27th December - Today's News: Big Snowstorm Sweeps Eastern USA

Hope you all had a good Christmas. It was by far the coldest I've ever experienced with a minima of -13.5c on Christmas Day morning, rising to a daytime max of -5.3c. However, this morning a bit of a thaw has set in with the temperature now up to +1.8c which is the warmest it's been here in Evesham since the 16th (it also just reached +1.8c on the 17th). Drips have resumed but this time they're not forming more icicles. Total, deep, snow cover remains though and some more snow looks likely for a time this evening before the real thaw sets in tomorrow.

However, despite December 'set to be coldest since 1910' (when the England and Wales temperature series began) and warnings that freezing weather set to return across the country (an odd headline given it will be nowhere near as cold today or tomorrow as it was over the weekend and any snow will turn to rain as temperatures rise tomorrow and on Wednesday) the headline news today is that eastern USA hit by winter storm where huge blizzard halts travellers on east coast and snowpocalyse shuts down New York.

Meanwhile, on Vancouver Island, Island Hill sets world snow record

Freezing rain shuts Moscow's airport, cuts power

Flights resume for passengers stuck by snow in Europe

Traditional seasons hep UK's flora and fauna to thrive

Flooding affects more areas of NSW while a Queensland town faces 'worst flood in memory'

Floods, bushfires, snow - one nation's mad day - oh, and getting stuffed in the Ashes as well!

New Zealand's Christchurch hit by strong aftershocks

Another deadly landslide strikes Colombia

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