Finger-Numbing, Toe-Tingling, Nose-Running: Welcome to Limoges, the Coldest Spot in France

I had a realization tonight watching Le Grand Journal. As the lovely meteo lady recited the weather forecast, I noticed-- with horror-- the quickly-falling temperatures across the hexagon of the great French state. But then I realized something even more horrific. Limoges was actually depicted on the map-- a small point with the temperature in centigrade plotted on the green-- as the single, coldest place in the entire country. There it was. And numbers don't lie. In the dead center of France (slightly SW), the miserably low (hovering near the single digits) temperature was the lowest of the low, a cocooned valley of arctic froid surrounded by warmer, sunnier climes.