Soccer Football - Championship - Norwich City v Preston North End - Carrow Road, Norwich, Britain - September 19, 2020 Norwich City fans have their temprature checked as they enter before the match as a limited number of fans are allowed to attend Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs EDITORIAL USE ONLY. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or "live" services. Online in-match use limited to 75 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. Please contact your account representative for further details. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Soccer Football - Championship - Norwich City v Preston North End - Carrow Road, Norwich, Britain - September 19, 2020 Norwich City fans have their temprature checked as they enter before the match as a limited number of fans are allowed to attend Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs EDITORIAL USE ONLY. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or "live" services. Online in-match use limited to 75 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. Please contact your account representative for further details. 

Soccer Football - Championship - Norwich City v Preston North End - Carrow Road, Norwich, Britain - September 19, 2020 Norwich City fans have their temprature checked as they enter before the match as a limited number of fans are allowed to attend Action Images via Reuters/Paul Childs EDITORIAL USE ONLY. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or "live" services. Online in-match use limited to 75 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. Please contact your account representative for further details. 

An Indian soldier gets his temprature checked after disembarking from a military transport plane at a forward airbase in Leh, in the Ladakh region, September 15, 2020. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui 

Soccer Football - Women's Champions League Quarter Final - Arsenal v Paris St Germain - Reale Arena, San Sebastian, Spain - August 22, 2020 People have their temprature checked as they enter the stadium, as play resumes behind closed doors following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Clive Brunskill/Pool via REUTERS 

Soccer Football - Carioca Championship - Botafogo v Cabofriense - Nilton Santos Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - June 28, 2020 Cabofriense players are temprature checked as they arrive before the match, following the resumption of play behind closed doors after the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes 

Soccer Football - Premier League - Chelsea v Manchester City - Stamford Bridge, London, Britain - June 25, 2020 A person has their temprature taken as they enter the stadium before the match, as play resumes behind closed doors following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Action Images via Reuters/Matthew Childs EDITORIAL USE ONLY. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or "live" services. Online in-match use limited to 75 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. Please contact your account representative for further details. 

Soccer Football - Premier League - Chelsea v Manchester City - Stamford Bridge, London, Britain - June 25, 2020 A photographer enters through a temprature checking station before the match, as play resumes behind closed doors following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Action Images via Reuters/Matthew Childs EDITORIAL USE ONLY. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or "live" services. Online in-match use limited to 75 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. Please contact your account representative for further details. 

A manager wearing protective gloves checks the temprature of a worker following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) upon his arrival to the restaurant, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 26, 2020. Picture taken April 26, 2020. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri 

A shopper wears a face mask as he gets his body temprature checked at the entrance to Jerusalem's main market, after the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown eased around the country April 26, 2020. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun 

Wood-cased pencils are pictured in the drying oven during pencils production at Faber-Castell manufacturer in Stein near Nuremberg, Germany January 16, 2018. Picture taken January 16, 2018. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle 

A couple relax on the green in front of the Reichstag's building, the seat of the German lower house of parliament during a sunny day in Berlin May 21, 2007. The temprature in German capital on Monday reached a peak of 31 degrees Celsius (87 degrees Fahrenheit). REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY) 

Iced branches are seen in a snow covered valley near the southern German town of Koenigssee January 12, 2006. Weather forecast predicts tempratures until a peak of minus 15 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit) in southern Germany. 

Iced branches are seen in a snow covered valley near the southern German town of Koenigssee January 12, 2006. Weather forecast predicts tempratures until a peak of minus 15 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit) in southern Germany. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch 

A four-year-old female tiger called Glezla yawns in the Sofia city zoo, January 8, 2004. Glezla is one of the few animals in the zoo to leave its shelter amid sub-zero tempratures that have hit the Balkan country. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov SN/ 

Ukrainian woman clears snow after the snowfall in the central Kiev,
January 9, 2003. Ukraine suffers from heavy snowfalls and freezing
tempratures in the first weeks of January. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

