Extreme Winter Weather Hits Europe
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A couple walks during a heavy snowstorm on mount Penteli in northern Athens, Greece. Ferry services have been canceled at three main ports, as high winds and a bout of winter weather dumped snow around the country.
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Palle-Jooseppi, a male brown bear, wakes up after winter hibernation at Ranua Zoo in Ranua, Finland. After a short stroll he decided to continue a nap in a soft snow bank.
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A man climbs on big chunks of melting ice moving on the Danube River in Belgrade, Serbia.
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A woman makes her way along snow covered buildings in Lech, western Austria.
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A cat stands in front of a house surrounded by snow in Tiefenbach, southern Germany.
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People break the ice on a frozen part of the Danube River in Belgrade, Serbia. Big chunks of melting ice moving on the Danube River have damaged hundreds of small boats and several restaurants located on rafts.
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A cyclist crosses the Freedom Bridge in Budapest, Hungary, as snowstorms make traffic difficult in most of the country.
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A snow blower clears snow from a street in Lofer, Austria. Due to a heavy snowstorm in many parts of the country the ski lifts are closed and the snow causes a higher risk of avalanches in alpine regions.
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People walk along Arbat street during a heavy snowfall in Moscow, Russia.
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Workers arrive at an ice-bound power plant in Obilic, Kosovo.
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Workers try to break the ice wrapped around a section of Kosovo's main power plant in Obilic.
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A woman shovels the snow from the entrance of her house in Glodeanu Silistea village, Romania.
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A see bird walks on the frozen canal de L'Ourcq in Paris, France.
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A man shovels snow from his courtyard in Varasti village, near Bucharest, Romania.
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A man walks past an ice covered car on the frozen waterside promenade at Lake Geneva in the city Versoix, Switzerland. The deadly cold snap that has gripped Europe for more than a week wrought more havoc across the continent, straining emergency services, and grounding flights.
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A pedestrian walks along the ice covered landscape of the Tamina gorge in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland.
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A lion cub plays with a snowball at the Belgrade Zoo in Serbia, where nearly 70,000 people are still cut off from their villages and 32 municipalities have declared a state of emergency, mostly in the south and southwest of the country.
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A view of the Cannaregio channel, partially iced because of unusually low temperatures in Venice, Italy.
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Pigeons sit on top of a frozen fountain in Munich, Germany.
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Icicles hang from gargoyles on the Duomo gothic cathedral in Milan, Italy.
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Skaters test the ice on the frozen Keizersgracht canal in Amsterdam, Netherlands, as temperatures dropped well below freezing for several days.
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Lampposts are covered in ice in the Adriatic coastal town of Senj, Croatia.
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A man rides on his unicycle through the snow covered City Park in central Budapest, Hungary.
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A view of the ancient forum in Rome. Heavy snowfalls in Rome caused the normally mild weathered Italian capital to grind to a halt.
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A swan swims its way through a partially frozen artificial lake in Basiglio, near Milan, Italy.
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A woman pulls two children in a plastic tub mounted on skis over one of Amsterdam's frozen canals in the Netherlands.
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A frozen fountain in Duisburg, Germany.
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Drivers put snow socks on to their cars during a heavy snowfall at the toll stations of Malgara near the Greek port city of Thessaloniki.
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Smoke rises from chimneys on a cold foggy winter morning near Weimar, Germany.
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A transport ship makes its way through the ice on the Rhine-Herne canal in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Many canals and rivers in Germany are closed because of the ice.
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A Russian man climbs out from an ice hole after swimming in a lake on the outskirts of St.Petersburg, Russia.
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Icicles hang from a roof in Hochfilzen, Austria.
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Ice crystals hang from a water wheel at the technical museum in Annaberg-Buchholz, Germany.
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A homeless man rests on a bench in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. Hundreds of homeless have died due to the frigid temperatures.
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German Red Cross volunteer Ruediger Kunz checks shoes donated for the homeless in Berlin, Germany. The Waermebus, a program ran by the German Red Cross, assists the homeless in times of extremely low temperatures with blankets, food, clothing and lodging. Nearly 300 people across Europe have died during the current cold wave, a majority of whom were without shelter.
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A Montenegrin woman clears a path through snow in the village of Medjurijecje. One person was found frozen to death in a village in Montenegro and many hamlets in the mountainous north were cut off from electricity and transportation. Rescuers managed to evacuate 120 people, among them 31 school children from neighboring Albania on a field trip.
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A man walks with his dog in a park in Bucharest, Romania. Temperatures plunged to nearly 20 degrees below zero in central Romania.
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A woman looks out of a window covered in frost on a bus in Bucharest. At least 11,000 villagers have been trapped by heavy snow and blizzards in Serbia's mountains.
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A group of skiers walks up to a snow covered church on top of the Wendelstein mountain near Bayrischzell, southern Germany. After a period of relatively mild weather a cold spell has reached central and eastern Europe.
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People walk in the snow in Istanbul, Turkey. Weather authorities forecast that the cold snap will continue throughout the country in the coming days as heavy snow and cold weather, reaching -10 degrees Celsius paralyzed life in Istanbul and closed several roads in eastern Turkey.
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People walk on the frozen shores of the Black Sea at dusk in Constanta, Romania. Temperatures dropped to -30 Celsius in some regions, causing power outages and traffic chaos and prompting authorities to close schools and nurseries.
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A woman walks in the center of Kiev during -20 Celsius frost.
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A man walks past snow covered cars in central Belgrade.
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A covered pug dog strolls on a street in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on a cold winter day. Germany faces freezing temperatures coming from Russia down to -15 degrees Celsius.
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Scooters and motorbikes are covered with snow as they are parked in downtown Rome.
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A homeless man comes out from the Warsaw's underground heating duct where he lives.
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Anna Svrcinova, a homeless women, sits in an abandoned factory that served her as a shelter during a cold night in Prague, Czech Republic.
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A window covered in frost in Godewaersvelde, northern France.
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Pedestrians watch icicles of the Partnachgorge, Partnachklamm, in southern Germany.
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Reed sprouts are covered with thick ice at lake Zwischenahner Meer ind Bad Zwischenahn, northern Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. After a period of relatively mild weather a cold spell has reached central and eastern Europe. (AP Photo/dapd, David Hecker)
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People walk on frozen Black Sea waters next to an ice covered dam in Constanta city, near Bucharest.
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Bosnian people wave to helicopter crew as they wait for food supplies in a remote village, cut off by road due high snow fall, near the Bosnian town of Sokolac, 70 kms east of Sarajevo. Rescue helicopters are airlifting supplies and evacuating dozens of people from snow-covered villages in Bosnia.
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A man walks as snow and frozen wind billows cross the region, in Roncesvalles, northern Spain.
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Snow covered trees in Rubi, Spain.
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A polar bear enjoys the fresh snow in the zoo in Berlin, Germany.
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