The local papers seem to have been remarkably restrained about the latest round of cold weather. While a good blizzard will see words like Snowpocalypse and Snowmageddon dragged out with monotonous predictability, all I see today in the New York Times for the extreme cold is U.S. Frigid, and that's only in contrast to the Arctic.
In Australia, by contrast, the papers can't get enough of a good heat wave when it happens. Every year, after the first day to top 40 celsius, the Herald-Sun will feature WHAT A SCORCHER on its front page, along with a picture of some overly well fed gentlemen on St. Kilda Beach wearing Speedos they should have dispensed with decades earlier, and a time chart of the temperature under the heading How We Sweltered. Now that's weather reporting.
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