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Indian army rescues hundreds stranded on Kashmir highway Srinagar, India (AFP) Nov 16, 2009 
India's army has rescued nearly 300 Kashmiris stranded for days in sub-zero temperatures on a Himalayan highway blocked by heavy snow, the military said Monday. The 435-kilometre (297-mile) highway winding through the foothills of the Himalayas was cut off last week when heavy snow blocked the route connecting the state summer capital of Srinagar with the Buddhist-dominated town of Leh. ... read moreAt least 38 dead in China snow storms: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 13, 2009At least 38 people have died in some of the worst snows to hit northern China in decades, state media reported Friday, but storms were tapering off, easing travel woes at airports and rail stations. The most fatalities occurred in Shanxi province where nearly 500 traffic accidents left 24 people dead and 70 injured when heavy snowfall pummelled the region this week, the China News Service ... more
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Playing with weather stirs debate in China: state media
Beijing (AFP) Nov 11, 2009Chinese scientists artificially induced the second major snowstorm to wreak havoc in Beijing this season, state media said Wednesday, reigniting debate over the practice of tinkering with Mother Nature. After the earliest snow to hit the capital in 22 years fell on November 1, the capital was again shrouded in white Tuesday with more snow expected in the coming three days, the National ... more Beijing gives frosty reception to man-made snowstorm 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 4, 2009Government scientists in Beijing have been pilloried for inducing a recent heavy snow fall that jammed traffic, delayed air travel and left city residents shivering, state media said Wednesday. Sunday's snowfall dropped more than 16 million tonnes of snow on the Chinese capital, blanketing a city where winter heating services have yet to be switched on and leading to howls of public protest ... more Beijing's first snow of season artificially induced: report
Beijing (AFP) Nov 1, 2009Chinese meteorologists covered Beijing in snow Sunday after seeding clouds to bring winter weather to the capital in an effort to combat a lingering drought, state media reported. The unusually early snow blanketed the capital from Sunday morning and kept falling for half the day, helped by temperatures as low as minus 2 Celsius (29 Fahrenheit) and strong winds from the north, Xinhua news ag ... more Snow predicted for U.S. South this winter 
State College, Pa. (UPI) Oct 14, 2009 Snow in North Carolina and a warm Olympics in British Columbia will characterize the winter, Accu-Weather meteorologist Joe Bastardi said in State College, Pa. Bastardi said the current El Nino will fade over the winter and not have as much impact as it generally does. Hit hardest by the winter will be the area from southern New England through the Appalachians and mid-Atlantic ... more |
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Briton calls friends on mobile while in avalanche: report
Vienna (AFP) Feb 24, 2009A 26-year-old Briton talked to friends on his mobile phone as he was being buried in an avalanche in western Austria Tuesday, the Austria Press Agency reported. The young man, who survived unscathed, got lost while skiing near St. Anton, in western Tyrol, and was phoning friends skiing in the same area when he was partially buried under the mass of snow, APA said. He was still able to ... more Body recovered after Catholic sect group hit by Swiss avalanche 
Geneva (AFP) Feb 12, 2009The body of a French seminarist in an ultra-traditionalist Roman Catholic sect swept away in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps has been found, a group official said Thursday. "The body of the seminarist, from the Paris region, was found a few hours ago," a spokesman for the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X said. The search for the last still missing group member, from Caen in northern ... more Freak ice storm strikes western Canada 
Ottawa (AFP) Feb 9, 2009An unusual bout of warm winter weather turned snow into freezing rain Monday in western Canada, coating much of Manitoba and Saskatchewan provinces in ice, snapping power lines and halting travel. Federal police described the storm as one of the worst to strike the region in decades, with hundreds of vehicles sliding off slick roads. "We've had emergency vehicles in the ditch, we had a ... more Britain, Ireland gripped by fresh snowfalls
London (AFP) Feb 5, 2009Heavy snowfalls disrupted planes, trains and roads in Britain and Ireland on Thursday, days after the biggest snow storms here in nearly 20 years left at least one person dead. Around 10 centimetres (four inches) of snow fell in south Wales, western and central England, Northern Ireland and to the north of London, after much of the country was brought to a virtual standstill on Monday and ... more |
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