Twentyone people are dead and 100 missing as a result of snowstorms in eastern Mongolia!

Mongolia: Snowstorms have killed at least 21 people and left 100 others missing.

The State Emergency Authority said today that heavy snow and strong winds have hit three provinces in eastern Mongolia.

It says most of the victims were herders who were frozen to death and that hundreds of livestock also died.

Afghanistan: Fourteen people were killed and 52 injured today when a packed truck plunged into a ravine in the north-eastern province of Badakhshan.

Winter storm

A winter storm is an event in which the dominant varieties of precipitation are forms that only occur at cold temperatures, such as snow or sleet, or a rainstorm where ground temperatures are cold enough to allow ice to form (i.e. freezing rain). In temperate continental climates, these storms are not necessarily restricted to the winter season, but may occur in the late autumn and early spring as well. Very rarely, they may form in summer, though it would have to be an abnormally cold summer, such as the summer of 1816 in the Northeast United States of America. In many locations in the Northern Hemisphere, the most powerful winter storms usually occur in March and, in regions where temperatures are cold enough, April.