"It's just a cold, really strong upper low, " said Carol Smith, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard, Calif.

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The project was started by retired British social worker, Carol Lindsay Smith.

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His widow Carol was at the ceremony to see the title awarded along with Culture Secretary Chris Smith.

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Edited by Vogue Features Director Eve MacSweeney, the book is made up of essays by authors including Joan Didion, Margaret Atwood, Patti Smith, Karl Lagerfeld, Carly Simon, George Plimpton, Manolo Blahnik, Anjelica Huston and Joyce Carol Oates paired with iconic images that appeared in Vogue.

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