Posted on 01/16/2018 7:41:20 AM PST by EdnaMode
This Siberian village's thermometer broke last night because of how cold it was.
Oymyakon, in the Siberian region of Yakutia, is the coldest inhabited village on Earth. Each winter, it records some of the world's lowest temperatures and the town seems frozen in time.
On 14 January, Oymyakon got so cold, its brand new thermometer broke after reaching a mind numbing -62C, reports the Siberian Times. In comparison, the only other places to get this cold or colder are unpopulated areas of Antarctica.
But locals have reported temperatures far colder than the official -62C on their properties, thanks to their own thermometers. For the town's 500 inhabitants, it's just business as usual. Oymyakon is the Pole of Cold, the point in the Northern Hemisphere where it gets the coldest. During the winter season, the temperature reaches an average of -45C. But life doesn't stop for a slight chill.
A group of Chinese tourists braved the freezing temperature and visited a spring over the weekend, where they were filmed dancing in their swimwear, earning the admiration of locals.
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I was just thinking, if I could be guaranteed there would be no liberals ever, I wouldn’t mind living there. I would rather live in a frozen wasteland with no liberals than a tropical paradise with them.
I did not like “To Build a Fire.” A really depressing story.
Maybe that's how the current residents got there.... fleeing the liberal wasteland of the Holocene or Neolithic era....
I didn’t like it either. Maybe that’s not the point. It left an impression.
Very few, uh, "people of color," and the drama that often comes with that.
global warming’s a bitch, ain’t it
P.K. Subban is great. I’d happily see him come back from Nashville. I like the drama he creates on the ice.
Makes your place seem semi-tropical.
Well of course you're aching, you're got frost bite big time.
You had a sunrise? You lucky dog!
I saw -60 in Alaska, but there was no sunrise. With the windchill it was -140. I remember the silence, punctuated by shattering cracks. Everything was brittle as glass. Even with all our arctic gear, we only went out for 15 minutes before everything froze solid. It was all we could do to just keep all the equipment running. The heaters kept our maintenance barns a comfortable 20 degrees. I can’t imagine doing that these days. My arthritis would leave me completely disabled.
Glad I live somewhere we consider 60 degrees cold. I’ll be happy if I never see snow again, though the harsh conditions did promote independence.
That it does. -19F is positively balmy by comparison.
I guess I don’t mind turning on the AC this weekend to get over the +86degF we had here in Rancho Mirage CA. We break out the parkas at +60F.
Siberia?
I wonder if that’s where that Russian girl that was going to come marry me went to work? She signed a contract with a travel agent. Had to have her parents borrow against their house and still needed more money.
I suggested a video call after which I’d hire a Russian lawyer of my choosing to be my agent and she could meet with him.
Rather than do that, she chose to go work in the “far north where they didn’t have internet for a year” in order to pay for her travel to me.
I’ve been googling to find info on the Polar cap ice. Surely, it must be expanding with all this cold weather.
I type in polar ice 2018 and get info mainly about it melting. Even though I type in January, 2018, I get propaganda about climate change and all the usual suspects dating back a few years. Anyone else having the same problem. Google is getting more and more like Orwellian Ingsoc, or Newspeak.
Can you get away from liberals by living in a place that cold?
That -19F was last year. This year, it only hit -11F. Had a few days of sub-zero, at least out at the ranchette. I think I’m in one of those microclimate cold sinks.
The evening lows during the battle of Stalingrad were around -40c.
Northern Europe and Asia is just COLD.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/sea-ice-page/
The sea ice is low, but think of it this way. All those dips of the jet stream bringing arctic air south are made up by sucking warm air from the south into the arctic. That heat pretty much get transfered directly to space. In addition ice is a pretty good insulator that prevents heat from the ocean (water has about 1000 times the heat capacity of air). With the ice gone, terra joules of energy can transfer directly from the ocean to space. When people understand that the amount of energy contained in the atmosphere is teeny tiny compared to the amount of energy in the ocean, and that 100% of the energy in the ocean comes directly from sunlight, and that while the ocean has an enormous effect upon the atmosphere, and is the driver of almost all weather, the reverse is not true...infrared radiation from the atmosphere does not penetrate the ocean surface and air does not transfer heat to the ocean. The only effect of warmer air on the ocean is that it may cause higher evaporation, combined with convection transports even more heat to the upper atmosphere then to space. All of this removes heat from the system and thus cools it.
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