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Moscow isn’t the only European city experiencing an unseasonably warm winter, but it may be the city where such a warm streak is most surprising and disrupting. It’s being reported that this is the warmest winter in 130 years. Interestingly enough, it was exactly a year ago today that I posted a screencapture of Rambler Weather displaying a frigid -31 forecast, which was at that time a 50-year record-setting low.

How’s that for a contrast?

The warm weather has been throwing Muscovites for a loop. Many are having trouble getting out of bed in the mornings with the constant grey weather. The snow tire industry in Moscow has seriously deflated (ouch), reporting business down by 20-30%. Even the bears at the zoo are stumbling out of hibernation several weeks early due to the confusingly warm weather. Even the Russian Orthodox Church is taking up the issue by considering special services of prayer and supplication for snow.

Thanks are due to Russian Kafe for the news links.