Poland hit by snow and freezing temperatures

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Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

in Society, on the 25th of January 2010

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Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Winter landscape in Fordon on the Vistula River.

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Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

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Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

The frozen Brda river in Bydgoszcz.

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Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

The Vistula River carrying sizeable ice floes near the bridge in Bydgoszcz.

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Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Ice floes on the Vistula may look like white water lilies, bu they can be dangerous, sometimes causing an ice jam and flooding.

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Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

ID: 232724

Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

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Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Ice fishing is a popular pastime in Poland. This winter nobody has to fear thin ice...in fact in some places it is up to 30 cm thick!

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Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

ID: 232727

Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

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Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

As the winter loosened its icy grip, ice floes contiuned to pile up on the banks of the Vistula well into March.

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Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Ice floes piling up on riverbanks

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Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

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Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Bridge over the frozen Vistula River in Bydgoszcz.

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Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

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Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

ID: 232735

Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

ID: 232736

Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

ID: 232737

Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

ID: 232738

Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

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Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Central heating pipes coated with ice in Bydgoszcz.

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Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

ID: 232741

Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

ID: 232742

Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

ID: 232743

Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

ID: 232744

Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

ID: 232745

Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

ID: 232746

Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

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Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Ice fishing on the Bydgoszcz Canal near a lock.

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Winter 2010, Poland, severe weather

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new yea

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Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new year. Bydgoszcz, Poland. 25/01/2010.

Poland has been repeatedly hit by waves of intense cold and heavy snowfalls this winter. Temperatures as low as - 34C ( -25 F) have been recorded on some nights, some areas have recieved up to a meter ( 3ft) of snow since the beginning of the new year. The country is caught off guard by such extreme weather conditions, long delays on airports , trains, buses and hazardous road conditions have paralyzed the transport infrastucture to a degree not seen since the collapse of communism some 20 years ago. The last such severe winter occured in 1979, back then the number of cars on Polish roads was only 10% of the current numbers. What is enjoyed by kids out on holiday is not liked by many commuters. Maria Strzelczyk, a commuter living near Warsaw, has complained that " the suburban trains are routinely thirty minutes late, that is if they come at all. Driving to the city is not much better because the roads are unpassable." Residents in Olkusz, a town near Krakow, have not had electricity for two weeks, some even longer, due to ice storms downing power lines. Ice also causes ice jams on rivers, flooding some villages along the Bug River along the Belorussian border and effectively cutting others from the outside world. Over 200 people, most of them homeless have frozen to death on the streets, prompting the authorities to urge the rest to take advantage of open shelters, yet many are unwilling to move to them due to the ban on alcohol enforced on those premises. Temperatures are expected to stay below normal well into February, and a new snow storm is hitting the country on Jan.27-29. Some pictures included here show the frozen state of the Vistula and Brda rivers and the locals making the most out of this difficult situation.

Tags 2010, blizzard, catastrophe, climate change, cold, cold winter, colour image, extreme weather, snow, snowfall, winter, winter Season

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