The Black Sea waters around the Ukrainian port city of Odessa were completely frozen for the first time since 1977, and Ukrainian
ports will remain closed until at least Feb. 15. Russia's Novorossiysk port, usually
an ice-free port all year round, was closed for two days last week because of ice. In the Romanian
Black Sea port of Constanța, the waters were frozen for up to 400 meters from the harbor.
In Ukraine, the hardest-hit country where over a hundred have died in the past two weeks from the cold, Emergency Situations Minister Viktor Baloga said that nine out of ten of the deaths were alcohol-related, as homeless Ukrainians drank so much that they couldn't feel the cold and froze to death.
In the Netherlands, where conditions were not as dire, residents took the opportunity to ice skate (and even dine!) on the country's many frozen rivers and canals.
Meteorologists have warned that the cold weather blowing in from northern Russia may last throughout the month, with The Weather Channel's Leon Brown telling Reuters that "February will probably remain a cold month right to the end."
In Ukraine, the hardest-hit country where over a hundred have died in the past two weeks from the cold, Emergency Situations Minister Viktor Baloga said that nine out of ten of the deaths were alcohol-related, as homeless Ukrainians drank so much that they couldn't feel the cold and froze to death.
In the Netherlands, where conditions were not as dire, residents took the opportunity to ice skate (and even dine!) on the country's many frozen rivers and canals.
Meteorologists have warned that the cold weather blowing in from northern Russia may last throughout the month, with The Weather Channel's Leon Brown telling Reuters that "February will probably remain a cold month right to the end."
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