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Snow, Siberian Cold Blankets Croatia to Eastern Russia
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.

Tompkins: Waterfowlers' interest in snow geese wanes
Tompkins: Waterfowlers' interest in snow geese wanes Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 06:29 p.m., Sunday, February 5, 2012 Texas' coastal prairies attracted the continent's largest wintering population of lesser snow geese, and tens of thousands of waterfowlers throughout ...

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.

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 ...

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