Más de 200 muertos por el frío en Europa y el temporal continúa
Las regiones más afectadas son las de la parte occidental de Ucrania, donde se llega a los 29 grados bajo cero
Vida| 03/02/2012 - 19:27h
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than 200 dead from the cold in Europe and the storm continues
The regions most affected are the western part of Ukraine, where it reaches 29 degrees below zero
Life | 03/02/2012 - 19:27 pm
The regions most affected are the western part of Ukraine, where it reaches 29 degrees below zero
Life | 03/02/2012 - 19:27 pm
International Writing (EFE). - More than 200 people, half of them in Ukraine, have died of the cold wave polar shaken for seven days and eastern Europe this weekend in southern arreciará continent. In Ukraine, the polar cold snap has caused 101 deaths so far, 38 of them in the last twenty-four hours. The regions most affected are those of the western Ukraine, near the border with Poland, where thermometers showed this morning minimum of 29 degrees below zero.
The Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov said that the severe frosts have forced the country to increase their consumption of natural gas and electricity. The energy needs are soaring across the continent and in several central European countries have been problems of Russian gas supplies as a result of soaring demand.
"There is a reduced supply," he told Efe the Austrian gas company OMV, which set this fall about 30% due to increased consumption has not been matched by a parallel increase in shipments from Russia. Russia recorded 26 degrees below zero today, the lowest daytime temperature of a winter so far has been unusually mild.
The authorities in that country have not provided data on fatalities from the storm that began a week ago, but the Russian Deputy Minister of Health, Maxim Topilin said that throughout the month of January at least 64 people died of cold. Poland remains, after Ukraine, the country where low temperatures have caused more havoc, with a total of 37 deaths in the course of a week, eight of them only during the last night.
Again most of the victims were homeless, many with alcohol problems, said today the Ministry of Interior. Temperatures are expected to rise slightly from tomorrow in Poland, where this morning the mercury fell to 35 degrees below zero in the east and less than 24 degrees in Warsaw.In central Europe and the Balkans, the cold wave, with temperatures also have reached 30 degrees below zero, has killed until Friday over 60 people.
The storm keeps thousands of people are isolated and the problems in the rail and road traffic throughout the region. In Romania, where 24 people died, hundreds of homeless have been moved to community centers. In Serbia, has increased the number of municipalities in emergency situations and more than 11,000 people remain isolated in mountain villages inaccessible. Six people were killed in Bosnia, five in Sarajevo, the capital of the country, and the sixth in the city of Mostar.
According to the Bosnian health authorities, some of those killed died from physical exertion when they cleaned the snow off the streets in the capital. In southern Europe, the cold has caused temporary havoc on all road traffic and railway lines. In Italy, the Ministry of Interior has recommended not to travel unless absolutely necessary in the central and southern regions of the country, as it provides a new wave of cold and snow during the weekend.
The snow even went to Rome, where for two years since it was snowing, and now his presence is expected to continue over the next 48 hours. The city of Milan (northern Italy) said yesterday the cold death of a man about 50 years, while in Insernia (south) has found the body of a man inside a car that was covered with snow .
In France, the cold snap has put on alert to 39 departments, with temperatures up to 14 degrees below zero in winter, as in the rest of Western Europe so far had been particularly gracious. Siberian cold snap and snowfall have intensified also in Spain and, thus, in the Pyrenees of Lleida thermometers plunged to 20.7 degrees the negative. The weather forecasts indicate that the alert will remain cold in Spain until Sunday, with temperatures 5 degrees rise and fall to 13 below zero in high mountain areas.
The Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov said that the severe frosts have forced the country to increase their consumption of natural gas and electricity. The energy needs are soaring across the continent and in several central European countries have been problems of Russian gas supplies as a result of soaring demand.
"There is a reduced supply," he told Efe the Austrian gas company OMV, which set this fall about 30% due to increased consumption has not been matched by a parallel increase in shipments from Russia. Russia recorded 26 degrees below zero today, the lowest daytime temperature of a winter so far has been unusually mild.
The authorities in that country have not provided data on fatalities from the storm that began a week ago, but the Russian Deputy Minister of Health, Maxim Topilin said that throughout the month of January at least 64 people died of cold. Poland remains, after Ukraine, the country where low temperatures have caused more havoc, with a total of 37 deaths in the course of a week, eight of them only during the last night.
Again most of the victims were homeless, many with alcohol problems, said today the Ministry of Interior. Temperatures are expected to rise slightly from tomorrow in Poland, where this morning the mercury fell to 35 degrees below zero in the east and less than 24 degrees in Warsaw.In central Europe and the Balkans, the cold wave, with temperatures also have reached 30 degrees below zero, has killed until Friday over 60 people.
The storm keeps thousands of people are isolated and the problems in the rail and road traffic throughout the region. In Romania, where 24 people died, hundreds of homeless have been moved to community centers. In Serbia, has increased the number of municipalities in emergency situations and more than 11,000 people remain isolated in mountain villages inaccessible. Six people were killed in Bosnia, five in Sarajevo, the capital of the country, and the sixth in the city of Mostar.
According to the Bosnian health authorities, some of those killed died from physical exertion when they cleaned the snow off the streets in the capital. In southern Europe, the cold has caused temporary havoc on all road traffic and railway lines. In Italy, the Ministry of Interior has recommended not to travel unless absolutely necessary in the central and southern regions of the country, as it provides a new wave of cold and snow during the weekend.
The snow even went to Rome, where for two years since it was snowing, and now his presence is expected to continue over the next 48 hours. The city of Milan (northern Italy) said yesterday the cold death of a man about 50 years, while in Insernia (south) has found the body of a man inside a car that was covered with snow .
In France, the cold snap has put on alert to 39 departments, with temperatures up to 14 degrees below zero in winter, as in the rest of Western Europe so far had been particularly gracious. Siberian cold snap and snowfall have intensified also in Spain and, thus, in the Pyrenees of Lleida thermometers plunged to 20.7 degrees the negative. The weather forecasts indicate that the alert will remain cold in Spain until Sunday, with temperatures 5 degrees rise and fall to 13 below zero in high mountain areas.
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