Hottest year ever: Cold kills hundreds of thousands of lambs in New Zealand

NZ - Big hit to lamb production

The devastating cold weather that hit New Zealand (NZ) in the last few weeks killed newborn lambs in their hundreds of thousands. This is likely to have a significant effect on NZ lamb production going into 2011 and beyond

Weird weather stuns Free State: News24: South Africa

Bloemfontein – Residents of the Free State will be forgiven for being slightly confused about waking up at the weekend to winter temperatures and snow - in the middle of October.
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“I couldn’t believe it when I saw snow on the Maluti mountains.

“In the ten years that I have lived in Fouriesburg, it has not snowed in October,” says Pottie Potgieter. He does remember one instance, on December 7 1970, when it snowed in Ficksburg.