alright. Thanks for the info! Is 1.2 degrees average in January as bad as it sounds?
"1.2 degrees Farenheit". The US is the only major country to use the Farenheit scale. It depends on what you call "bad". A fellow student of mine is from Azerbaijan, which is a sunny and warm country, and so, for him the Siberian winters are very cold. For my mother, born in Siberia, winters are cold, while for me it can be cold sometimes but is not a hindering. Any winter can be weathered given proper clothing and shoes. That being said, it's pretty common here to have the roads iced, which causes quite a few road accidents. I don't understand it in any reliable manner, but my guess is that when temperatures shift suddenly from, say, -20°C to 0°C (like they did just yesterday), the snow on the roads melts and then, when the shift is towards the lower minuses, it freezes up again. This can be bad.
You did? I just checked both Kemerovo's and Tomsk's climate tables from the English Wikipedia pages I've linked to, and you don't come close to either of those cities' average January temperature, which is what threw me off: at no point January is as warm. The closest you come to, Celsius-wise, is average year temperature in Kemerovo, and even then, you're a .1 off, or January's average Farenheit temperature, with .2 off. Were you checking something else, by any chance?