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WINTER 2010 IN MONGOLIA

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Mongolia suffers extremely hard winter
Posted: February 7, 2010 4:05 a.m. PT
Mongolia is experiencing a phenomenon called dzud. This phenomenon has caused that eighty percent of the country is buried by snow, which has caused many animal losses. The dzud is a phenomenon that regularly suffers Mongolia.

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extreme is the situation that the Mongolian Government has stated that seven of the 21 provinces are disaster areas. But main evidence that the dzud is taking its toll on Mongolian society is the fact that many Mongolian nomads are moving to Ulan Bator (the capital of Mongolia, home to 33% of the total population), which had not achieved over the years. Due to the extreme
time, a total of 1.4 million head of livestock have died since the beginning of winter.
The dzud is a phenomenon that unites a prolonged drought in summer with heavy snow and extremely cold in winter, causing, in addition to animal losses, the disappearance of native grasses. "From a flock of 500 died about 120 due to extreme cold and lack of food, "said a pastor in the Midwest.
The relocation of nomads to the cities seeking shelter in addition to greatly alter the social balance of the country. Mongolia is the country with the lowest population densities in the world. Just has 1.7 persons per square kilometer (Spain has more than 90 people per square kilometer). Dzud
The last date was in 2001, but was not considered as severe as today.

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NEVADA IN THE PROVINCE OF CORDOBA AND NEWS FROM "CLIMATE CHANGE" TROPICAL STORM

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Juan Carlos A. Paesani - Nevada in the city of Villa Carlos Paz (Province of Córdoba - Argentina) - Barrio Sol and Rio - Wednesday, July 22, 2009 -

A polar cold wave shakes Argentina and Chile with historical snow

A cold snap from Antarctica affects a large part of Argentina and Chile where the wind chill is 16 degrees below zero. Snowfall is the heaviest they have lived these South American countries in the last 50 years.
The heaviest snowfall occurred this morning in southern Buenos Aires province, where he came to accumulate, for the first time in 50 years, between 20 and 40 inches of snow.
In the western province of Mendoza, the snowstorm forced to close the Cristo Redentor, the main road crossing between Argentina and Chile, and about 500 trucks remain pending the reopening of the road in Argentina.
In Federal Capital today the wind chill down to the 0.5 degrees, making it the coldest day of the year in the city, although experts announce that they are expected to decrease at even higher in coming days.
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fear that tropical storm becomes Andrew Hurricane

Mexico issued an alert for the Pacific coast. Forecasters say the force would graze the coast near Manzanillo .

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AP Tropical Storm Andrew was next on Tuesday to become the first hurricane of the season in the Pacific, and whip the southwest of Mexico before the North will fly in front of a populated coast spas. Mexico issued a hurricane warning for the Pacific coast from just south of Manzanillo to near Puerto Vallarta.

The mayor of the port of Acapulco prepared 120 shelters and advised residents to stay at home, especially to the 15,000 people living in areas most at risk of flooding. Heavy rains on Sunday collapsed a few trees in this resort city in Guerrero state. Forecasters said that Andrew probably would graze the coast with hurricane force near Manzanillo.

The forecast track could make landfall tightly around towns such as Barra de Navidad. In this town located in the state of Jalisco, northwest of Manzanillo, Colima, Agapito García Martínez, safety manager for Grand Bay Hotel-Isla Navidad Resort, said the hotel staff was setting up the preparations for the storm, remove beach furniture and protect the windows, but said that had not yet received warnings from the authorities in this regard.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami said at 0900 GMT the center of the storm was 200 kilometers (125 miles) southeast of Manzanillo. Andrew had sustained winds of about 110 kph (70 mph) with higher gusts. It was moving northwest at about 13 kph (8 mph) speed. But it is expected that the storm's winds increase to 120 kph (75 mph) late on Tuesday or Wednesday.

The predicted path shows that will touching the central Mexican coast Tuesday and turn west to just before the tourist resorts of Los Cabos at the tip of the Baja California peninsula Thursday night or Friday. On Sunday night Andrew became the first storm of the hurricane season in the Pacific, which began May 15 and end on 30 November.

The most dangerous period is between July and September. Although it is rare that a named storm like Andrew arise so late in the season in the eastern Pacific. It's been almost 40 years since a storm so late in the season in the east of the ocean.

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