December. 1938 – temperatures in the Arctic above freezing.
In England, March and December of last year were the warmest of the century during which records have been kept at Greenwich.
In December, Moscow was gripped in a protracted cold spell and temperatures fell at times to 50.8 degrees below zero Centigrade.
During the same month, Soviet scientists, wintering at the observatory on Rudolf Is- land, 560 miles from the North Pole, reported a temperature well above the freezing point.
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