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