AS 

A man splashes at a giant swimming pool at a Tokyo amusement park to
escape from the current heatwave July 20, 2002. The highest temprature
in the Japanese capital rose to 34.6 degrees centigrade after Japan's
Meteorological Agency announced the rainy season had ended in parts of
Japan's islands of Honshu and Shikoku, including Tokyo area. More than
20,000 people visited the swimming pool on Saturday. REUTERS/Kimimasa
Mayama

KM/CP 

A couple react to hitting the water as they ride a water slide on a
tube at a giant swimming pool at a Tokyo amusement park to ease
heatwave July 20, 2002. The highest temprature in the Japanese capital
rose to 34.6 degrees centigrade after Japan's Meteorological Agency
announced the rainy season had ended in parts of Japan's islands of
Honshu and Shikoku, including Tokyo area. More than 20,000 people
visited the swimming pool on Saturday. REUTERS/Kimimasa Mayama

KM/CP 

A boy plays soccer with his friends at a Tokyo park March 30, 2002. The
temprature in the Japanese capital rose to 22.3 degrees C (72 F) on
Saturday while poeple enjoy their weekend time. REUTERS/Kimimasa
Mayama

KM/RCS 

An American black bear of the barbital family sits in a tree in the zoo
in Bulgaria's capital Sofia March 26, 2002. The zoo's few visitors who
dared to leave their homes braved freezing tempratures and snowfalls,
unusual for late March. REUTERS/Dimitar Dilkoff

DD/ 

Palestinian youths smoke waterpipes as they try to escape the heat of a hot summer day on Gaza beach as tempratures reached 33C in the Gaza Strip June 26, 2001. The Palestinians urged on Tuesday the United States put pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to move immediately towards a renewal of peace talks or face the collapse of an already weakened Middle East ceasefire.

AJ/JDP 

Palestinian youths smoke waterpipes as they try to escape the heat of a hot summer day on Gaza beach as tempratures reached 33C in the Gaza Strip June 26, 2001. [The Palestinians urged on Tuesday the United States put pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to move immediately towards a renewal of peace talks or face the collapse of an already weakened Middle East ceasefire.] 

Visitors to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo carry their umbrellas during an unseasonable snowfall as they view cherry blossoms, the symbol of spring season in Japan March 31, 2001. The temprature in Tokyo dropped to 4 degrees centigrade on Saturday. It was the first time in 23 years that it snowed after the full blossom of cherry trees.

KM/DL 

A speedskater casts a shadow over the track in the morning light during the World Speedskating Championships in Budapest February 11, 2001. The Championships have been overshadowed by high tempratures and bad ice conditions. The last two races, the women's 5000 metres and men's 10,000 metres, have been postponed to the end of the afternoon in the hope the ice will be harden. 

A speedskater casts a shadow over the track in the morning light during the World Speedskating Championships in Budapest February 11, 2001. The Championships have been overshadowed by high tempratures and bad ice conditions. The last two races, the women's 5000 metres and men's 10,000 metres, have been postponed to the end of the afternoon in the hope the ice will be harden.

JFL 

DUTCH SPEEDSKATING STAR IDS POSTMA CHECKS THE QUALITY OF ICE ATTHE CITY PARC ARTIFICIAL ICE RINK WITH THE 100 YEAR-OLD VAJDAHULYAD CASTLE AS BACKDROP IN CENTRAL BUDAPEST.


Hungarian Karoly Balu checks the temprature of the ice with a thermometer at the City Parc artificial ice rink with the 100 year-old Vajdahulyad castle in the background in central Budapest February 9, 2001. This weekend Budapest will host the World Speedskating Championships all round starting February 10. It's not sure the Championships will start in time due to high tempratures and the bad ice conditions. The organisation might pospone the start of the competition until the end of the afternoon instead of noon. The organisation asked German ice master Ernst Eidloth of the German Ludwig Schwabl ice stadium in Inzel for assistance to improve the ice condition. 

