On November 14, the temperature in Russia's Siberian cities is -28 degrees Celsius (-18.4 degrees Fahrenheit)
Schools in Russia's Siberian cities of Tyumen and Khanty-Mansiysk have been closed on Monday due to severe frost, the Khanty-Mansiysk Department of Education said.
"We have cancelled classes in the first to ninth grades as the temperature today is minus 28 degrees Celsius (-18.4 degrees Fahrenheit)," the department noted.
"Because of the low temperature, classes in the first to fourth grades have been cancelled in Tyumen," the city administration told TASS.
NOAA backtracks on warm winter forecast for Europe and Asia as record snow blankets Stockholm, Sweden and -50F below normal temperatures across central Asia.
Japan below normal temperatures and 75% of oceans across the planet are cooling as well.
Extremely heavy snow hit the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in Northwest China last Thursday. The three-day blizzard has impacted more than 160,000 sheep, who were forced to hurry to safety.
The extreme weather since has left more than 160,000 head of sheep in danger around Altay in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Most of the sheep were on their way from their summer grazing areas to their winter ones. But now they can hardly move.
Local authorities have had to initiate emergency measures to help move the sheep to their grazing destination in time. But the blizzards are so severe that even rescuers are finding it difficult to reach the trapped sheep in time.
Parts of Ukraine and Romania were hit by snowfall totaling more than 20 cm (8 inches) on Sunday evening.
As per the weatherman, even more snow storm is likely to bash the region by Monday. However, possibilities of the snow storm ending on Monday is also expected.
The worst snow storm has already hammered areas of Western Ukraine and northern Romania. However, this time, central and eastern Ukraine along with parts of southern Russia are most likely to witness moderate to a few heavy snow spells into Monday morning.
Moreover, snow will abate off by Monday with just some light snow making its appearance over Eastern Ukraine and Southern parts of Russia particularly during the afternoon hours.
However, as per the experts, the hefty and wet snow can also result in number of power outages throughout Ukraine creating travel chaos as well.
Phil Davies Travel Weekly Mon, 14 Nov 2016 19:31 UTC
Alpe d'Huez, France
The prospects of a good European ski season heighted after Alpine ski resorts opened up to a month early on Friday after the best November snowfall for 20 years.
Resorts such as Verbier, Courchevel and Alpe d'Huez in the northern Alps laid on festivities to welcome tourists for what they said would be an exceptional weekend of skiing.
With temperatures dropping, even some low-lying areas are expected to open before the usual start of the season next month, according to The Times.
With 50cm of snow falling on the highest slopes at Courchevel, the local tourist office laid on concerts and a giant tea party for those skiers who made it through traffic jams to reach the slopes.
Officials at Courchevel said that skiing would be free over the weekend while Alpe d'Huez slashed prices from โฌ51 to โฌ18 a day.
James Cove, editor of PlanetSki.eu, said: "These are the best November snowfalls since 1996 in the north-west Alps.
"It is amazing that we have had this level of snowfall so early in the winter, with the whole of the European Alps already covered in snow."
Robert Felix Ice Age Now Sat, 12 Nov 2016 21:17 UTC
Fatal accidents, floods, roads cut by snow
8 Nov 2016 (Excerpts) - "It is cold, rain and snow have fallen in abundance on several regions of the country. These incidents caused several fatal accidents on the roads .... at least 8 people were killed and 48 others injured in road accidents in several parts of the country.
"Road traffic in the capital has been severely disrupted by inclement weather and interminable traffic jams have formed around the main roads in Algiers.
"In the west of the country, the army had to intervene to reopen roads, blocked by snow, especially in Sidi Bel Abbes."
Eric Leister Accuweather Sat, 12 Nov 2016 21:09 UTC
A potent storm system will track across eastern Europe, unleashing significant snowfall and strong winds.
Areas expecting accumulating snowfall include northern Romania, northern Moldova, eastern Hungary, eastern Slovakia, southeast Poland and much of northern and western Ukraine.
A mix of rain and snow will begin on Saturday across the region before transitioning to all snow across western Ukraine, southeast Poland and eastern Hungary. Snow will continue into Sunday night for many areas.
Snow will fall heavily at times from the Carpathian Mountains northward to Lviv and Kiev on Sunday. Widespread snowfall of 15-30 cm (6-12 inches) is expected throughout this region with local amounts in excess of 30 cm (12 inches).
The heaviest snowfall in Lviv on Sunday and in Kiev from midday Sunday into Sunday night.
Central Sapporo was covered in 23 centimeters of snow at 11 a.m. on Nov. 6, the first time in 21 years a snowfall exceeding 20 cm has been recorded in the city in early November.
A low pressure system passed over Hokkaido on Nov. 6, leading to the snowfalls in many parts of Japan's northernmost main island, according to the Sapporo Regional Headquarters of the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Before sunrise on that day, sweeper vehicles equipped with "sasara" bamboo brooms were dispatched to clear the snow from the municipal tram network. It was the first use of the special snowsweepers this season, and it came 18 days earlier than in the previous year.
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