Meteorologists warn that the cold snap in the region could continue and temperatures may drop even further.
It's thought that hot pot originated in Mongolia (it's easy to imagine gathering around a coal fire in that cold and wind-swept region).
One thing is certain: The chances for severe weather are on the decline as a cold front moves through the region, said weather service meteorologist Gene Hatch in Springfield, Mo.
On Monday morning, the storm was blowing out to the Atlantic with only isolated thunderstorms and localized heavy rain as a cold front began moving in and clearing the region.
Lack of a coherent U.S. strategy toward the region since the end of the Cold War, no less so since 2001, has allowed other actors to enter and dominate the scene.
The Kara Sea region is remote, sparsely populated and bitterly cold, frozen over for much of the year.
These included how to keep it in cold storage on long journeys to remoter parts of the region from the main vaccine store at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness.
Piccone, of the Brookings Institution, said some leaders in the region are frustrated with what they view as a leftover Cold War attitude in the United States toward Cuba, and they are pushing for changes.
Two separate European wars in the last century, as well as the decades-long Cold War, shifted American strategic focus outward, away from the region that had once been foremost in the minds of American strategists.
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The region still remembers the collapse, after the end of the cold war, of the aerospace industry that once supported blue-collar workers in the area.
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"It used to be at an airport you could get anything you wanted--as long as it's a hot dog or a piece of cold pizza, " jokes Greg Principato, president of the North American Region of the Airports Council International.
And there is something about its ice-cold temperature that just makes salmorejo a good fit with the sun-scorched region.
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Spengler attributes this poke in the eye to a cold calculation by the Pacific rim types that the United States is no longer the region's dominant economic power.
The Cold Spring Harbor district used its built-in snow days after Superstorm Sandy hit the region Oct. 29, she said.
As more miserable weather slams the region, those affected by Superstorm Sandy will be further hampered by high winds, cold temperatures and more beach erosion.
During the Cold War, Washington kept a close eye on Brazil, seeing it as the most influential power in the region.
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The region has seen above-average winter temperatures up to this point, so this is the first big cold snap, making it feel much more severe, he said.
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