You know, where the average low temperature in January is minus 10 degrees.

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People are fleeing the cold: there is a strong correlation between the average temperature in January and population growth, notes Edward Glaeser, a professor of economics at Harvard University.

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In January, the temperature in Altnaharra, near Lairg in Sutherland, dropped to -22.3C, making it the coldest place in Britain this winter.

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The fact that Romania has an average January temperature in the mid-20s, the lowest per capita income in the European Union and is the home to both Dracula and Copsa Mica, one of the most polluted cities in the world, never entered into my thinking.

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The temperature really drops on you up there in January or February.

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In January this year he acknowledged that the temperature rises predicted by global warming were at a standstill.

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The coldest temperature was -13C (8.6F) at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands on 8 January, while the strongest gust of wind was 165mph (265.5kph), recorded at the highest point of the Cairngorms mountain range on 8 December.

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