More than 220 dead as Europe freezes

A man walks as snow and frozen winda billow across Roncesvalles, northern Spain. Picture: Alvaro Barrientos / AP

TEMPERATURES have plunged to new lows in Europe, where a week-long cold snap has now claimed more than 220 lives as forecasters warn the big freeze will tighten its grip over the weekend. 

More winter? The groundhog says...

Amy DiLuna writes

 

Yes!

The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club made their decree Thursday morning in central Pennsylvania: Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, and there'll be six more weeks of winter. The announcement was met with boos from the enormous crowd gathered in Punxsutawney.  

The nations weather

Weather Underground Forecast for Thursday, February 02, 2012.

More active weather is anticipated in the East on Thursday. In the north, wintry precipitation in northern New England will taper down as the trough of low pressure affecting the region exits and high pressure builds in from the northwest. To the south, a cold front over the Eastern Valleys will drop southeastward as it pushes toward the East Coast,