112 Now Dead: Brutal European Cold Weather To Ease Soon

[katharnak]

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AccuWeather.com reports some relief from the extreme cold gripping eastern Europe is on the horizon, but cannot come soon enough for residents. The cold has claimed at least 112 lives.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
Widespread subzero cold from the depths of Siberia will continue to have a firm hold on Ukraine, Poland and surrounding countries tonight.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
Overnight lows will rival the dangerously cold temperatures endured Thursday morning.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
The good news is that the cold Friday night will not be as extreme across Ukraine as clouds and snow spill northeastward. The disadvantage is that the snow will create its own problems for residents.[/font][/color]
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This weekend, a bit of relief from the brutal cold will come to Poland and Belarus.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
The return of mild temperatures, however, will not follow. Unseasonably chilly air will continue to flow throughout Europe next week, but will fail to produce a repeat of this week's extreme temperatures.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
At least 112 lives have been lost due to the brutal cold in Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria and Russia, according to the Associated Press.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
Since the majority of the dead in Poland and Ukraine were homeless people, officials in the latter nation have set up more than 2,000 tents to prevent other people living on the streets from suffering the same fate.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
Nearly 950 other Ukrainians were hospitalized due to hypothermia and frostbite.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
Temperatures bottomed out at their lowest point so far this week in Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and surrounding countries Thursday morning.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
Warsaw, Poland, endured a low of 4 below zero (F, 20 below zero C), the coldest temperature reading in the city since January 2010.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
Temperatures plummeted to 18 below zero (F, 28 below zero C) in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. Never before in this century have temperatures been that brutally cold.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
Prior to the current cold snap, there have been only four other days this century - all in January 2006 -when temperatures in Kiev dropped under 10 below zero (F, 23 below zero C).[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
In neighboring Boryspil, temperatures bottomed out at 27 below zero (F, 33 below zero) overnight Wednesday.[/font][/color]

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