Chinese authorities have ordered urgent measures to be put in place to fight nationwide transport chaos caused by severe weather conditions.
Ice and snowfall caused power cuts that left 100,000 people stranded at train stations in southern China on Sunday.
...Forecasters predict the bad weather will continue for a week, causing travel misery in the run-up to the Lunar New Year holiday on 7 February.
Brutal conditions in recent days have collapsed homes, snapped power lines and destroyed crops across the country.
Parts of China have suffered their worst snowfalls in more than a decade.
In the southern town of Guangzhou, more than 100,000 people have been stranded at the main railway station as power cuts paralysed services.
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Residents in Argentina and Brazil are wondering if this winter will ever end. Buenos Aires recorded this Thursday (November 15th) the lowest November temperature in 90 years. Temperature in the Downtown weather station reached 2.5C. Since records began more than a century ago, only two days had colder lows in November. It was in 1914 (1.6) and 1917 (2.4). And ninety years ago the urban heat island effect was much less pronounced than nowadays. In Brazil's southernmost province Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil temperatures fell to 2.3C. In Sao Joaquim Monday's (Nov., 12) the temperature was -1.2 C with frost.
Icecap.us has more on the latest cooling news including this:
The much colder than usual weather was not confined to Argentina. This Thursday had near-freezing temperatures and frost in Uruguay. Weather stations recorded 1.5șC in Trinidad; 1.8șC in Durazno; 2.4șC in Tacuarembó; 3șC in Artigas; 3.2șC in Melo and Florida; 3.8șC in Treinta y Tres; 4.1șC in Paso de los Toros; 4.6șC in Rivera and 4.8șC em San José.
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