Siberia, with its long, brutal winters, has been a favorite spot for Russian leaders to send convicts for labor-camp sentences for the past four to five centuries. There are large expanses of wilderness in Siberia, and around Novosibirsk, where the locals point to a lack of mountains to keep Arctic winds at bay.

Memphis is set to get hit with a cold weather system early this week that could drop wind chills to as low as 5 degrees.

Forecast confidence ticked upward slightly on Friday afternoon about the chances for snow in Alabama next week. If Alabama were to get any snow it would most likely be in the Tuesday-Wednesday timeframe, according to the weather service. There are a lot more “ifs” that forecasters will have to sort out.

Temperatures dipped to 5 degrees in Howell early Monday, and the wind chill reached -9 degrees. It's colder than Siberia. Literally.

The forecast from the National Weather Service doesn't bring the area to ... almost 20 degrees warmer than in Holland. Siberia, with its long, brutal winters, has been a favorite spot for Russian ...

You would have woken up warmer Tuesday in these four arctic cities. But did South Bend beat even the South Pole?