Siberian Moscow
Traffic police in Downtown Moscow
Friday was expected to bring slightly warmer temperatures -- but also a bone-chilling east wind -- and the mercury was expected to rise toward minus 20 C (minus 4 F) over the weekend in Moscow...Channel One television, however, warned that Moscow temperatures could drop to minus 42 C (minus 43 F), a low last recorded in 1940...
Electric power use reached a 15-year high of 146,000 megawatts earlier this week, the electricity monopoly RAO Unified Energy Systems said Wednesday. Russian ministries raised their estimate of the death toll across the frozen country to more than 30 people. Temperatures in Siberia stayed at minus 81 F.
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Oh Gosh! I am so sorry! With a strong wind blowing on top of frigid temperatures, the wind chill factor must be enormously negative. I like the zoo's answer; wine for the monkeys three times a day. I think I will try that.
There is no global warming in Moscow!!! No wonder Muscovites are so hardy. The artic temperatures make keeping warm an art.