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>From AccuWeather.com Bitter Cold Follows East Asian SnowstormUpdated: Monday, January 04, 2010 2:30 PM The heaviest snowfall in generations from Beijing, China, to Seoul, South Korea, yielded as of Monday to bitter, dry arctic cold.In Beijing, the weekend snowstorm left between 6 and 12 inches of snow, said to be the city’s heaviest in nearly […]

>Images taken this morning from various areas across Lake of Menteith Courtesy of Mark Vogan Inchmahome Priory (on an island out in the Middle of Lake of Menteith) Up close and personal with a pressure crack Pressure Crack Hamlet of Port of Menteith Lake of Menteith, Stirlingshire, Scotland with 9-12 inch thick ice which allows […]

>Todays Extremes here at my houseHigh 30 degrees (3.23pm) Low 21 degrees (8.45am)RAIN/SNOW: NoneSnowcover: 1″A windy overnight which held temperatures up but made it feel cold. Even at 3am, the temperature was still a mild 28 degrees but as winds slackened, temperatures began falling fast and bottomed out at 21 degrees around sunrise. A brilliantly […]

>Hiker Christine Harris was stunned to find a snow-covered step ladder, used to help walkers get over a fence, while with her husband Roy on the summit of Plynlimon in Mid WalesRead more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1239908/Britains-big-freeze-hit-return-work-forecasters-issue-new-ice-alert-drivers.html#ixzz0baZkpTT6 (Photo by Mark Vogan) Man walking on frozen Lake of Menteith, Stirlingshire ( Photo by Mark Vogan) Lake of Menteith, Stirlingshire […]

> COLDEST IN MY LIFETIME As days grow longer, the Cold grows bolder… From Dec 19 to Jan 3, it’s been nonestop, question is when will it stop? We’re sitting at 22 degrees as of 9am after a low of 21 at 8.45am. Glasgow is at 25 degrees. This cold wave is growing long and […]

> Teesdale, Cumbria AI near Gateshead AI near Morpeth M62 near Rippondon (All Images courtesy of the Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1239908/Britains-big-freeze-hit-return-work-forecasters-issue-new-ice-alert-drivers.html) As the cold pattern continues for the UK which is NO SURPRISE as this winter pattern was forecast for the UK by this blogger since Nov 1 officially and since summer unofficially, newspapers are already […]

> Windchill Danger Now that we are seeing severe cold punish particularly the Plains this morning, strong winds blowing through 10 to 30 below zero air is making for extremely dangerous windchills. Wind chill danger must be taking seriously. Many folks year in and year out go outside unsuitably dressed and they suffer frostbite. The […]

>An Exciting Pattern unfolding if you like it cold!(Graphics courtesy of AccuWeather.com and The Weather Channel)www.accuweather.com www.weather.com It’s cold now with teens below zero already shivering the Twin Cities as of this hour whilst International Falls, the ice box, is now creeping through the mid thirties below zero… Ouch! This folks is going to become […]

>Winter now grabbing hold of the US as expected. Minneapolis may fall to -15 degrees tonight, Chicago near zero.. East Coast Storm Tonight a low will trek north up the East Coast and produce an out and out Blizzard from northern New York State to Maine which will likely bring 6-20 inches of snow with […]

>Todays Extremes here at the houseHigh 36 degrees (1.30pm) Low 18 degrees (6.27am)RAIN/SNOW: NoneSnowcover 1-2″ (Approx)The transition of an old year into a new displayed overnight clear skies and lighter winds from the previous day, these conditions combined with snowcover brought the first morning lows down to the teens in the area since Christmas Eve. […]