Milan was colder than Moscow, and Madrid turned into a skating rink, with first-aid stations set up to treat all the broken bones. A village in France's Lozère region shivered in the coldest temperatures ever recorded in the country 29.2° below zero Fahrenheit. Holiday skiers in the Swiss Alps found little joy in temperatures that reached 13° F. In Venice's Piazza San Marco, where makeshift bridges were set up two weeks ago so that pedestrians could negotiate the tide-flooded square, children skied and tossed snowballs. While Scandinavia was unseasonably warm, a deep...
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