A frozen country - Different crisis but same lesson

IF YOU were in Chicago yesterday you would have been faced with snow and temperatures of -12°C. If you were lucky enough to be in Oslo you would have been a tad cooler, temperatures around -15ºC were recorded in the Norwegian capital.

Moscow was not so bad at -10ºC. New York had it easy at a moderate -1°C, while Paris was marginally colder at -2ºC.

With a world-record low of -71.2 °C, Oymyakon in the Sakha Republic, in Siberia, has the distinction of being the coldest town on Earth. Yesterday the hardy locals had to endure nothing worse than -51ºC. A comparative if bracing romp in the park we must assume.