This December turned out to be very strange in Russia’s West, South and Primorye. Sudden frost replaced unseasonal warmth.
The current month began in Moscow without usual snow. On December 3, Russia’s capital experienced 8.2 degrees Celsius. Bears at the zoo were unable to begin hibernating, and mushrooms started growing in nearby forests. On Tuesday everything was changed.
Lincoln Tice rides his bike on a snowy street doing errends in Madison, Wisconsin, December 9. Heavy snow blanketed much of the central United States Thursday after a massive winter storm left residents battling frigid temperatures and icy roads. (AFP/Getty Images/File/Andy Manis)
Some parts of Michigan and Ohio were expected to get as much as several more feet (up to a meter) of snow as the system which has battered the country since Sunday made its way northwards up into Canada.
“This one came roaring through, it came in off the west coast, started really getting put together in Utah and then just blasted across the plains,” said Pat Slattery, a spokesman for the National Weather Service.
“As the system moves through, back behind it all this Arctic air came pouring south out of Canada and sweeping across the plains.”
High winds were creating blizzard-like conditions even in areas where the snow had stopped falling by pulling snow drifts up off the ground, Slattery told AFP.
Those winds were also adding a bitter bite to the already freezing winter air, complicating efforts to dig out from under the heavy snow.
Wind chills were forecast to range from -15 to -30 Fahrenheit (-26 to -34 Celsius) from Wyoming to Wisconsin and even Iowa and Missouri for the next few days. (more…)
That’s what I see on my way home in the evening. In the last Friday evening, Dec. 4, 2009, we had -41ºC and fog and no winds. So the frost was almost dry and burning, and my quickly frozen camera was slow to take pictures. Many unfocused shots were just deleted. See the left pics.
That’s a X-mas tree on the Ordzhanikidze Sq. No garlands and decorations yet. We are promised to see its finished beauty on Dec. 9, 2009. Hope it will be so. (more…)
Resource: The Weather Network
Hehe. These tips are good, but in conditions of our cold we need to put more clothes, I think. However, I saw local marathoneers running in -50C and they didn’t have much layers, almost the same. However, they preferred to wear hat as well 
If I would have a chance, I’ll try to take pictures of those runners.
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