They number some 200 families and growing, huddled around plastic tents that work as temporary shelter during summer but will do little to protect them from the frost of winter.

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Weather conditions similar to 2012 occurred in the winter of 1942, when the U.S. Midwest was unusually warm, and when the Wehrmacht encountered the formidable forces of "General Frost" in a Russian winter not unlike the one Russians just had.

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Dark sand shown in one photo pokes through bright, crisp frost structures that formed in the previous winter.

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An annual winter chills the southern hemisphere, creating around the pole a frost composed in large part of frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice.

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