Kitchens run by the NCP provided food and drink to fortify waverers in temperatures reaching 40 degrees centigrade.

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However overnight temperatures dropped to minus nine centigrade and with a further deterioration forecast on Saturday, the game was called off.

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Temperatures hover around 10 degrees centigrade during winter days, although if you are lucky, experiencing the Coliseum with a dusting of snow is magical.

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Wine is a more complex substance than one might think, and, above two thousand metres, and at close to zero degrees centigrade, it displays interesting behavioral anomalies.

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In summer, when the temperature soars to 45 degrees centigrade, soaking lengths of cotton fabric in a boiling vat of dye calls for a special kind of endurance.

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But the report warned that just a one-degree centigrade rise in average temperature would reduce this to 500 viable slopes, and that this was likely to happen between 2020-2025.

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The heat from decay is lessening day by day, and the latest thermal imaging reports indicate temperatures of less than 100 degrees centigrade in reactor units 1, 2 and 3.

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Officially, the calls were made at 29, 035 feet (about 8, 848 meters) in temperatures of -22 degress fahrenheit (-30 degrees centigrade) -- so cold that Rob had to tape the batteries to his body just to keep them active.

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Meanwhile, participants for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change prepared for meetings in Bonn, grappling with a convergence of new data from the International Energy Agency suggesting that humanity will be unable to prevent temperatures from exceeding the catastrophic threshold of a 2 degree Centigrade increase across the planet.

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