It's very cold.

The station can accommodate about 30 winter overs and 120 during the summer.

A small asteroid, say a half mile wide, would touch off firestorms followed by severe global cooling from the debris kicked up Carl Sagan's nuclear winter thing.

September 14 Napoleon arrives in Moscow to find the city abandoned and set alight by the inhabitants retreating in the midst of a frigid winter, the army suffers great losses.

So I was you know, the door was being slammed in my face, it's incredibly cold, and I'm trying to think, What would the hero do in a movie, if I was writing this as a movie script?

The most famous traverse of this frigid sea was made in 1916 by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five others in the adapted lifeboat James Caird when they left Elephant Island and reached South Georgia two weeks later.

One bitterly cold March day, I joined a few friends on a trip to the former camp. Built in the early 1940s as a regular labor camp, Perm 36 was converted into a concentration camp for political prisoners in 1972.

Amid a rough winter in Jordan with little optimism in the air, Ammanis found solace in getting snowed in on Thursday, making it a long white weekend joyfully hyper tweeting and photo sharing snow covered neighborhoods and some whacky snow creations.