Frosty November will go down in history

  • 1998-12-03
  • Paul Beckman
VILNIUS - Some calendars don't start counting winter until mid-December, but Balts know better. In Lithuania, people begin grabbing for heavier coats and thick long johns at the start of November.But this November was something else altogether. Usually, it's a month that usually sees the average temperature bobbing somewhere around the freezing mark, but this year, the mercury often plunged below zero degrees Celsius into the negative double digits.Alva Nagalyte, a weather forecaster at the Lithuanian Meteorological Service, was reluctant to declare this year's November the coldest this cen...
 
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