (AFP)
The US northeast slowly dug out Saturday from a mammoth blizzard that choked air, road and rail travel, left some 650,000 homes and businesses without power and...
Scientists assure Midwesterners they can get used to the cold
Feb 08, 2013 (UPI)
A Chicago researcher says people actually do get used to cold weather, the kind folks across a large swath of the United States are experiencing this winter. Pe...
Massive blizzard could hit US northeast on Friday
Feb 07, 2013 (AFP)
A possibly "historic" storm took aim at New England with heavy snow and blizzard conditions forecast for New York and along the densely populated northeast coas...
US winter almost over: Phil the groundhog
Feb 02, 2013 (AFP)
It's official, at least according to America's most celebrated groundhog: spring is around the corner. In an annual ritual with early roots in German folklore a...
Winter to hang on in U.S. Northeast
Jan 30, 2013 (UPI)
The U.S. Northeast is likely to experience six more weeks of winter weather lasting into March, long-range forecasters at AccuWeather.com say. The Northwest is ...
Arctic blast sweeps Canada, US
Jan 23, 2013 (AFP)
Arctic air sweeping through Canada and parts of the United States sent temperatures plunging to record lows on Wednesday with a wind chill of minus 40 degrees (...
Snow grounds hundreds of flights across Europe
Jan 21, 2013 (AFP)
Hundreds of flights were cancelled and hazardous roads and railways disrupted traffic and caused countless accidents across Europe on Monday as heavy snow and f...
Half-metre of snowfall blankets Moscow, disrupts traffic
Jan 21, 2013 (AFP)
Unusually heavy snowfall of almost 50 centimetres (20 inches) in Moscow caused traffic jams on Monday but did not affect flights at city airports, which are wel...
Transport disrupted as France blanketed in snow
Jan 20, 2013 (AFP)
Heavy snowfall hit large parts of France on Sunday, putting Paris under a picturesque blanket of white stuff but causing major disruptions to air, road and rail...
Snow causes more cancellations at Heathrow airport
Jan 20, 2013 (AFP)
London's Heathrow Airport warned of further flight cancellations on Monday which would leave thousands more passengers stranded on the fourth day of delays afte...
Europe hit by blizzards, air traffic havoc, deaths
Jan 19, 2013 (AFP)
Extreme winter weather swept across western Europe on Saturday, leaving thousands of passengers stranded at London's main international airport and claiming sev...
Snow causes travel chaos in Austria
Jan 17, 2013 (AFP)
Over 200 flights in and out of Vienna airport were cancelled on Thursday due to heavy snowfall that also caused major travel problems across eastern and souther...
Snow from world's tallest tower pierces Tokyo roof
Jan 16, 2013 (AFP)
A chunk of frozen snow that fell off the world's tallest tower crashed through the roof of a Tokyo home, leaving a 30 centimetre (one-foot) hole, officials said...
One dead, 900 hurt in heavy Japan snowfall
Jan 15, 2013 (AFP)
Heavy snow that blanketed eastern Japan over the holiday weekend left one man dead and 900 others injured, as Tokyo commuters Tuesday took to the slippery stree...
Season's first snow hits Tokyo, paralyses traffic
Jan 14, 2013 (AFP)
The winter's first snowfall blanketed the Japanese capital Tokyo and its environs on Monday, paralysing traffic and stranding young people taking part in tradit...
Worst storms in decade bring Mideast to near standstill
Jan 10, 2013 (AFP)
The worst storms in a decade left swathes of Israel and Jordan under a blanket of snow and parts of Lebanon blacked out on Thursday, bringing misery to a region...
Thousands stuck in China airport as country freezes
Jan 05, 2013 (AFP)
Thousands of angry passengers were stranded after heavy fog delayed flights at a Chinese airport early on Saturday, as the country was shivered through its cold...
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