Cold weather
Not just Europe and us.
From
Accuweather:
Cold Temperatures Overnight In India Kill Five People
Low overnight temperatures in Uttar Pradesh, India, killed five people, raising the number of dead to 41.
Nearly one-fifth of the 180 million people in Uttar Pradesh are homeless. It is one of India's poorest states, according to Fox News.
Despite the efforts of New Delhi officials to convince homeless people to stay in city-run shelters, at least 10 people died of exposure over the past two weeks.
New Delhi had two days of lower-than-normal temperatures. "Tuesday, the low temperature was 39 F and Wednesday's low was 40 F," said AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Frank Strait. "There were winds of 5 to 10 mph."
The average January temperature in New Delhi is 58 F.
From
Springfield, MA station WGGB:
Freezing weather leads to south China evacuations
Freezing temperatures have forced the evacuation of nearly 60,000 people from their homes and caused more than $200 million in economic losses in southern China, the government said Wednesday.
Ice and sleet have collapsed the roofs of more than 1,200 homes and forced the evacuation of 58,000 people across the southern regions of Jiangxi, Hunan, Chongqing, Sichuan and Guizhou, the Ministry of Civil Affairs reported.
Freezing weather has also damaged nearly 300,000 acres of crops, including cabbage and rice, and caused about $203.8 million in economic losses across southern China, the ministry said.
In Guizhou province, 22,800 people were forced to evacuate from their homes Tuesday and drivers had to abandon thousands of cars after ice-covered roads were closed, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
"People, especially those living in the mountains and the elderly, are being evacuated from their homes," said a Guizhou Meteorological Bureau official, surnamed Zhao. "Roads and homes with poor infrastructure are being impacted by the icy conditions."
What is interesting is that these are not northern provinces, they are in the South. Here is a
map of the Chinese Provinces and you can see that Jiangxi, Hunan, Chongqing, Sichuan and Guizhou are just a few hundred miles north of Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Myanmar which are very tropical.
Posted by DaveH at January 5, 2011 8:56 PM