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.

A new blast of Arctic air sweeping from north to south will bring bone-chilling temperatures to millions of Americans this weekend and next week.

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 ...

Temperatures dipped to 5 degrees in Evansville early Monday morning, and the wind chill reached minus-6 degrees.

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

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