Winter storm
Bulgaria: No Compensation Owed for Recent Power Outages Caused by Snowfall
Electricity distribution operators will not be compensating users for power outages triggered by heavy snowfall across Bulgaria, Energy Minister Rumen Radev confirmed during a parliamentary hearing.
The world is threatened with total chaos? Billions of people at risk
This is according to new analyzes and maps by climatologists of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The lack of snow is not so harmless and it doesn't just mean that we will have less shoveling to do during the winter. It can lead to increased warming and disrupt the availability of food and drinking water for billions of people.
It's still winter, everything's covered in snow: "It's snowing for more than 6 hours"
During the evening hours, the rain turned into a strong snowstorm, which has been going on for a long time. Bearing in mind that the snow that fell a few days ago has not melted, the height of the new white cover will reach over half a meter in some places.
Collapse in Serbia: "Situation's critical"; Cut off from the world; Traffic accidents
During the evening hours, the rain on Zlatibor turned into a strong snowstorm, and there is also a blizzard on Kopaonik, which at 6 a.m. was the coldest in the country with minus eight degrees Celsius.
Competent road services are on standby, and duty teams with heavy machinery will be sent to the ground.
53 winter service truck vehicles on the streets of Belgrade
Flights canceled as wide swath of US braces for winter storm
Airlines canceled hundreds of flights, governors urged residents to stay off roads and schools closed campuses as a huge swath of the U.S. braced for a major winter storm that was set to put millions of Americans in the path of heavy snow and freezing rain.
Firm operating congested highway fined by authorities
Turkish authorities have fined a company that operates the Northern Marmara Highway, where hundreds of vehicles were stranded for long hours during the massive snowstorm last week.
Editorial: Reforming the political system
No one doubts that the management of last week's snowstorm that hit the country hard and for many days disorganised life in the capital was disheartening, to say the least.
Despite the fact that meteorologists had announced the coming storm well in advance, those involved in handling it did not perform effectively.
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A winter storm has left thousands without electricity in the United States
Bad winter on the east coast of the United States has left thousands of homes without electricity and led to flight cancellations.
Two casualties have been reported in North Carolina since the disaster.
Lights come back on in Texas as water woes rise in the South
Many of the millions of Texans who lost power for days after a deadly winter blast overwhelmed the electric grid now have it back, but the crisis was far from over in parts of the South with many people lacking safe drinking water.
Climate Experts: America Should Brace for Even Deadlier Weather
Deadly weather will be hitting the U.S. more often, and America had better get better at dealing with it, experts said Wednesday as Texas and other states battled winter storms that blew past the worst-case planning of utilities, governments and millions of shivering citizens.