“Part of the deal was we couldn’t disturb the penguins.” From Metallica playing in the Antarctic to Van Halen performing in a blizzard —here are the wild stories behind three of rock’s coldest concerts

Winter Warnings

Lessons in avoiding the “ice follies.”

Vanilla Ice’s Concert at Freedom 250 Cancelled Due to Weather

Vanilla Ice’s performance at the ill-fated Freedom 250 concert was cancelled Friday due to “inclement weather” in the Washington, D.C. area

What a cold world.

Public drinking banned at France’s Fête de la Musique due to extreme weather

Authorities restricted drinking at the annual country-wide street celebrations over the weekend as temperatures hit 40 degrees Continue read

Inside the United States’ Billion-Dollar Blind Spot: Hail

Scientists have never quite understood how hail works. Meet the storm chasers trying to change that.

Antarctic winter temperature record shattered at 15.4°C, alarming climate scientists

Temperatures above 15C ‘very strange’ say scientists, as snow melts and rain falls on glaciers in usually frozen region