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Weather : Extreme Cold

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Here in the northern hemisphere spring is but a rumor. Record snowfalls have taxed budgets and patience, and slowed transit from planes to pedestrians. Not that some aren't enjoying the abundance, as winter sports play out on beautiful frozen blankets of snow. Gathered here are images of people struggling with and enjoying their wintery blasts. -- Lane Turner (47 photos total)

Ice crystals form frost on the window of a home in Medina, Minn. on January 21, 2013. (Richard Sennott/The Star Tribune/Associated Press)

People visit the 15th International Sculpture Symposium "Snow Kingdom 2013" in Pustevny, Czech Republic on January 16, 2013. (Radek Mica/AFP/Getty Images) #

Arielle Gold of the US eats snowflakes on the podium after the snowboard halfpipe finals at the FIS Snowboard World Championships in Stoneham, Quebec on January 20, 2013. (Mathieu Belanger/Reuters) #

Vineyards winter under snow near Ebingen, Germany on February 8, 2013. (Patrick Seeger/dpa/Associated Press) #

Snow covered containers create a pattern in the port of Rotterdam, The Netherlands on January 15, 2013. (Robin Utrecht/AFP/Getty Images) #

Around 2,000 people make snow angels at the University of Minnesota Duluth on February 9, 2013, in Duluth, Minn. The event was held to try to break the world record of 8,962 snow angels in one area set in 2007 in Bismarck, N.D. (Clint Austin/The Duluth News-Tribune/Associated Press) #

Climbers clear snow from the roof of the stadium of FC Bayern Munich in Munich on January 18, 2013. (Joerg Koch/dapd/Associated Press) #

Competitors get ready to take part in the UK Cold Water Swimming Championships at Tooting Bec Lido on January 26, 2013 in London. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) #

Children pour cold water on themselves under the control of fitness coach Margarita Filimonova at kindergarten number 317, with the air temperature at about minus 23 degrees Celsius, in Krasnoyarsk, Russia on February 5, 2013. The program has been practiced by the kindergarten for 15 years. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters) #

South Korean special warfare forces take part in a winter season drill in Pyeongchang on January 9, 2013. (Dong-A Ilbo/AFP/Getty Images) #

A man crosses himself after plunging into cold water to mark Epiphany in St.Petersburg, Russia on January 19, 2013. (Dmitry Lovetsky/Associated Press) #

Participants of the National Championship Marathon at the Veluwemeer (Lake Veluwe) compete near Elburg, The Netherlands on January 25, 2013. (Vincent Janninck/AFP/Getty Images) #

Swedish freeride skier Jon Oerarbaeck speeds down deep powder snow during a freeride skiing tour on Seegrube Mountain in Innsbruck on January 19, 2013. (Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters) #

People play after a heavy snowstorm in the desert near Tabuk, Saudi Arabia on January 9, 2013. (Mohamed Alhwaity/Reuters) #

Miguel Sanchez, 16, flies off a ramp of snow on February 22, 2013 in Garden City, Kan. (Brad Nading/Garden City Telegram/Associated Press) #

A pony runs in the snow near Warsaw, Poland on February 7, 2013. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images) #

A man skates past ice sculptures at a festival at the "Eight Lakes" Park-Resort outside Almaty, Kazakhstan on January 14, 2013. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters) #

Adam Bloss, an inmate at the Moriah Shock Incarceration Correctional Facility, cuts ice blocks from Lake Flower to be used in the construction of the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival ice palace on January 28, 2013, in Saranac Lake, N.Y. (Mike Groll/Associated Press) #

People ride an ice bicycle on frozen Houhai Lake on February 3, 2013 in Beijing. (Feng Li/Getty Images) #

A stuntman jump his snowmobile before the 1st stage of the Rally Sweden, the second round of the FIA World Rally Championship on February 7, 2013 in Karlstad, Sweden. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images) #

