ARCTIC WEATHER.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1920, Page 5

ARCTIC WEATHER.

DENSE FOG AND INTENSE FROST IN SCOTLAND. London, Not. 15. The 'weather continues extremely severe ill many parts of the country. The keenest frost of the season was experienced on Loch Lonxmside- So dense wis the fog that incoming trains were eereral hours late in reaching Alexandria. Tramcar and other traffic was greatly hindered by the fog. Skating It in full swing. Twelve degrees of frost were regisbred at Hawick. A blhnsrd raged in the Peak of Derbyshire. Traffic is maintained with fte utmost difficulty. Atow hat fallen to a great depth on the moors. Slocks are being removed to the homesteads; Many parts of South Yorkshire are ©low and frost-bound. There was anej&er heavy snowfall this morning, which greatly interfered with traffic. tasting and other forms of sport have lad to be stopped. •To-day is the sixth day of a great in Westmorland. Snow has SMud the roads in all directions, and mountain roads are already impags•tiris. Sheep hare been smothered, and water supplies are frozen. Football ha* -given place to toboganning and skating. tjaarmm w north Yorkshire. TJure were farther snowfalls during the Bight in North Yorkshire, accompanied by several flashes of lightning,, targe numbers of men still remain out of work owing to the bad weather. Snow ploughs wen busy, to-day clearing *fcfoJ4fc --