Photographer: Peter Dejong
Year: January-February 2012
Location: Continental Europe
Casualties: 650
Europe said a brisk hello to 2012 with an extreme cold wave that reached almost every part of the continent. Amsterdam's canals and lakes froze solid, turning the city into a (free!) city-wide skate rink. Rare and record conditions even hit the the deep Mediterranean and North Africa, which received some very-rare snowfall.
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