Anzhi Makhachkala's Ivorian striker Lacina Traore walks through the snow during a UEFA Europa League football match against Hannover 96 in Hanover, Germany on February 21, 2013. (Patrik Stollarz/AFP/Getty Images) #

A youth who has turned or will turn 20 this year, the traditional age of adulthood in Japan, speaks on a mobile phone following a coming of age ceremony at an amusement park in Tokyo on January 14, 2013. (Shizuo Kambayashi/Associated Press) #

People cross a bridge in Bolton Abbey, England on January 14, 2013. (Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images) #

Snow is cleared off the roof of a house boat in Srinagar, Kashmir on January 18, 2013. (Rouf Bhat/AFP/Getty Images) #

Retired teacher Gao Yinyu, 77, prepares to go for a swim in the nude in Jilin, China in -25 degrees Celsius

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A snowman greets pedestrians on January 19, 2013 in Paris. (Mehdi Fedouach/AFP/Getty Images) #

Anwar Ali, 13 (left) and his brother Hamad, 8, warm themselves while waiting for customers to pose for a picture next to a snow statue they built on a roadside in Murree, Pakistan on January 9, 2013. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press) #

A man warms himself on a foggy winter day in Dhaka on January 10, 2013. Bangladesh recorded its lowest temperature in 45 years. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters) #

Icicles form in an orange grove in Redlands, Calif. on January 15, 2013. A cold snap had farmers struggling to protect a $1.5 billion citrus crop. (Jae C. Hong)/Associated Press) #

A commuter looks through a snow covered window of a tram in Minsk, Belorussia on January 17, 2013. (Victor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images) #

A member of the ground staff clears snow from a C-17 cargo aircraft at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, England on January 14, 2013. (Andrew Winning/Reuters) #

"Wild' Silvesterchlaeuse (New Years Clauses) wearing costumes and cow bells march through the snow near Unaesch, Switzerland on January 12, 2013. They walk from house to house to offer best wishes for the New Year to the farmers in this region. After a performance of singing and dancing they usually receive food, hot drinks or money. (Walter Bieri/Keystone/Associated Press) #

A seagull stands on Galata Tower in Istanbul on January 9, 2013. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images) #

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish boy builds a snow man at the Western Wall on January 9, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) #

A commuter ferry crosses the harbor in Halifax, Nova Scotia on January 23, 2013. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press/Associated Press) #

Snow clings to trees in Westonbirt Aboretum on January 24, 2013 near Tetbury, England. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)#

Gale Force winds make spectacular waves at the harbour in Seaham, England as they batter the seafront on February 6, 2013. (Owen Humphreys/PA/Associated Press)#

Crews respond to a multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 94 in Benton Township, Mich. on February 19, 2013, after a winter storm dumped several inches of snow. (Don Campbell/The Herald-Palladium/Associated Press)#

People shelter from the snow while walking along the Charles Bridge in Prague on February 12, 2013. (Vit Simanek/CTK/Associated Press)#

People walk through snow covered streets in Copley Square during a blizzard in Boston, Mass. on February 9, 2013. (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters)#

Afghan men walk on a snow-covered mountain on a cold winter's day outside Kabul on February 7 , 2013. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images)#

Chicago Fire Department Lieutenant Charley De Jesus walks around an ice-covered warehouse that caught fire January 23, 2013. (John Gress/Reuters)#

A barge motors out of Portland Harbor, where the temperature at sunrise was about minus 5 degrees Fahrenheit, on January 24, 2013, in Portland, Maine. (Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press)#

An odd weather phenomenon called "cloud streets" cover the Great Lakes on January 22, 2013, seen by NASA's Aqua satellite. (NASA/AFP/Getty Images)#

Japanese macaque monkeys huddle together against the cold at Awajishima Monkey Center on January 26, 2013 in Sumoto, Japan. (Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images)#

A man walks through a courtyard in Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha, Russia on February 3, 2013. The coldest temperatures in the northern hemisphere have been recorded in Sakha. (Maxim Shemetov/Reuters)#

A young woman breaks slabs of frozen snow floating on high water in Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy on February 11, 2013. (Andrea Merola/EPA)

Oymyakon

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Oymyakon is a small town in Northeasten Russia. It's the Pole of Cold. Average temperature in June is -50C. The lowest ever recorded was -71.2C.

