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Sometimes it sounds like the newspapers send their journalists on Christmas vacation early and just recycle the headlines from the previous year: there are always a bunch of strikes and even more reliably terrible weather that makes traveling over the Christmas week a bit of a nightmare.

This time round we’ve already experienced snow and fog problems in the eastern coast of the United States. The wintry weather, combined with strong winds, led to some delayed and canceled flights and a whole lot of frustrated travelers over the weekend. Add to that the storms across the upper midwest, including parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, and there were more than a few people who didn’t get to their Christmas destination as early as planned.

And this kind of Christmas chaos is definitely not exclusive to the US. Severe fog in Britain caused troubles for flights coming in and out of London’s two largest airports, Heathrow and Gatwick, with at least a hundred flights grounded. The fog also caused accidents and slowed traffic to a crawl on a lot of major motorways around Britain.

Is there somewhere in the world where travelers don’t suffer so badly during the holiday season? Well, the entire summer hemisphere manages to experience a summer Christmas, so the problems of fog and snow aren’t present there … but some cities in Australia are expecting maximum temperatures over 100 degrees F for Christmas Day, which brings its own set of problems.