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Even the eyelashes freeze: Russia sees minus 88.6 degrees F
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | January 16, 2018

Posted on 01/16/2018 12:26:03 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

MOSCOW - Even thermometers can't keep up with the plunging temperatures in Russia's remote Yakutia region, which hit minus 67 degrees Celsius (minus 88.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas Tuesday.

In Yakutia - a region of 1 million people about 3,300 miles (5,300 kilometers) east of Moscow - students routinely go to school even in minus 40 degrees. But school was canceled Tuesday throughout the region and police ordered parents to keep their children inside.

Over the weekend, two men froze to death when they tried to walk to a nearby farm after their car broke down. Three other men with them survived because they were wearing warmer clothes, investigators reported.

But the press office for Yakutia's governor said Tuesday that all households and businesses in the region have working central heating and access to backup power generators.

Residents of Yakutia are no strangers to cold weather and this week's cold spell was not even dominating local news headlines Tuesday.

But some media outlets published cold-weather selfies and stories about stunts in the extreme cold. Women posted pictures of their frozen eyelashes, while YakutiaMedia published a picture of Chinese students who got undressed to take a plunge in a thermal spring.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalcooling; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax
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1 posted on 01/16/2018 12:26:03 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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students routinely go to school even in minus 40 degrees. ...

Nice temp! (Don't have to do much to covert F->C or C->F)

2 posted on 01/16/2018 12:27:40 PM PST by C210N (It is easier to fool the people than convince them that they have been fooled)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yes, northeastern Siberia can get very cold.


3 posted on 01/16/2018 12:28:58 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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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


4 posted on 01/16/2018 12:29:26 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Remember: All Cultures Are Equal!)
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12F degree's here today............

NE OK....

5 posted on 01/16/2018 12:29:53 PM PST by Osage Orange (Watch your six.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

-86 degrees?

A veritable tropical paradise!

We start picking the oranges at -86 degrees.


6 posted on 01/16/2018 12:31:02 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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88 below. Think of it as a toasty 206. Kelvin.


7 posted on 01/16/2018 12:32:15 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

GLOBAL WARMING!!!!

Just kidding. :) :)


8 posted on 01/16/2018 12:33:19 PM PST by ZULU (DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LFtYUUXJlE


9 posted on 01/16/2018 12:35:13 PM PST by Red Badger (Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No snowflakes in that country. They probably put Vodka in their kiddies lunch pails to keep em warm.


10 posted on 01/16/2018 12:35:33 PM PST by Cats Pajamas
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11 posted on 01/16/2018 12:36:03 PM PST by DoughtyOne (A/O 01/12/18 DJIA business close 25,803.19, a 44.25% increase over the morning of 11/07/16.)
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12 posted on 01/16/2018 12:36:56 PM PST by DoughtyOne (A/O 01/12/18 DJIA business close 25,803.19, a 44.25% increase over the morning of 11/07/16.)
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To: Osage Orange

74 in Phoenix right now but the morning was chilly.


13 posted on 01/16/2018 12:36:59 PM PST by libh8er
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To: Cats Pajamas

At -88 even the vodka freezes.


14 posted on 01/16/2018 12:37:39 PM PST by henkster
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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.


15 posted on 01/16/2018 12:40:22 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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LINK
16 posted on 01/16/2018 12:40:32 PM PST by DoughtyOne (A/O 01/12/18 DJIA business close 25,803.19, a 44.25% increase over the morning of 11/07/16.)
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To: henkster

Good to know.


17 posted on 01/16/2018 12:40:33 PM PST by Cats Pajamas
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To: Gay State Conservative

Dorval?


18 posted on 01/16/2018 12:41:07 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’ve been to minus 65 in the climate hanger at Eglin AFB. That’s cold enough.


19 posted on 01/16/2018 12:42:28 PM PST by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Oops - misspelled Val-d’Or.


20 posted on 01/16/2018 12:45:18 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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