And, 80 below (F) in Jim River, Alaska a couple days ago. A new record for Alaska and the U.S. They're not sure exactly how cold it got because the thermometer broke at -80. Well, the battery died on the measuring device at the reporting station due to the extreme cold.Quote from Lucrum:
Scores die in icy weather across Europe
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-new...icy-weather-across-europe-20120202-1qtxy.html
"...In Romania, temperatures plunged to minus 32.5 C , and six homeless people died in the past 24 hours of hypothermia, the health ministry reported. Hundreds of other people were sent to shelters to protect them from the extreme cold.
Five people died of hypothermia in the last day in Poland, bringing its toll up to 20 since Friday.
Several schools across Hungary suspended classes, including one in the east that said it could not afford the high heating bills. The airport in Montenegro's capital Podgorica was closed down for all flights late Wednesday because of heavy snowfall.
In Russia, temperatures fell to minus 21 C in Moscow but only one person was reported to have died of the cold."
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/01/...ord-nearly-broken-but-murphys-law-intervenes/
