this has been dubbed as icemegeddon but we re talking about very high temperatures just try and square that circle if you can. yeah, so alaska s normally very cold. so for example, in fairbanks, they recorded their third wettest day on record, but it was all below freezing. so even though they were about 18 c above normal, it all still fell as frozen precipitation and that has created just tremendous hardship. power outages, roof collapses, record snow falls and snow depth, in some places it s really been, again, unprecedented. now, the pioneering photographer sabeen weiss, who was celebrated for her candid pictures of ordinary
people on the streets of paris, has died aged 97. weiss was born in geneva and moved to paris after the second world war. for decades she chronicled social change in the city becoming a key figure in the movement known as french humanism. her work has become a permanent feature of many modern art galleries around the globe. that s it for now. do stay with us on bbc news. hello again. temperatures reached the 16 degrees mark in both london and in exeter through wednesday. and we ve got more of the same to come for the next few days, really, as we keep these south westerly winds flowing across the country, bringing pulses of exceptionally mild air northwards. now, temperatures probably reaching 16, possibly 17 celsius, and in contrast, the temperatures that we d normally expect at this time of the year, around about 8 celsius. so it is pretty exceptional, not far away from the english temperature record, which is 17.7. as we head into thursday morning, we ll see outbreaks of rain turni