#cold-wave

#cold-wave

An 81-year-old man was found dead on a Brooklyn apartment building rooftop, police said Sunday. The victim's body was discovered on top of the six-story apartment building on Avenue H near New York Ave. in Flatbush about 9:55 a.m. Saturday, cops said. His name was not immediately released. Police could not say Sunday whether his death is believed to be cold related or what he was doing on the roof.

A bomb cyclone produced freezing temperatures across a large portion of the US from the Gulf coast to New England, bringing heavy snow to North Carolina where two were killed in storm-related conditions, and setting records in Florida, where officials warned of ice and falling iguanas. About 150 million people were under cold weather advisories and extreme cold warnings in the eastern portion of the US,

It has been a cold start to the year across much of Europe, particularly in central regions, where temperatures dropped to double-digit negatives. Heavy snowfall hit parts of eastern and central Europe on New Year's Eve, notably in Poland and Ukraine, with similar conditions across the Alps on the first few days of the year. The cold is likely to continue this week as an Arctic air mass sinks south across Europe, pulling temperatures well below the seasonal average outside south-east Europe.