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Spring snowstorm, floods blanket US midwest Chicago (AFP) March 21, 2008 
Thick, heavy snow blanketing parts of the central United States could worsen flood conditions along the Mississippi River basin, the National Weather Service warned Friday. Hundreds of flights were cancelled and traffic was snarled as a spring snowstorm dumped as much as 10 inches (25 centimeters) of wet snow in a wide swath ranging from North Dakota to Michigan. Just a few hours drive ... read more |
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Record snowfall provokes 'snow rage' in Canada
Ottawa (AFP) March 12, 2008A record snowfall in eastern Canada this winter has inspired some, crushed others, led to a rash of snow-blower thefts and incited at least two armed clashes, authorities said Wednesday. Police and psychologists describe the latter incidents as "snow rage," akin to road rage or assaults by frustrated drivers in traffic. Quebec City police say they received more than a dozen calls this ... more Late winter storm socks central US 
Chicago (AFP) March 9, 2008A late winter snowstorm buried a large part of the US midwestern United States, shutting down highways and stranding air travelers across the region, according to news reports Sunday. More than 20 inches (51 centimeters) of snow on fell on Ohio's capital city of Columbus in the winter storm that began Friday and did not ease off until early Sunday. Ohio's main newspaper The Cleveland Pla ... more Almost 1,000 dead from cold snap in Afghanistan: official 
Kabul (AFP) Feb 16, 2008Nearly 1,000 people have died in heavy snowstorms and severe cold during the harshest winter to hit Afghanistan in 30 years, the disaster authority said Saturday. More 130,000 livestock have also died and hundreds of homes destroyed or damaged by the heavy snowfalls, an official at the National Disaster Management Authorities said. "Now we know that 926 people have been killed. Over 200 ... more Cold, snow kills two in Turkey; closes Acropolis in Greece 
Ankara (AFP) Feb 17, 2008A cold snap and heavy snow falls over the past few days have killed two people and led to widespread disruption in Turkey, local media reported on Sunday. In Turkey, two men, aged 73 and 37, died from hypothermia in the northeastern city of Giresun and the northwestern city of Bursa, Turkish news agency Anatolia reported. Traffic in the country's biggest cities, the capital Ankara and ... more Death toll in China from cold snap reaches 107: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 13, 2008The ferocious cold weather that struck southern China over the past month killed 107 people and caused over 15 billion dollars in economic losses, state media reported Wednesday. Minister of Civil Affairs Li Xueju said the freezing temperatures, icy rain and heavy snow also led to about 1.5 million people having to be evacuated from dangerous situations, according to the Xinhua news agency. ... more |
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Jerusalem (AFP) Jan 30, 2008Blankets of snow brought the Holy City of Jerusalem and other cities across the Middle East grinding to a halt on Wednesday as icy weather conditions gripped the mainly desert region. Snow blocked roads to the Jordanian capital Amman and schools, universities and banks were shut in the desert kingdom, while freezing winds swept through the Mediterranean island of Cyprus and severe storms ... more Strain shows as China buckles under harsh winter 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 29, 2008Premier Wen Jiabao rushed Tuesday to oversee disaster relief as China buckled under its harshest winter for half a century, which has affected tens of millions of people and paralysed many areas. The heavy snowfalls and freezing temperatures across China have left more than 50 dead, ravaged power supplies and hit millions of people trying to go home for the main holiday of the year. ... more China issues severe weather warning amid fuel shortage fears 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 28, 2008China issued a severe weather warning on Monday for large swathes of the country already reeling from transport havoc and power shortages caused by the heaviest snowfalls in decades. The forecast of further severe snowstorms came as hundreds of thousands of travellers remained stranded in airports, train stations, and on highways as they struggled to join their families for the Lunar New Yea ... more Snow storms cause deaths in China ahead of Lunar New Year 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 27, 2008The worst snows to hit parts of China for 50 years killed at least a dozen people at the weekend, state media said, with thousands more injured as they headed home for the Lunar New Year holiday. The conditions brought traffic to a standstill in eight provinces, cut off a key rail link and left thousands of vehicles marooned on icy highways, reports said, with the cold snap causing power cut ... more Cold, snow kills 300 people in Afghanistan: authority
Kabul (AFP) Jan 21, 2008More than 320 people and thousands of livestock have been killed in Afghanistan this month in freezing weather and the heaviest snowfalls for 15 years, the country's disaster authority said Monday. The latest figure from Afghanistan's National Disaster Management Authority is triple that issued by the agency five days ago. The hardest-hit areas have been in the western province of Herat ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Jan 5, 2008Russian emergency services struggled to maintain the country's often creaky heating infrastructure on Saturday as temperatures in some of the coldest regions on Earth plunged to bone-chilling levels, officials said. The Emergency Situations Ministry said in a statement it was providing emergency help in a village in the Siberian province of Yakutia where a fault in a main heating pipeline ha ... more Two dead as western US lashed by snow, rain: officials 
San Francisco (AFP) Jan 6, 2008Heavy snow and rain pounded the western United States for a third day Sunday as state officials confirmed two fatalities from the storms that have pummeled the region. California was drenched with up to 10 inches (25 cm) of rainfall in some regions as mountain communities in the east of state and neighboring Nevada were blanketed by nearly six feet (two meters) of snow in places, National We ... more Nearly 50 dead in India cold snap: report 
Lucknow, India (AFP) Jan 3, 2008At least 47 people have died because of a biting cold wave sweeping northern India over the last two weeks, media reports said Thursday. The northern Uttar Pradesh state was worst hit, with 38 people freezing to death since the start of the chill in the last week of December, the Press Trust of India reported. New Delhi recorded the season's lowest temperature of 1.9 degrees Celsius (35. ... more Snowstorms disrupt travel in central US 
Chicago (AFP) Dec 28, 2007Heavy snowstorms continued to disrupt travel in the central United States Friday and forecasters said little relief was expected until the New Year. More than 400 flights were cancelled and delays were averaging an hour and a half at Chicago's O'Hare airport as the storm system which crippled Denver on Thursday moved eastward. But the Chicago airport authority said there was no need yet ... more US Midwest digs out of storm which killed 11 
Washington (AFP) Dec 24, 2007Power was back on for most of the greater Chicago area Monday after a heavy snow storm blew through the region grounding flights for Christmas holiday travellers and leaving 11 dead in road accidents, according to reports. But new warnings were out for areas along the shores of the eastern Great Lakes region in both the United States and Canada as the winter storms were expected to dump load ... more
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