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Old December 21st 14, 04:29 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Remarkable mildness in Western Russia
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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.

Certainly unusually mild, but can the record December max really be 5C?
I'm sure that I can remember seeing higher maxes in winter than that,
though obviously very rarely. Admittedly I can't be sure which winter
month they were in, but you'd expect January and February if anything to
be colder.
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