The province of Neuquén’s legislative unanimously approved the Emergency law, applying it to economic, social factors and the environmental state of the Los Lagos area, declared a disaster zone after being badly affected by the Puyehue volcano eruption.
After going through a terrible ordeal in the last couple of weeks due to the Puyehue volcanic eruption, residents in the tourist town of Bariloche, in Patagonia, remained cautiously optimistic as they welcomed the first snow of the season this morning.
More than 3 million households in the US Northeast lacked power as a rare October snowstorm bedeviled transportation and killed at least eight people.
Europe saw little respite from the Arctic conditions that closed airports and disrupted travel over the weekend before Christmas, traditionally one of the busiest times of the year.
A thick blanket of snow covered US Northeast, as the fifth major storm of the winter set snowfall records, delayed the opening of financial markets and clogged Washington highways with abandoned cars.
Heavy snow fell in central Rome today, giving tourists a rare sight of whitened landmarks such as Saint Peter's Square and the Trevi Fountain, while the Colosseum and the Roman Forum were closed due to the icy conditions.
Bitterly cold weather that has claimed hundreds of lives in eastern Europe swept westwards over the continent on Saturday, blanketing Rome's Colosseum with snow for the first time in three decades and disrupting air and rail traffic.
The deadly cold snap that has gripped Europe for more than a week wrought more havoc across the continent, straining emergency services, grounding flights and pushing the death toll past 300.
London's Heathrow airport cancelled 10 percent of flights today, a day after it cut its capacity by a fifth, and said services could face further delays with more snowfall expected.
Several people were injured by falling ice at Cowboys Stadium, the venue for this year's Super Bowl, and all entrances to the venue have been closed except for one, the NFL said.
A rare snow storm deep in the heart of Texas has added another unusual twist to Sunday's Super Bowl between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers.
Parma's Serie A match at home to leaders Juventus was postponed less than an hour before kickoff today because of heavy snow in northern Italy.