Birds perch on a branch during a spring snowstorm in Pembroke, N.Y. on April 23.

A dog walks after a sudden snowfall in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 4, 2012.

Nina Padmanabhan and Murray Waugh shelter from the cold in a red telephone box following a sledging trip on April 3, in Braemar, Scotland. Snow has returned to parts of Scotland just a week after the country experienced record high temperatures for March.

Scottish deer forage for food on a hillside near the Spittal of Glenshee on April 3, in Glenshee, Scotland. Snow has returned to parts of Scotland just a week after the country experienced record high temperatures for March.

Skiers ride a lift over thinly-covered slopes at the Sugarbush Resort in Fayston, Vt. on Tuesday. Northern New England is experiencing some summerlike weather. Forecasters say the temperature should go past 70 degrees on Wednesday in Portland, Maine, smashing the old record by 10 degrees or more. And it'll be even warmer Thursday, moving toward the 80-degree mark.

Several inches of snow cover a parked vehicle in Flagstaff, Arizona on March 18, 2012.

A snow-covered farm house, on March 5, 2012 in Armentieres, northern France, after heavy snow-falls which disturbed the traffic around Lille.

A Palestinian man and his son stand next to a snowman outside their house on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah as wintry weather swept through the region on March 2, 2012.

Israelis play in the snow in Jerusalem on March 2, 2012.

Palestinian youths play with snowballs in Jerusalem on March 2, 2012.

Two Haredi (Ultra Orthodox ) Jews make their way through a snowstorm in the Mea Shaarim neighborhood of Jerusalem on March 2, 2012.

Ultra-orthodox Jewish youths dress a snowman in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on March 2, 2012.

Snow falls on an olive tree in the West Bank city of Ramallah on March 2, 2012.

Melted ice trickles off the hat of a man as he visits the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City on March 2, 2012.

An aerial view shows rescuers searching for persons under an avalanche at Col de la Croix in the Skiing area The Diablerets, Switzerland, on Wednesday. It is assumed that two persons are buried under the snow.