EXTREME Weather PHOTOS

A man is drenched by a large wave during high tide as he cycles past at a fishing harbour in Chennai, on December 28, 2011. The coastal districts in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry were ravaged by Cyclone Thane during the yearend

EXTREME Weather PHOTOS 1

A child is draped in a blanket on a cold morning at a roadside in Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi December 31, 2011

EXTREME Weather PHOTOS 2

A motorcycle rickshaw tows construction equipment in the fog in Lahore January 1, 2012

EXTREME Weather PHOTOS 3

The four rings of the logo of German car manufacturer Audi are seen at the radiator grill of a snow covered car after heavy snowfalls in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos December 31

EXTREME Weather PHOTOS 4

Water from a fountain is seen frozen around the branches of a tree at the Chunggaechun stream in Seoul.

EXTREME Weather PHOTOS 5

People relax in a public swimming pool during heavy snowfalls in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos

EXTREME Weather PHOTOS 6

A boy shovels mud as he cleans his house swamped with mud from flash floods in Iligan city, southern Philippines

EXTREME Weather PHOTOS 7

A resident cleans a television swept away by flash floods caused by Typhoon Washi in a subdivision in Iligan city, southern Philippines

EXTREME Weather PHOTOS 8

A member of a local winter swimming club takes a bathe in the Yenisei River, with the air temperature at about minus 20 degrees Celcius (minus four degrees Fahrenheit) in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk