It’s still officially autumn, and we’ve already had an early and cold winter in N America. But things seem to be heating up back in the USSR.

I wonder if this will affect the Winter Olympics.

“Russia had its warmest November since national records began in 1891. Some areas of the Urals, Siberia, south of the Far East region, and on the Arctic islands in the Kara Sea, had temperatures that were more than 14 degrees F higher than the monthly average.
NASA, which also tracks global temperatures, also reported that November was the warmest November ever recorded.
November marked the 345th consecutive month with a global temperature above the 20th-century average.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/12/17/warm-november-global-climate-report/4052839/