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Bitter cold, snow raise Europe death toll
LONDON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Extreme cold and heavy snow in Europe has killed more than 300 people, impeded travel and left about 50,000 without power, officials say.

Snow Blankets Croatia’s Palms as Cold, Winds Hamper East Europe Rescuers
Blizzard conditions, record-low temperatures and high winds persisted from Bulgaria to Baku, disrupting transportation and complicating efforts to respond to a calamity that has claimed hundreds of lives in central and eastern Europe in the last week.

Snow Cuts Off Hundreds of Villages in Eastern Europe
(Adds Ukrainian death toll, Serbian power supplies) By Irina Ivanova [More]

63rd Sapporo Snow Festival gets underway
The world-famous Sapporo Snow Festival has opened in the northern Japan city, where heavy falls of snow have ensured that sculptors taking part in the annual competition have plenty of raw material to work with.

Snow: Where, when, how much, how likely?
Light snow is possible Wednesday for all of Pennsylvania, except perhaps for Philadelphia.

Where’s the snow? Texas town has more this winter than Chicago
Snow has been missing in action for much of the United States the past couple of months. But it’s not just snow. It’s prtactically the entire winter season that’s gone AWOL.“What winter?” asked Mike Halpert, deputy director of the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center. For the Lower 48, January was the third-least snowy on record, according to the Global Snow Lab at Rutgers ...

Where's The Snow? Not In Lower 48, But Elsewhere
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Snow has been missing in action for much of the U.S. the last couple months. But it's not just snow. It's practically the season that's gone AWOL. "What winter?" asked Mike Halpert,