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How Arctic Soldiers Train for What They Fear Most: Warm Weather The Wall Street Journal (Gift Link) Weeks after summer sun melted ice here near the Arctic circle, the air is a balmy 50 degrees. It is the worst time to fight a war in the high north. The Arctic is feared for its bone-chilling winters, when dangers include frostbite and snow blindness. Even worse, say soldiers who operate in these latitudes, is the warmer season, when mosquitoes and midges infest marshes that flood overnight, hampering troop movements and threatening to swallow up vehicles.