Temperatures hover around 10 degrees centigrade during winter days, although if you are lucky, experiencing the Coliseum with a dusting of snow is magical.

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Wine is a more complex substance than one might think, and, above two thousand metres, and at close to zero degrees centigrade, it displays interesting behavioral anomalies.

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In summer, when the temperature soars to 45 degrees centigrade, soaking lengths of cotton fabric in a boiling vat of dye calls for a special kind of endurance.

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The heat from decay is lessening day by day, and the latest thermal imaging reports indicate temperatures of less than 100 degrees centigrade in reactor units 1, 2 and 3.

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Officially, the calls were made at 29, 035 feet (about 8, 848 meters) in temperatures of -22 degress fahrenheit (-30 degrees centigrade) -- so cold that Rob had to tape the batteries to his body just to keep them active.

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