Heh, you've got me thinking maybe the -40 was the wind chill. If so, damned if i know how it got to the -40 -70, or if i should adjust that story. Anyway .. how about THIS
New Hampshire's Mount Washington, which boasts of having the "world's worst weather", is expecting wind chill to feel like -90F (-67C) on Friday night. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42576978
forming the kernel of a cool London story. Sorry to read the toll is up to 19.
Thanks for the reminder. Reading good little stories was too long time ago stuff.