Orthodox believers plunge into the icy waters of the Kara-Balta river during the celebration of the Epiphany holiday near the village of Sosnovka, some 90 kms from Bishkek, on January 19, 2024. Among Orthodox Christians, the feast of Epiphany celebrates the day the spirit of God descended upon believers in the shape of a dove during Jesus Christ's baptism in the river Jordan. (Photo by Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP Photo)





A man skates on frozen flooded meadows in the Ryptsjerksterpolder, the Netherlands, 09 January 2024. Due to the cold, with temperatures around freezing during the day and light to moderate frost at night, skating is possible in various places in the country. (Photo by Jilmer Postma/EPA/EFE)





Women sit on a bench surrounded by flood water of the River Danube in Budapest on December 28, 2023, as the lower quays of the riverbank are underwater due to flooding. Due to unusually wet and warm weather in recent days, the River Danube burst its banks in Budapest on December 28. (Photo by Ferenc Isza/AFP Photo)





A person walks down a path lined with snow-covered trees in Jiuquan, in China's northwestern Gansu province on February 4, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A person walks along the banks of the Weser estuary during a storm surge and waves in Bremerhaven, Germany, Friday December 22, 2023. Pre-Christmas rail travelers in parts of Germany faced widespread disruption on Friday as a storm swept across northern Europe, bringing down trees and prompting warnings of flooding on the North Sea coast. (Photo by Sina Schuldt/dpa via AP Photo)





Tourists from Kenya sit by a bonfire outside a cottage in Drang village, northwest of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, December 21, 2023. This is the time of “Chillai Kalan”, also called “The Great Winter”, a Kashmiri phrase which defines the harshest 40 days of cold in disputed Kashmir that commence in late December and extend into January and early February. Renowned for its breathtaking landscapes, Kashmir in winter transforms into a wonderland. Tourists fill its hotels to ski, sledge and trek the Himalayan landscape. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





People take photos of the smoke over Bogota seen from El Paraiso neighborhood on January 26, 2024 in Bogota, Colombia. Over thirty forest fires were registered in Bogota and several regions of Colombia amid high temperature records due to the El Niño phenomenon. As the city faces a high level of air pollution, Colombia's President Petro has convened his ministers to create a unified command post and will ask for help from the United Nations to combat the fire hotspots. (Photo by Diego Cuevas/Getty Images)





Holloways Beach resident Lisa Methven watches the storm across the Coral Sea as Cyclone Jasper approaches landfall in Cairns in far north Queensland on December 13, 2023. A tropical cyclone was building strength as it rolled towards northeastern Australia on December 13, with authorities warning “life-threatening” floods could swamp coastal regions for days. (Photo by Brian Cassey/AFP Photo)





A swimmer bathes in the surf, a practice known as pilcharding, on the city’s beach in Brighton, England in the second decade of January 2024. (Photo by Simon Dack News/Alamy Live News)





People look at the Gljufrabui waterfall in southern Iceland on Sunday, December 10, 2023. (Photo by Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images)





Shoreline ice pileup also known as ice tsunami is seen on the coast of the Baltic Sea at the Hel Peninsula on January 23, 2024 in northern Poland. Sudden surge of temperatures after days of cold and strong winds caused massive ice pilings which serve as a winter tourist attraction. (Photo by Barbara Ostrowska/East News/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





People walk through the still present Lake Manly at Badwater Basin in Death Valley, California, USA, 26 January 2024. Lake Manly was an ancient lake that was once filled with water up to 700 feet deep during the Ice Ages, but had since dried up. Months after an inundation of rain the lake recently reformed. The lake is located in Death Valley, which is considered the driest place in North America. (Photo by Allison Dinner/EPA/EFE)





A person stays by a gazebo on Khortytsia Island against the skyline of the city in winter, Zaporizhzhia, southeastern Ukraine on February 14, 2024. (Photo by Ukrinform/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





General view of a bike competitor in action during stage 1 of the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia on January 6, 2023. (Photo by Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters)





A woman walks her dog next to Mow Cop Castle, Mow Cop, Staffordshire, Britain on January 16, 2024. (Photo by Carl Recine/Reuters)