Nice temp! (Don't have to do much to covert F->C or C->F)
Yes, northeastern Siberia can get very cold.
I’ve experienced -35F twice...in a small town about 200 miles north of Montreal.I guarantee that that is *damn* cold.I simply can’t imagine -88F
-86 degrees?
A veritable tropical paradise!
We start picking the oranges at -86 degrees.
88 below. Think of it as a toasty 206. Kelvin.
GLOBAL WARMING!!!!
Just kidding. :) :)
No snowflakes in that country. They probably put Vodka in their kiddies lunch pails to keep em warm.
Residents of Yakutia are no strangers to cold weather...
Their ancestors were routinely dumped from trains
into the snow and forced to build their own camps.
Of course, most of them didn’t make it.
I’ve been to minus 65 in the climate hanger at Eglin AFB. That’s cold enough.
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Is Algore visiting Russia ????
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Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
First, nobody in my sophisticated society reports experiencing such temperatures. You only get such stories from rural places where the peasants are gullible.
Second, such a temperature would be very remarkable and make a very interesting story. But we know that such stories are fun to tell, because they are so fantastic and unusual. Thus the people telling them, being that they are not men of sophisticated society and thus excitable and not careful or observant, undoubtedly report such things to impress people.
Third, experiencing things so fantastic is by definition rarer than things which are more ordinary. Thus every given report of such things needs to be weighed in evidence with the ratio of their innate probability in mind. This allows us to discount the fantastic reports, and thus we are able to know they never are true, because discounting them moves their probability to zero, and thus they become not just very unlikely, but actually impossible.
--from Hume's lost essay on why things can't get that cold.
Anybody else reminded of a margarita?
In the Age of Sail warships with cannons kept the iron cannonballs stacked near each cannon for reloading.
To prevent the round cannonballs from rolling all around the pitching deck they were kept in a brass tray alongside each cannon.
The brass tray called a "monkey" was sized to be a close fit to hold the cannonballs firmly in place.
In extremely cold weather the thin metal of the monkey would contract faster than the dense iron of the cannonballs.
If the monkey became too small it could no longer hold the cannonballs properly and they would come loose.
In other words, it could become cold enough to freeze the cannonballs off the brass monkey.
Didn’t anyone warn them not to let Al Gore talk about global warming there?
In Russia, the ice melts you.
Not sure why this is that big a deal. In January 2009 it was -80°F in Tok, AK, and -62 in Fairbanks.
My wife who was an AF brat in both Anchorage and Fairbanks in the early 60’s. said they played outside at school until it got below -20. And they weren’t allowed to wear slacks to school until it went below -10.
