Weather watch: New Zealand

Winter started so quickly this year and June was unbelievably cold... a very sunny, frosty, cold, month.
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My black taro, completely wiped out by the frosts, was starting to make a comeback but yesterday's icy start has seen an end to that. I also had two small puka trees that I'd planted...both are dead at the top - because of the frosts.

[But if he invaded a warmer place, wouldn't his army have been decimated by kidney stones?]: New book says wrong clothing, not winter led to Hitler's 1941 defeat in Russia

London, July 26 (ANI): British historian Andrew Roberts has claimed in a new book -- The Storm of War -- that wrong clothing and not ghastly wintry conditions led to Germany's defeat in Russia in 1941.

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West Virginia - Cap-and-trade ‘terrible,’ [Democrat] Green says

Cap-and-trade legislation aimed at imposing harsher restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions is a “terrible” idea that would shut down some West Virginia coal mines and jack utility rates up by as much as 125 percent, the chairman of a key state legislative panel warned Friday.

By a thin margin, the House of Representatives approved the President Obama-backed bill that seeks to address what some claim is a man-made warming of the planet, but the Senate has taken no action so far.

If state Sen. Mike Green, D-Raleigh, could work his will, the bill would die right where it now lies.