The mammoth storm that stretched from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic dumped more than 90cm of snow across the Northeast, the US National Weather Service said.
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9 Feb 2013
Blizzard warnings were in effect from New Jersey to southern Maine, with Boston expected to bear the brunt. The day was expected to begin with light snow, with stronger winds and heavier snowfall...
8 Feb 2013
A major snowstorm bore down on the northeastern United States Friday, with heavy snow, blizzard conditions and freezing temperatures forecast from New York through Maine as well as densely...
22 Jan 2013
Air, road and rail traffic across much of Europe suffered major disruptions yesterday as heavy snow and freezing weather gripped the continent.
Since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, more than 1.7 million volunteers have been registered to help maintain social stability in the capital, Xinhua reports.
Snow and rain battered parts of Beijing over the weekend, causing transport chaos in the capital and surrounding regions that authorities were still trying to clean up yesterday afternoon.
Temperatures continued to plunge across much of the mainland yesterday, heightening the risk of mass flooding with the eventual thaw.
The cold weather system that caused transport chaos in the north over the weekend began moving further southwards yesterday, bringing intense blizzard conditions to Shandong province and sub-zero...
Beijing was blanketed by an unusually early snowfall, partially induced to ease a prolonged drought that is gripping a good part of the country.
A HK$5 million grant was disbursed yesterday from Hong Kong's Disaster Relief Fund to World Vision for relief projects, taking the total value of grants for mainland earthquake victims to HK$...
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