It's cold...this is news?

In the Independent this morning, there's an article essentially telling us it's cold in the UK. I'm a bit baffled by the notion that this is news. But near the end of the article, I found this gem:

At Banham Zoo in Norfolk, keepers were trying to encourage a pair of Siberian tiger cubs to leave their covered pen. The animals can survive in temperatures as low as -40C but the 11-week-old cubs have baulked at -4C.

Doesn't that just make ya go "Aw, so cute!"???