With temperatures reaching a comfortable 19°C and skies often clear and blue, it's become a hotspot for winter sun seekers.

The polar vortex’s icy grip on much of America has Arctic Greenland seeming like a toasty vacation spot by comparison.

Cold extremes are indeed waning over most of the midlatitude Northern Hemisphere, but a decade-plus debate on the Arctic’s role continues.

"Which coat should I wear next week? All of them", a paraphrase of an Időkép joke could go if we consider the chilling winter ...