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 NEW DELHI: A rather abrupt switch from summer to winter has people in the north scurrying to get their woollens out. Early rains and snowfall in the higher reaches of Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir have caused temperatures to dip sharply.

In the northeast, too, Sikkim witnessed its first snowfall of the season. A severe hailstorm hit Haridwar district, taking locals by surprise. In Laksar village in the district, two people were killed while some were injured due to the hail.

Sugarcane and paddy crops in the area were also damaged. "We could make snowballs with the hailstones, which were the size of golf balls," said Devendra Sharma, a local resident.

"It was the result of a strong western disturbance," said state weather directorate chief Anand Sharma. For three days now, high altitude areas in Uttaranchal, including Auli, Badrinath, Rudranath, Roopkund, Valley of Flowers and Kedarnath, have been receiving snow.

 However, the change in weather did nothing to deter pilgrims and tourists, who have been coming in large numbers to attend the vedic ceremonies that mark the end of the Char Dham yatra. The Kailash Mansarovar yatra route is also two feet under snow, while in Dehra Dun and Mussoorie, the mercury dipped to 21 and 18 degrees Celsius.

In Himachal Pradesh, temperatures dipped six to 10 degrees Celsius below normal following moderate snowfall in tribal pockets of Kinnaur, Lahaul and Spiti and Pangi in Chamba. Vehicles stranded on the Manali-Leh highway for last one day were cleared, on Monday morning, though more snow was expected.

The situation was almost similar in the upper reaches of Kashmir Valley. Sikkim, too, recorded the first snowfall of the season.High altitude tourist spots like Changu and Nathu-la in the east district and Yumthang in the north benefited from heavy snowfall on Saturday night.

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Wisconsin State Journal

Snowfall sets record for Oct. 21
The amount of snow that - briefly - covered Madison's landscape Sunday morning was rare for this time of year.

According to the National Climate Data Center, 2.3 inches of snow fell Saturday night and Sunday morning, a record for Oct. 21. The previous record snowfall was two-tenths of an inch in 1917.

Past big October snows include an Oct. 10, 1990, storm that dropped 3 inches, 3.8 inches that fell on Oct. 26, 1997, and 2.5 inches that fell on Oct. 23, 1929.

This doesn't mean it will be a particularly snowy winter, said meteorologist Tony Neyens with Weather Central. This winter is expected to be near normal for snow levels, if not slightly drier, he said.

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Heavy snowfall stops work of Irkutsk`s airport

The dispatch service of Irkutsk`s airport has reported today that heavy snowfall broke the airport's work for 6 hours, which also led to emergency situations on city's roads.
      Planes were compelled to land in extra airports of Ulan-Ude and Bratsk. The airport restarted functioning only at 21.00pm local time (16.00 Moscow time).
      The number of car accidents has increased several times and the city also faced traffic jams several kilometers long plus many interurban routes were closed today.
      Forecast service informs the citizens of Irkutsk that tomorrow the temperature is expected to go down and reach 15 degrees below zero, which means ice-slick formation.

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Season's first snowfall leaves 7,500 Vermonters without power


The first snow in Vermont caused power outages throughout southern and central areas of the state Friday evening, a spokesperson for Central Vermont Public Service Corp. reported.

At 9 p.m. 7,500 customers were without power, the majority of who were in Windsor County. The outages were caused by trees on power lines, high winds and the wet roads could cause further incidents.

"We will have crews working all through the night and into tomorrow," said Christine Rivers, a spokeswoman for CVPS. The company looks to have power restored to customers sometime Saturday, barring any major additional occurrences.

Scattered outages were reported in Rutland County, in addition to outages in Windham, Franklin and Chittenden.

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Patience wearing thin in Buffalo five days after record snowfall

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - With round-the-clock cleanup continuing five days after a record two-foot snowfall, 125,000 homes and businesses remain without power and tempers are running short in western New York.

People in shelters worry about flooding basements and fallen trees, and elected officials are frustrated with the federal government's response to the storm.

U.S. Representative Brian Higgins criticized the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response in the region as inadequate.

FEMA officials have defended their response, saying they had readied generators and other equipment even before Sunday's disaster declaration that made up to five million dollars in cleanup funds immediately available.

They said damage-assessment teams will tour the region beginning today to gather data for a broader declaration that could trigger programs for individuals.

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All the record breaking low temperatures and record snowfalls all around the world is Bush's fault? An attempt to prove the liberals wrong on global warming.