Moscow Got 6 Minutes of Sunlight in December<br />“When they hear about this, many people say, ‘It’s clear now why I was depressed,’ ” said Roman<br />Vilfand, the director of Russia’s Weather Service, according to the news agency Tass.<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 />Mr. Vilfand attributed the gloom to warm Atlantic air masses<br />that continually swept over the region with strong, damp winds that thickened the cloud cover.<br />“And this at a time when the country is rising from its knees<br />and has won the war in Syria...” an anonymous commenter wrote in response to the Moskovsky Komsomolets article.
