Dec 18, 2012

Winter scenes around the world that will make you go Brrr!

Stokely Baksh 0 Comment Nation, World Animals, Austria, England, Germany, India, Japan, Minneapolis, Russia, skiing, snow, Sweden, Switzerland, winter

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This week, forecasters reported that the chances of a White Christmas were still relatively slim for Baltimore. Not to say, the rest of Maryland will be snow-free. Western Maryland is under a winter storm watch, looking at possibly more than 6 inches of snow.

Love or hate the snow, here’s a look at wintery wonderlands and snowy nightmares in other parts of the world.

: A woman walk her dog on a snow covered street in central Stockholm November 29, 2012. (Jessica Gow/Reuters)

: A bench is covered by snow in Oberfrauendorf, eastern Germany on November 29, 2012. (Arno Burgi/AFP/Getty Images)

: A man uses a snow blower to clear a small road leading to his farm in Saleby, outside Skara in southwestern Sweden on December 1, 2012. (Bjorn Larsson Rosvall/AFP/Getty Images)

: Photo taken on December 7, 2012 shows snow-covered trees in Reims, northeastern France after an overnight fall. (Francois Nascimbeni/AFP/Getty Images)

: Students make lines on a bus terminal covered by snow to wait for transportation in Nagano City in the morning on December 10, 2012. Heavy snow hit wide areas of Japan on December 10 due to cold air that brought a winter pressure system. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)

: Choristers from Winchester Cathedral don ice-skates to enjoy the artificial rink set up beside the cathedral on December 11, 2012 in Winchester, England. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

: A parked car seen covered with snow during a blizzard in Stockholm, Sweden on December 5, 2012. (Jonathan Nakstrand/AFP/Getty Images)

: A boat passes in front of snow-covered mountains on Dal Lake in Srinagar on November 29, 2012. The 434-km Srinagar-Leh National highway was closed for traffic as high altitude areas of Kashmir Valley, including the famous ski resort of Gulmarg, experienced the first heavy snowfall of the season, officials said. (Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images)

: A man feeds birds as snow falls on the borders of Lake Zurich in Zurich December 2, 2012. (Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)

: A dog, covered with frost and snow, looks on during a snowfall outside Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk December 4, 2012. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

: A pedestrian walks past a monument covered with snow in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok December 4, 2012. (Yuri Maltsev/Reuters)

: A man rides a horse-drawn cart during heavy snow fall near the village of Petravinka, some 25 miles east of Minsk, December 5, 2012. (Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)

: A snowboarder makes a turn on a sunny winter day in the western Austrian ski resort of Sonnenkopf mountain in Langen am Arlberg December 12, 2012. (Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters)

: In Minneapolis on the Stone Arch Bridge, Adam Womersley and his English Springer Spaniel, Stella, took to the snow with relish, Sunday, December 9, 2012. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minneapolis Star Tribune)

: People play with snow in Burgos, northern Spain, during the first snowfall of the season on November 28, 2012. (Cesar Manso/AFP/Getty Images)

: Frost covers the face of a person in a sculpture by artists Erin Pollock and Steph Kese in Anchorage, Alaska on December 8, 2012. (Bob Hallinen/Anchorage Daily News/MCT)

: A general view of snow covered fields and villages in the Bhaderwah Valley, some 200 kms east of Jammu on December 16, 2012. According to reports from The Press Trust of India (PTI) residents of Himalayan states are experiencing the first snowfall of the winter season. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

: A duck has its beak covered in snow on December 13, 2012 at the border of the river Ilmenau in a park in Bad Bevensen, central Germany. (Philipp Schulze/AFP/Getty Images)

: A young elephant plays in the snow on December 13, 2012 at the zoo in Berlin. (Tim Brakemeier/AFP/Getty Images)

: Two skiers use a lift to mount the slope near Buchenberg-Eschach, southern Germany, on December 1, 2012. Winter sports season was opened in some resorts of the southern Allgaeu region. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/AFP/Getty Images)

: An avalanche dog frees a person buried in the snow, on December 11, 2012, during an avalanche dogs training session near Les Deux Alpes ski resort in the French Alps. (Jean-Pierre Clatot/AFP/Getty Images)

: Lenin’s statue is covered with snow during heavy snowfall over Kiev, on December 11, 2012. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images)

: Japanese macaque, commonly referred to as “snow monkeys,” sit next to an open-air hot spring bath at the Jigokudani Monkey Park in the town of Yamanouchi, Nagano prefecture on December 10, 2012. Some 160 of the monkeys inhabit the area and are a popular tourist draw. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)

: A poses by a snow man with a banner reading “a photo -1 euro” on Decemebr 9, 2012 in Hannover, eastern Germany. (Emily Wabitsch/AFP/Getty Images)

: A train of the Brocken Railway steams through the winter landscape with snow covered pine trees on Brocken Mountain in Harz, eastern Germany, on December 8, 2012. (Stefan Rampfel/AFP/Getty Images)

: A young polar bear wallows in snow at the public zoo in the Russia’s second city of Saint-Petersburg, on December 7, 2012. (Olga Maltseva/AFP/Getty Images)

: Tables and chairs are covered in snow outside a restaurant at the Rhine Promenade in Duesseldorf, western Germany, on December 7, 2012. (Horst Ossinger/AFP/Getty Images)

: A Boeing 737-600 from Scandinavian Airlines, SAS, is parked at terminal 5 at Arland airport outside Stockholm, on December 5, 2012. Only one track is open due to a heavy snow fall and many flights have ben cancelled. (Johan Nilsson/AFP/Getty Images)

: Camels are seen on a snow covered pasture in Berkenthin, northern Germany, on December 6, 2012. The owner, a veterinary and farmer, trains the animals for movie productions. (Markus Scholz/AFP/Getty Images)