ICY CONDITIONS IN THE BRITISH ISLES

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5319, 4 February 1947, Page 5

ICY CONDITIONS IN THE BRITISH ISLES

I " LONDON, Feb. 3. I Tempcratures in London rcse I abovt fr M'ziny point throughout I Jesterdny. hringing expeetation of B aa oiid to ihe long freeze-up, but icy g c°nditions continued elsewhere in the ■ fintish Isles. The winter's worst ■ Wizzard swept the south-east coast ■ a"d another raged for seven hours ■ 0ver part of Derbyshire, blocking ■ ®any roads. Drifts isolated high-ly- ■ villages and farms. ■ An unusually severe snowstorm ■ str«ck Eire early to-day, stopping the ■ t'hole telephonic and telegraphic H |steni as the weight of snow eaused ■ the wires to collapse. The glass roofs ■ of a munber of Dublin factories I ^Ved in. Drifts blocked roads ■ '"toughout the country and buses ■ "ad to be duy out. Rain followed, ■ causing floods. ■ Across in Canada, 113 degrees of ■ jr03t are reported in the Yukon, the ■ ,°J'Vest temperature ever recorded on I' a north American Continent. ■ Ce hreakers have had to be used ■ j? 'Ceep open the straits between V entBark and Swe"den. -Ice floes are I , ]aini"ing the Rhine. « I J ■ =