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What are the abnormal climate events in the world in 2009?
Only the year of 20 10 was found. According to a report by China News Service on the 6th, there is a big anomaly in the global climate. In recent days, the northern hemisphere has been hit by strong cold current and record heavy snow. From south Korea to Russia, from western Europe to the great plains of the United States, they were paralyzed by cold and heavy snow. In the equatorial region and the southern hemisphere, heavy rains in the past week triggered floods and mudslides in Kenya, Australia and Brazil, killing hundreds of people and displacing thousands. The snow in Asia is amazing. The snow in Northeast Asia is the most amazing, which plunged this region into the harshest winter in 60 years. After the heavy snowfall in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, on the 4th, it was hit by a cold current in the early morning of the 5th, and the temperature dropped to minus 10 degrees Celsius, which turned the snow in Seoul into ice and made the road for office workers slippery. There are also blizzards and avalanches on Sakhalin Island. In northern and eastern India, more than 60 people froze to death, mostly homeless vagrants. The government of the northern province near Nepal urgently distributed blankets and firewood to help the poor cope with the cold current. It's freezing in western Russia, and it's snowing in the Baltic Sea and Central and Northern Europe. Poland was more seriously affected, with at least 13 people freezing to death, making 122 people have died of extreme cold since winter. Serious avalanches in Switzerland Up to now, 10 skiers in Europe have been killed or missing due to avalanches. The most serious one was an avalanche in the Dietger Valley on the 3rd, which buried a group of skiers and rescuers alive. 18 people were lucky to be rescued, but 7 people were killed. 1 people are missing. According to the police, this is one of the worst avalanches in Switzerland in the past decade. In Italy, emergency personnel are busy dealing with the rare cold and heavy snow, the northeast highway is closed, and the military even dispatched helicopters to transport medical supplies to Sicily. It is extremely cold in western Europe. The weather in western Europe has been very cold since winter. In 20091February, six countries broke the record of low temperature, and this cold weather will last for at least another week. Britain was hit by a once-in-a-century snowstorm, and the temperature dropped to MINUS 1 0 degrees Celsius on May 5th. The authorities issued an emergency weather warning, which seriously affected the land and air traffic in Britain. It is expected that there may be a shortage of natural gas supply in the country. Millions of people's lives were disrupted, more than a thousand schools were closed, and people went to supermarkets to snap up goods and hoarded them at home. Experts pointed out that from the current phenomenon of severe cold weather, unless the atmosphere changes suddenly, it is difficult to warm up. It is expected that the cold weather in Britain will last for several weeks. In the next few days, the temperature in Germany will still hover around MINUS 20 degrees Celsius, and there will be continuous snowfall. Austria has long been used to the "white" winter, but this year's temperature has dropped to-8 degrees Celsius at night and-3 degrees Celsius during the day, which is difficult for even native Austrians to adapt to. Meteorologists predict that there will be light snow in Austria in the coming days. In the eastern United States, the temperature in North Dakota reached the lowest temperature of MINUS 46 degrees Celsius in the United States on the 4th. On the morning of the 5th, the weather in most parts of the United States was very cold. According to the forecast, the relevant areas will not pick up this week. Minneapolis, Minnesota, is bitterly cold, with temperatures as low as MINUS 17 degrees Celsius. Even Florida, which is usually sunny, is getting cold. The state government advises people, tourists and farmers to get ready, and the temperature will drop to around zero degrees Celsius this week. In Canada, at least two people died in cold weather. The snow on the east coast is as high as 30 cm, and the temperature in Toronto is generally below-13 degrees Celsius. The floods in Brazil ravaged the northern hemisphere, and the cold current struck, but the southern hemisphere was hit by heavy rains and floods. The inland area of New South Wales has been affected by torrential rains for several days, turning it into a Wang Yang, and hundreds of rural houses have been flooded. In the town of Kunanbul, 500 kilometers northwest of Sydney, 1200 people were evacuated from their homes and placed in temporary shelters on higher ground. The water level of a river flowing through the town once rose to 5. 14 meters, approaching the highest record in 40 years, but it fell back on the 4th. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has caused floods and landslides since the 2nd, killing at least 85 people and leaving dozens missing. Two nuclear power plants may have to be shut down. More than 4000 people have been evacuated in the local area. The Kenyan Red Cross Society said on the 4th that heavy rains in Kenya in the past week triggered floods and mudslides, which killed at least 20 people and left about 30,000 people in urgent need of assistance.