Winter, what winter?
While the eastern United States got pummeled by snow and rain deluged an already flooded Britain, the sun shone bright in the Russian resort town of Sochi.
Cameramen went shirtless, while tourists sunbathed and took dips in the ocean at the suddenly not-so-Winter Olympics this week.
Temperatures rose to just under 60 degrees on Wednesday.
That was warmer than Los Angeles, Sydney and many other Olympic host cities, prompting some to start calling Sochi the "Warmer Olympics."
Sochi has about 25 million cubic feet of snow stored away for the games, but Dmitry Chernyshenko, head of the local organizing committee, said there was no need for it yet.
On the warmer weather, he said, "It's not a big surprise for us. We're a subtropical city."
This is how "cold" it's been in Sochi this week:
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