Snowy

Let it Snow
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For those who desire a layer of snow with their holiday season it's been mainly green and brown so far this year in the Boston area. Since the start of December, here are some places that have already had the chance to experience the beauty and sometimes annoyance of a winter wonderland. -- Lloyd Young ( 32 photos total)

A train of the Brocken Railway steams through a winter landscape with snow covered pine trees as it approaches its destination on the Brocken mountain in the Harz mountainous region of Germany on Dec 8. (Stefan Rampfel/European Pressphoto Agency)

Europe : Extreme Cold

Frigid temperatures have gripped Europe in the last week, with the mercury reaching as low as 35 degrees Celsius below zero. After what had been a relatively mild winter, the sudden cold caught many unprepared. Eastern Europe is hardest hit, with over 100 deaths in Ukraine, and with over 11,000 people in remote villages cut off by snow in Serbia. Most of the fatalities recorded have been homeless people found frozen to death outside, and emergency tents with hot meals have been set up to help them in several affected countries. Russia and Poland are mobilizing help for the homeless. Travel in Romania has been chaos as a blizzard hampered efforts to clear both rails and roads. Recorded temperatures in Italy were the lowest in 27 years. --Lane Turner (45 photos total)

A woman looks out a bus in Bucharest on February 2, 2012. (Vadim Ghirda/Associated Press)

Snow paints a scene in Rubi, Spain on February 2, 2012. (Manu Fernandez/Associated Press) #

Skiers approach Wendelstein church near Bayrischzell, Germany on January 31, 2012. (Lukas Barth/dapd/Associated Press) #

A homeless man emerges from Warsaw's underground heating duct where he lives on February 2, 2012. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images) #

Homeless men gather in Warsaw's underground heating duct on February 2, 2012. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images) #

A homeless woman, Anna Svrcinova, sits in an abandoned factory that served her as a shelter during a cold night in Prague on February 2, 2012. (Petr David Josek/Associated Press) #

Homeless people eat a hot meal and drink hot tea in one of newly opened tent shelters in Lviv, Ukraine on February 1, 2012. (Yuriy Dyachyshyn/AFP/Getty Images) #

Homeless people eat a free dinner provided by the Russian Orthodox church in Moscow on February 1, 2012. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/Associated Press) #

A homeless man drinks tea in a shelter in Donetsk, Ukraine on February 2, 2012. (Alexander Khudoteply/AFP/Getty Images) #

A woman rests in a shelter for adults and the elderly in Belgrade on February 1, 2012. (Marko Drobnjakovic/Associated Press) #

People carry food supplies in a remote village cut off by road due to high snowfall near Sokolac, Bosnia on February 1, 2012. Rescue helicopters are airlifting supplies and evacuating dozens of people from snow-covered villages in Bosnia as the death toll from Eastern Europe's severe cold spell has risen to 79. (Radul Radovanovic/Associated Press) #

Emin Hotovic, 55, carries a 25-kilo sack of flour and some groceries to his remote village of Hotani, Bosnia on February 2, 2012. (Amel Emric/Associated Press) #

A woman carries firewood in Bucharest on January 31, 2012. (Bogdan Cristel/Reuters) #

A man braves the bitter cold as he makes his way to exercise in a park in Moscow on February 1, 2012. Temperatures in Moscow fell to -21 degrees Celsius. (Mikhail Metzel/Associated Press) #

People walk on frozen Black Sea waters next to an ice-covered dam in Constanta, Romania on February 1, 2012. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Images) #