A curler throws his stone at the Moy Hall outdoor curling event at Granton On Spey January 18, 2001. Tempratures in the area have dropped as low as minus 16 celsius in the past week.

DCS/CLH/ 

Street children bathe in water gushing out of a burst drinking water pipe in the eastern Indian city Calcutta May 17. Tempratures have remained above normal in several parts of India, causing water scarcity in many areas. Calcutta does not have a water shortage althought high humidity has made the summer uncomfortable.

JS/tan 

A dog shakes off water after a swim as its owner (R) walks along the shore eating a shaved ice on a Tokyo beach August 8. Tempratures rose to around 33.4 degrees centigrade in the Japanese capital.
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A dog shakes off water after a swim as its owner (R) walks along the shore
eating a shaved ice on a Tokyo beach August 8. Tempratures rose to around
33.4 degrees centigrade in the Japanese capital.
REUTERS/KIMIMASA MAYAMA KM/PB/WS

JAPAN 

Rajah, at 19 years the oldest Siberian Tiger in Asia, enjoys a cool breeze from a fan as temprature hits 42 degrees centigrade in the desert emirate June 1. Rajah was born on March 31, 1980, in Leipzig zoo.

AM/CLH/
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As New Delhi swelters in searing heat, with tempratures rising to 42 degrees Celsius (107.6 degree F), these rickshaw pullers rest under the shade of a tree on June 17. The temperature in the Indian capital can shoot up to 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) in the summer.

INDIA 

A homeless mother and her children huddle together to confront bitter cold January 18 on the pavement in Bangladesh's northern Bogra district, where temparatrures dropped to six degrees Celsiu. The average winter tempratures are in the 15 to 18 degree range.

BANGLADESH 

A hicker looks at an ice covered but still running waterfall at an area called " End of the World" near Engelberg in Central Switzerland, December 29. An unusual cold spell has kept hold of Switzerland with tempratures dropping below zero.

COLD SPELL 

A woman enjoys the early morning sun while reading a book in two chairs along the Dutch coastline in Noordwijk April 22. Tempratures rose up to 25 degrees celsius in the Netherlands and drew many people to coastal beaches 

Dutch couples perform a traditional ice dance in national costumes from different parts of the Netherlands in the northern Friesian village of Lemmer January 6. With tempratures still below zero The netherlands is holding it's breath if this year will bring another "Elfstedentocht" (eleven villages tour) a skating tour over 200 kilometres over natural ice. The last one was held in 1986 

Dutch couples perform a traditional ice dance in national costumes from different parts of the Netherlands in the northern Friesian village of Lemmer January 6. With tempratures still below zero The netherlands is holding it's breath if this year will bring another "Elfstedentocht" (eleven villages tour) a skating tour over 200 kilometres over natural ice. The last one was held in 1986 

Dutch couples perform a traditional ice dance in national costumes from different parts of the Netherlands in the northern Friesian village of Lemmer January 6. With tempratures still below zero The netherlands is holding it's breath if this year will bring another "Elfstedentocht" ( eleven villages tour ) a skating tour over 200 kilometres over natural ice. The last one was held in 1986 

Skaters participating in the Oldamb Skating Tour over 100 kilometres on nature ice seen from above before they pass under a bridge in between the Dutch villages of Nieuw Wolda and Termunterzeil in Northern Province of Groningen January 5. The race was won by Ruud Borst before Henk Angenent who finished second and Henk van Benthem third. With tempratures still below zero The netherlands is holding it's breath if this year will bring another "Elfstedentocht" (eleven villages tour) a skating tour over 200 kilometres over nature ice. The last one was held in 1996. Experts say that it needs at least another five days of tempratures of 5 below zero 

An ice surfer braves the cold as he sails with a customized surfboard on the frozen river "The Rottemeren" out side of Rotterdam December 29. As tempratures, in the the Netherlands and North ern Europe, still stay well below zero, the Dutch pick up their traditional way of spending their spare time in the cold winters with skating on the frozen lakes and canals