The U.S. state of Texas was dangerously close to a long-term outage during last week's severe winter storm, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) said Wednesday.
Moscow is facing huge traffic jams at 4:00 a.m. local time (01:00 GMT) on Saturday because of heavy snowfall, the traffic monitoring service of the Yandex company shows.
Spain recorded “historic” temperatures overnight from Monday to Tuesday, the mercury dropping to -25.4 ° C and complicating snow removal, especially in the capital Madrid, where many streets remained blocked.
According to forecasters, another snowstorm has brought 70 mph icy blasts and up to 25 cm (10 inches) of snowfall, painting Britain white, as temperatures dropped to 5 degrees below zero Celsius.
Two more people died in Ireland, bringing the total number of deaths to three in the country since it was hit by a powerful snowstorm about a week ago, reported local media on Sunday.
A seven-year-old girl died in Looe, Cornwall in South West England when a car careered off the road into a house as arctic storms swept Britain Thursday, bringing the death toll to 10.
A severe snowstorm hit most parts of Ireland on Wednesday, leaving local resident's lives and businesses in the country seriously disrupted, reported local media.
WASHINGTON -- A monstrous winter storm battered the U.S. East Coast on Saturday and appeared poised in some areas to dump a lot more snow than initially expected.
The U.S. capital city of Washington, D.C. on Friday nervously braced for a potentially historic winter storm, two days after botched response by local authorities to a snowfall paralyzed the whole town.
Authorities in Virginia and Washington, D.C. issued on Thursday a state of emergency as the Washington area and the northeast of US are bracing themselves for a blizzard over the weekend that was expected to bring up to two feet of snow in part of the region.
Snowstorms swept across a vast area of north China yesterday, disrupting traffic, grounding flights and slowing down bullet trains in Beijing, Tianjin and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
People in the northeastern U.S. city of Boston will look forward to the arrival of spring Friday after enduring the city's highest winter season snowfall on record.
Lebanon has been since Thursday in the grip of storm “windy”, with snow
reaching shores and temperature significantly dropping in the third
storm to hit the country this year.
The winter of 2014-2015 continues to bring further bouts of extreme weather, with southern states set to experience the worst of the next storm system.
People across New England are facing extreme cold as they attempt to dig themselves out of another major snowfall, following Sunday’s storm.
A massive blizzard has hit the US Northeast, halting thousands of flights and closing hundreds of schools. Officials warned that the storm could dump as much as 90cm of snow on the region.
Over 400 people have been rescued in Nepal after a popular trekking route was hit by a major blizzard and avalanches earlier this week, the Trekking Agencies' Association of Nepal (TAAN) said Sunday.
“A total of 407 [181 Nepalis and 226 foreigners] have been rescued so far,” TAAN said in a statement citing Nepal’s Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation.