Ice needles and frosty fog
At Christmas, very frosty weather was established in many parts of Russia. Somewhere the temperature dropped to -20, somewhere 0 even to -50!
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At Christmas, very frosty weather was established in many parts of Russia. Somewhere the temperature dropped to -20, somewhere 0 even to -50!
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