The region of XinJiang in China has recorded the lowest temperature in history at -52.3 Centigrade (although the video below is saying the coldest for 60 years - whatever, it's bloody cold!).

Just take a look at the videos - I found it a very haunting experience. My sense is that it's happening because the Sun is moving into a Grand Solar Minimum - not to be confused with the Sunspot cycle which is moving to a peal.

The Grand Solar Minimum is where the Sun's magnetic sheild lowers before flip flopping - similar to the Earth's Pole Shift. It's a 400-year cycle that causes the Sun to go into a partial hibernation in terms of its irradiance.

So much for global warming!...