The researchers believe that as the cold wave moves from the surface, the rock pore space is completely filled in.

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The cold wave has also affected people in the western state of Rajasthan as well as parts of central India.

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In neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, the authorities have closed all schools for a week after a cold wave claimed the lives of 104 people.

BBC: India cold snap kills hundreds

But power consumption was much greater than TEPCO expected Thursday, due to a wave of cold weather that spurred heating demand.

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Since this term is totally without meaning, she can then claim that the latest forest fire, the latest hurricane, the latest drought, flood, snow, cold snap, heat wave, or tornado were cause by man, and that scientist X said so.

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That's certainly one way to create a groove, and "Long Way to Go" recalls the wing of new wave that's less interested in synthesized smoothness (whether warm or cold) than in off-kilter shards of sound glued together to resemble pop music.

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We have always had huge day-to-day and year-to-year variations in our weather, and we always will do, and a couple of cold winters are no more evidence that climate change has stopped than a single summer heat-wave proves that global warming is happening.

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