Because the communal heating in the apartment block has been turned off. Somewhere on some heating engineers balcony the bud of a daffodil bulb must have broken through the frost on the plant pot …thus signalling the big switch-off.
Another indication is that the women who are “recycling” the rubbish bins have stripped off one of their layers of coats and taken to swapping their fur mittens for fingerless gloves. Still no sun though.
