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03 Feb, 2009

Hunkering down in snowy London

Posted by: admin In: Around Beijing| News

By Chris Hampson, NBC News Director of International News

LONDON – And now some really big breaking news from the U.K.: It’s snowing.

Not the sort of chill-you-to-the-bones white stuff that freezes thermometers across whole swathes of the United States, where the snow comes to the eaves and you have to chisel your way out of an upstairs window.










A woman walks past telephone boxes during snow fall in Cambridge
SLIDESHOW: Snow blankets London, Paris
No, this is British snow. Light fluffy cotton-wool stuff you see on pretty calendars in December. 

It’s about 28 degrees Fahrenheit – just below tee-shirt weather in some parts of the world. But here it’s enough to bring much of the country and its capital to a standstill.


It’s chaos.

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