Winter storms and freezing temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere have left behind landscapes covered in snow and ice. Gathered below are recent images of some of those landscapes, and the people and animals both coping with the weather and playing in it.
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A worker pauses while removing snow from Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York, on January 14, 2024. A snowstorm that brought about two feet of snow to the Buffalo region on Saturday led the NFL to postpone the Bills wild-card playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers until Monday. #
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Workers remove snow from Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, New York, on January 14, 2024. #
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Icicles hang from a mermaid sculpture as temperatures across the country continue to drop, on January 17, 2024, in London. #
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A child sleds down a slope in front of the Lincoln Memorial after a snowfall in Washington, D.C., on January 16, 2024. #
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Ice-encrusted plants, photographed in Lake Oswego, Oregon, on January 17, 2024. An ice storm threatened to topple trees onto power lines and made mountain highways treacherous in parts of the Pacific Northwest. #
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The Wee Hoose, also known as Broons Hoose, is seen in the snow on Loch Shin in Lairg, Scotland, on January 18, 2024. The Met Office issued a rare amber snow warning for northwest Scotland as the United Kingdom experienced near-record low temperatures on Tuesday night. #
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A Bolivian squirrel monkey is seen in a tree covered by snow at Pairi Daiza zoo in Brugelette, Belgium, on January 18, 2024. #
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A coyote stands in a snow-covered parking lot in South Lake Tahoe, California, on January 14, 2024. #
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Members of Turkey's Gendarmerie force ride along a trail on Mount Uludağ in Bursa province, Turkey, on January 11, 2024. #
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Snow blows across I-25 during blizzard conditions in Crescent, Iowa, on January 13, 2024. #
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An aerial view of people trying to find their way out of an enormous snow maze in Zakopane, Poland, on January 15, 2024. #
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Icelandic horses play in the snow at a stud farm in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, on January 15, 2024. #
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A steam train travels through a snow-covered landscape in the Harz mountains near Schierke, Germany, on January 17, 2024. #
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A boat lists in a harbor after more than two feet of snow fell over the weekend in Juneau, Alaska, seen on January 15, 2024. Six boats sank in the harbor, but three were saved before they went totally underwater. #
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A view of trees covered with rime ice in Tunceli, Turkey, on January 15, 2024 #
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A northern cardinal perches in staghorn sumac at Colonel Samuel Smith Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 16, 2024. #
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Figure skaters perform on a frozen Lake Çıldır in Kars, Turkey, on January 17, 2024. #
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The sun sets over a snow-covered field on January 13, 2024, in Treynor, Iowa. #
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A woman takes video of sculptures by Yue Minjun in Morton Park during a snow storm in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on January 17, 2024. #
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People watch the sunrise from the deck of a ship on the Bothnian Sea in Swedish Lapland on December 30, 2023. #
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Dogs play in Central Park during the first snowfall in more than 700 days in Manhattan, New York City, on January 16, 2024. #
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