In article ,
"Keith (Southend)" writes:
*Key cold indicators*

Max Temps 29th December 2008

-3.7°C Moscow
7.5°C Reykjavik
2.2°C Bergen
-6.5°C Oslo
-1.6°C Stockholm
0.9°C Helsinki
0.8°C Warsaw
-3.0°C Berlin
3.2°C Copenhagen
-0.8°C Brussels
2.2°C Paris
-0.8°C Amsterdam
-0.6°C Munich
-0.7°C Zurich
-3.0°C Vienna
10.2°C Madrid
-3.2°C Prague
-3.9°C Budapest
-5.1°C Belgrade
3.9°C Dublin

I assume that there must be a lot of cloud, coupled with not much snow
cover, over southern Scandinavia and Russia? Otherwise their reluctance
to cool down is hard to understand.
--
John Hall
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless
information."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)