Khartman,
Thanks for the welcome! K. is a large country next to Russia that used to be a satellite of the Soviet Union. Both Russian and Kazakh are the official languages spoken. I've tried to learn Russian but the brain cells are not what they used to be---it's a VERY difficult language. Anyway, you asked about the weather--I hope that you are sitting down---it gets down to the minus 40's in winter--Astana, the capital where we are posted , I believe is the 2nd coldest in the world!! My husband is there now (I'm in Texas for the summer---uggh) and said that the temps are in the 70-80's during the day but in the 40's in the evenings. It was warmer last summer when I was there. Astana is on the steppes so it gets a lot of wind and is dry a good deal of the time. We had snow the beginning of November and it wasn't gone until end of March.
Hope that you guys along the east get some relief-----Houston wouldn't exist without a/c--hang in there. Thanks again for the welcome.
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