CHICAGO - According to The Amalgamated Department of Data Gathering, which is based in Chicago, the name Nemo has just surpassed the names Liam, Noah and Mason as the most popular new male baby name in the United States.
Bagby B. Buckleybox, a rep...
NEW YORK CITY - The mayor of the Big Apple, Michael Bloomberg has just informed the news media that he has been in contact with several mayors of East Coast cities regarding the horrific blizzards.
He spoke with the mayors of Philadelphia, Baltimo...
It was perhaps one of the greatest voyages imaginable which remained as yet unconquered - travelling by dogsled from London to Dorking in the very brief British winter. It was a dream of many men and had claimed more lives than can be counted. But this week Britain's greatest living explorer Sir Ranulph Feinnes finally achieved it on his twenty-fifth attempt.
Upon realising that this weekend th...
Tyneside police have issued a warning to Newcastle residents to stay in doors with news that Snowmen have taken to the streets en masse and have been seen in the process of hurling sticks at one another.
"With the heavy snowfall in the area," said...
Due to a series of warm winters in which snowfall has been below average, rationing of snow and ice will be introduced throughout the south of England this month. Although some snow is expected to fall this week, it is not expected to be enough to re...
A sudden overnight attack by the "Big Freeze" has caused chaos all over Europe and the UK. Skidding vehicles, traffic jams, rail delays, snowmen and buckets and buckets of snow greeted Brits and Europeans attempting to get to work or bringing the kid...
For the first time in living memory, bookies in the south of England are preparing themselves to pay out for a White Easter.
"Who knew?" said Falstaff Bier, a bookmaker from Romford. "We've been accepting bets on White Easter's for decades, and ne...
For years people have been warned not to eat yellow snow, the reasons for this were unclear to scientists at Swansea University for the Criminally Insane.
In a blind taste test of plain, vanilla, white snow and yellow snow, the yellow snow was uni...
A man whose car became trapped underneath a little bit of snow was found disorientated and barely alive after a miraculous 2 HOURS.
The 44-year-old office worker from Shrewsbury had only managed to survive on a Waitrose Cheese and pickle sandwich...
French applelet designer, Le App, have released a new app specifically for snow lovers everywhere: iGloo.
"We don't get much snow here in California," said Mac Buck, editor of App World!. "So I've not been able to try this app out in the wild, so...
After the weekend's heavy snowfalls claimed the lives of five elderly residents in the UK, councils are urging their elderly relatives to pay for snow clearing rather than attempt it themselves.
"Snow is quite heavy," said councillor, Rob Roberts...
The Met office today reversed their earlier statement regarding the massive amounts of snow forecast for the UK stating today. "Its just a light dusting" The statement angered thousands of pensioners across the UK who were preparing to freeze to deat...
A local man is threatening to sue the Meteorological Office and the BBC over the accuracy of their weather forecasts.
His action follows the heavy snowfalls that hit much of the country this weekend.
Mr Benjamin Disraeli, 48, of Alamein Terrace...
Problems caused by the severe weather in Nottingham.
* People having difficulties accessing the shops in the City Centre:
This is having a serious effect on the economy for retailers and Big Issue sellers in Nottingham's City Centre.
"Luckily 25% of them are already closed down and abandoned anyway!"
* Police Stations getting snowed in:
Making the enforcement of the law and protection of...
Spoof's weather expert, Just Winter, has shocked the world with a weather forecast which has got the Meteorological Office into a flat spin.
'There won't be much snow' said Winter 'it won't be much colder than it usually is at this time of year.'...
As the weather in Britain worsens and turns freezing, the gritters are out in force. In one borough of East Manchester the gritters have been asked not to take short cuts this year.
"We're not talking about only half filling the bucket, or failure...
Met office boffins today release an extreme weather warning as the nation readies its self for another battle with mother nature.
Top met office scientist Prof Andrew Swanker said today "we now have enough data to prove there is a correlation betw...
If there's one thing that would have me praying for a global rise in temperature, it is snow.
It's depressing. It's disruptive.
I cannot conceive of a single good thing about it.
Other people come out with lines like:
"It makes everything look pretty."
To which my answer is, why is a uniform colour pretty? I much prefer looking at a multifaceted multicolour landscape than WHITE! ev...