Moscow Got 6 Minutes of Sunlight in December
In Norilsk, an industrial city in Russia’s Arctic region, the temperature plunged to minus 49 degrees Fahrenheit
(minus 45 degrees Celsius) on Wednesday, with warnings of a further drop to 67 degrees below zero on Thursday.
Roman Vilfand said that When they hear about this, many people say, ‘It’s clear now why I was depressed,’
But the dearth of sunlight undoubtedly has contributed to a surge in visits to psychiatrists in Moscow
even beyond the expected seasonal rise, the daily newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets reported.
Temperatures in some places have plummeted to minus 85 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 65
degrees Celsius), claiming at least two lives over the weekend, Interfax reported.
It was the darkest December in the capital since the city began recording the data, the
previous worst having come in 2000, when the sun checked in for a meager three hours.
Moskovsky Komsomolets wrote that And this at a time when the country is rising from its knees and has won the war in Syria...
