WAIS Divide itself though, is a circle of tents in the snow.

Rain is common throughout the year, with occasional flurries in winter.

In November 2011 a chunk of ice, the size of an orange, broke through the roof of a private house in Ratingen Hösel, Germany.

That night, Springfield is hit with a massive blizzard and the school is closed, giving Bart another day to study.

2008 began with devastating snowstorms that paralyzed most of central and southern China s transport system, interrupting lives and causing severe material damage.

The mind is a plastic snow dome, the most beautiful, most interesting, and most itself, when, as Elvis put it, it's all shook up.

The Palestinian women's soccer team has a majority of Muslim girls, but the captain, Honey Thaljieh, is a Christian from Bethlehem.

In 1971, a chunk of ice from an aircraft tore a large hole in the roof of the Essex Street Chapel in Kensington, London, and was one trigger for the demolition of the building.

Instead, the worst snowstorm in three years reduced the size of the crowd, prevented special guests from arriving, and hindered efforts to use a solar panel to light up a protest billboard.

Earlier in 2005, landslides and an earthquake in Indonesia, avalanches in India, floods in Pakistan and Ethiopia, and an earthquake in the Islamic Republic of Iran left devastation in their wake.

Well, working with the safe organisms that we normally work with, the chance of an accident happening with somebody accidentally creating, like, some sort of superbug, that's literally about as probable as a snowstorm in the middle of the Sahara Desert.

And I also reported that we'd made this mind blowing discovery this once in a lifetime discovery of towering jets erupting from those fractures at the south pole, consisting of tiny water ice crystals accompanied by water vapor and simple organic compounds like carbon dioxide and methane.

Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten thousand year old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate.

500,000 people are reportedly trapped in villages without electricity, gas or water after a massive snow storm this weekend in Iran's northern provinces, Gilan and Mazandaran.

Because Mongolia was vulnerable to snowfall, drought, flash floods and earthquakes, it had adopted a new law to strengthen its disaster management system and created the National Disaster Management Agency.