Your mental image of Siberia is probably a snowy, wind-whipped
expanse, perhaps with a cluster of buildings to house those banished
from Russian society. Not this week. This week, Norilsk, the
northernmost large city in the world, the second largest city north of
the Arctic Circle, and the site of one of those gulags, hit a balmy 32
degrees Celsius — about 90 Fahrenheit. It's normally in the mid-60s.
The online outlet The Siberian Times ("up-to-date information in
English from across Siberia's six time zones") featured a photo of
people sunbathing on the shores of Lake Baikal in its report on what may be a new record high.
For the rest of the story: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/07/its-90-degrees-siberia-and-people-are-sunbathing/67663/
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