On Sunday, 21 December 2014 09:57:38 UTC, wrote:
Wunderground is showing + 6 widely in Moscow. My World Weather Guide gives the record Dec max as +5 so today may well be record breaking. Temperatures even above freezing well to the NE of Moscow. Napoleon clearly picked the wrong winter.


As an antidote to that digraceful mildness you could try this:

http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/UEEE.html

These conditions have been essentially unchanged for about 8 days. The fog is largely the creation of the city itself. Dec-Feb there is no other weather there.
The METAR for Moscow Sheremet'ye shows a temp of -1° currently with snow showers, but still several degrees above normal.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.