As we await Hurricane Cyril over the weekend I thought that it would be instructive to post this comparative temperature map from The Oil Drum.
December 2006 was 8 degrees warmer than December 2005, and I have no recollection of December 2005 being particularly cold - that came mid-January.
What is worse, as we await a new moon, it is dark, dark, dark in Moscow, without the usual covering of snow which helps to lift the gloom.
As this unseasonal weather repeats itself all over western Europe it will be intresting to see what Gazprom's year-on-year sales to western Europe will be both during the winter when it is not cold and then during the summer when it very definitely will be air-conditioning warm again.
The comparative weather picture came from The Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
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