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Coldest day this winter in Switzerland
 GENEVA (AFP) Jan 27, 2005
 Switzerland shivered in the coldest day this winter on Thursday with icy temperatures hitting minus 19 degrees Celsius (66 degrees Fahrenheit) in the western town of Aigle, the weather centre said.

Pushed lower by a vicious wind, the thermometer sank to minus 9.5 degrees Celsius in Zurich, minus 7.5 degrees in Neuchatel and minus 5.8 degrees in Geneva, according to MeteoSuisse.

Temperatures everywhere froze below zero with the exception of the Italian-speaking region of Tessin to the south of the Alps where the mercury clung to plus-seven degrees Celsius.