Even regions of the Southern Hemisphere had a year with practically no winter temperatures.
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Producers are watching nervously as above-average winter temperatures have caused inventories to build.
Officials say they are investigating the cause of the outbreak, with some experts saying low winter temperatures are to blame.
Average winter temperatures in Novosibirsk are around -13 to -21c in the coldest month (January), and up to 25c in summer.
The country's winter temperatures, however, are one of only two differences between homeless children in Ulan Bator and those, say, in Manila or Rio de Janeiro.
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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.
Ice palaces have been a winter feature of Saranac Lake since 1898, fitting for a quaint mountain village where winter temperatures can plunge to minus 30 during cold snaps.
Mr Stevenson said "Scotland faced its coldest winter temperatures in almost a century - and quite rightly people across Scotland needed to heat their homes to keep warm and safe".
Undeterred by formidably sub-zero winter temperatures, Lars and his crab safari team regularly dive off the side of an inflatable Zodiac to a depth of 25 metres in search of crabs.
This time last year police removed protesters from the Wall Street park where they had camped for almost two months, and cold winter temperatures drove the movement's other outposts indoors.
Open all year round, the Treehotel might attract only the hardiest of souls during the winter as temperatures typically dip to around minus 15 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit).
Franco Aloisio, President of the Parada Foundation created in the mid 90s to help children living in the sewers in Bucharest, said the problem still existed in the city particularly in winter when temperatures drop to minus 15C but there had been an improvement.
If this were to change, and the Earth became unstable, then parts of the world could experience much greater temperature swings than we are used to through any given year, with freezing Arctic temperatures in winter followed by blazing hot temperatures in summer.
In the height of winter, cold temperatures slowed the rate of lay as hens sought to preserve their energy.
Some 22 months into the war -- and despite the world's sympathy -- they face a winter of freezing temperatures and uncertain food.
Inside the greenhouse, lines of bright sodium lights shine down on the growing tomato plants, and the temperature remains a constant, warm 23C -- even in the depths of winter when outside temperatures drop well below freezing.
Parts of the world, most notably Eastern Europe, experienced below-average to extreme cold temperatures this winter.
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After unusually mild temperatures this winter in Paris, it has been freezing the last few weeks.
The villages of Benson in Oxfordshire and Braemar in Aberdeenshire saw some of the coldest temperatures this winter during the night.
Even in midsummer, it feels like winter at Jungfraujoch: temperatures are cooler and the air thinner than in the valley below, and people sled, ski and zip-line across the snow.
As well as high rainfall during the winter, the warm temperatures in February - reaching 17.2C at Aberdeen Airport on Tuesday - have led to rapid snow melt, feeding the hydro schemes.
"It is increasingly difficult for people to live in that area because of the low temperatures - winter is very severe, " Yacoub el-Hillo, the UNHCR director for Middle East and North Africa, told the BBC.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is leading a team of five other explorers in a quest to achieve a feat no other human has managed - to walk across Antarctica in the near permanent darkness and super low temperatures of winter.
Africa's year-round tropical temperatures offer no winter to freeze off disease cycles, so each year nearly half the sweet potato crop fails.
My testing of that car was performed in winter conditions, in low temperatures (well below freezing) and often at highway speeds (occasionally, beyond).
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In Germany, a week of freezing temperatures and this winter's biggest snowfall led to hundreds of road accidents, with the country's third busiest airport--Duesseldorf International--forced to close on Sunday.
Mild temperatures are nice in winter, but snow and brisk sunny weather puts people in the holiday spirit.
The Gas Safe Register is calling for people to get their gas appliances checked before temperatures begin to fall this winter.
Mosquitoes will thrive in the higher temperatures, and predicted increases in winter rainfall would provide ideal breeding conditions.
Changing temperatures in the lake during the winter could have brought stagnant water to the surface, thus asphyxiating entire schools of fish.
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