Winter arrives late, bites hard in Canada, U.S
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Winter arrived late but compensated with a burning blast of cold in parts of eastern Canada and the northern United States on Monday, as plunging temperatures and biting winds made it deadly to be outdoors.
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Snow. Floods. Icy winds. Maybe even a tornado. South Africans are facing one of their harshest winters in years, with at least four deaths blamed on flooding from heavy rain that has caused travel delays in the south and west of the country.
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Residents of the Deep South awoke to a powerful blast of cold weather on Friday, which brought the lowest temperatures of the season to many parts of the United States.
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Supply doesn't come close to meeting demand in North America, tensions high.
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Affected by a weak El Nino, winter  weather in the United States will be warmer in the West and  cooler and wetter in the South and Southeast, forecasters  predicted Thursday.
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Residents in the eastern United States and parts of Canada have driven on treacherously icy roads and dug out of the first major snow storm to hit the region this year.
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TORONTO  -- As winter gets closer, the days get shorter -- and along with a shortage of light, many North Americans may also find themselves short of vitamin D, a potential cancer fighter.
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Bitterly cold winter weather gripped the Midwest on Saturday, and whiteout conditions were blamed for traffic pileups in Michigan and Ohio.  Blizzard warnings were in effect for parts of Michigan, and temperatures reached as low as 17 below zero in the Upper Peninsula.
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TOWER, Minn. Aug. 19, 2004  The calendar may say August, but in this northeastern Minnesota town early Thursday, it was cold. Plenty cold.
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As the first signs of winter push into the US Northeast, American researchers have some good news for fair weather fans - spring is coming earlier than it used to.
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Earlier blooms. Less snow to shovel. Unseasonable warm spells.
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Astronomically, winter officially arrives in North Dakota at 6:22 p.m. Dec. 21. That moment marks the winter solstice, the time at which the sun reaches its lowest point in the sky.
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Frigid temperatures contributed to four deaths Sunday, pushing the toll from a devastating ice and snow storm to 19 as hundreds of thousands waited another day for their electricity to be restored.
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A winter storm battered states from the Plains through the Midwest on Wednesday, sending travelers slipping and sliding over icy roads, dumping a foot of snow over some areas and pushing temperatures to bitter-cold levels.
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Bitter cold that our New England winters can be, we long ago adopted a provincial antidote for the numbing of toes and the shortage of breath: metal grinding against ice and hard rubber hitting against wood.
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Snow and ice storms have stranded hundreds of thousands of people Â most of them migrant workers hoping to leave for the Chinese New Year Â and more blizzards threatened Monday to wreck what for many is a rare chance to see family.
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A major winter storm moved across the Midwest and was expected to arrive in the N.Y. area late this afternoon.