A snow kiter makes his way on the Schauinsland mountain near Freiburg, Germany on February 1, 2012. (Winfried Rothermel/dapd/Associated Press) #

Television technicians move their equipment from the field as the Italian Serie A soccer match between Parma and Juventus is cancelled due to weather at the Tardini stadium in Parma on January 31, 2012. (Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters) #

Ducks take off from a pond in Minsk, Belarus on February 1, 2012. (Sergei Grits/Associated Press) #

Deer run in a snow-covered field near the village of Mileikovo, Belarus on January 31, 2012. (Sergei Grits/Associated Press) #

A cow looks out of its stable in Davos, Switzerland on February 2, 2012. (Arno Balzarini/Keystone/Associated Press) #

A stray

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sleeps in the snow in Bucharest on January 26, 2012. (Radu Sigheti/Reuters) #

A pug dog strolls on a street in Gelsenkirchen, Germany on February 2, 2012. (Martin Meissner/Associated Press) #

A seagull rests in Istanbul on February 1, 2012. Heavy snow and cold weather paralyzed life in Istanbul and closed several roads in eastern Turkey. (Associated Press) #

A man rides a horse in the village of Vrapce, Serbia on February 1, 2012. (Sasa Djordjevic/AFP/Getty Images)#

A horse-drawn sleigh makes its way on a snowy road in Klosters Monbiel, Switzerland on February 2, 2012. (Arno Balzarini/Keystone/Associated Press) #

A man walks his dog along the banks of the Neris river in Vilnius, Lithuania on January 31, 2012, as morning temperatures plummeted to -23 Celsius. (Mindaugas Kulbis/Associated Press) #

A pedestrian walks past a frosted window in Pristina on February 1, 2012. (Visar Kryeziu/Associated Press) #

A man walks through blowing snow in Roncesvalles, Spain on February 2, 2012. (Alvaro Barrientos/Associated Press) #

Boys play on a frozen pond in Prague on January 31, 2012. (David W Cerny/Reuters) #

Young men enjoy hockey as the sun sets over a frozen dam in Brno, Czech Republic on February 1, 2012. Temperatures in the Czech Republic plummeted to lows of minus 30 Celsius. (Petr David Josek/Associated Press) #

A heating plant obscures the sun in Minsk, Belarus on February 1, 2012 as temperatures of minus 21 Celsius hit the Belarusian capital. (Sergei Grits/Associated Press) #

A passenger boat sails at sunrise in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Ukraine on February 1, 2012. (Andrew Lubimov/Associated Press) #

A small cutter makes its way to the Harmaja lighthouse off the coast of Helsinki on Feburary 1, 2012. (Martti Kainulainen/AFP/Getty Images) #

Icicles hang on the branches of a bush on the banks of the River Elbe in Dresden, Germany on February 2, 2012. (Norbert Millauer/dapd/Associated Press) #

Reed sprouts are covered with ice at Lake Zwischenahner Meer in Bad Zwischenahn, Germany on January 31, 2012. (David Hecker/dapd/Associated Press) #

Frost decorates a window on February 1, 2012 in Godewaersvelde, France. (Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images)#

An Orthodox Christian cathedral stands amid a winter landscape in Kiev on January 30, 2012. (Efrem Lukatsky/Associated Press)#

A van drives along a road near the village of Sliznevo as temperatures fell to minus 34 Celsius outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on January 30, 2012. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)#

People walk through the snow in Istanbul on February 1, 2012. (Associated Press)#

A policeman tries to open the frozen door of his car stuck in a snow drift during a blizzard in Afumati, Romania on January 26, 2012. (Bogdan Cristel/Reuters)#

A man walks in the center of Kiev where temperatures dropped to minus 20 Celsius on February 1, 2012. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)#

A Ukrainian angler, in a tent for protection from the wind and cold, fishes through an ice hole on the Dnipro River outside Cherkasy, Ukraine on February 1, 2012. (Efrem Lukatsky/Associated Press)#