Yep! That's Cold!

[Hervé]

Yakutia - the coldest inhabited place on Earth makes headlines

Fort Russ
Vesti (https://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2977092&cid=520)- translated by Inessa Sinchougova (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeix8jbmQnS6FprsJIsjVyQ/about)
January 17, 2018


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"Just walking to work in -47C" - writes a social media user from Yakutia, Russia.


Recently, Russian and foreign media outlets circulated pictures of people in the Yakut village Oymyakon. This was due to the fact that the temperature in the village dropped to -62 ° C. Residents of Oymyakon, however, say that such cold for them is common.


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The pictures made it to the British edition of the Independent and The Telegraph, the American newspaper Washington Post, and many online and social media pages.

"It's strange that journalists call and ask how we live here - I reply, you come and see for yourself that we live an ordinary life," said Vinokurov, who published a popular video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=yL3-v79Bris), in which a nine-year-old boy calmly cleans snow off a horse in -60 ° C.

Oymyakon is considered the coldest inhabited place on earth and is home to 500 residents. The rest of Yakutia has a population of almost one million people, made up of ethnic Yakuts and Russians.


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Oymyakon, Siberia: Thermometer breaks in world's coldest village as temperatures plunge to -62 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/16/thermometer-worlds-coldest-village-breaks-temperatures-plunge/)°C (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/16/thermometer-worlds-coldest-village-breaks-temperatures-plunge/)

Mike Wright The Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/16/thermometer-worlds-coldest-village-breaks-temperatures-plunge/)
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 14:35 UTC



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The thermometer in Oymyakon stopped working shortly after temperatures reached -62°C © INSTAGRAM/@SIVTSEVA9452

[Cardillac]

my Russian co-worker, Juliana (she's just as beautiful as her name) comes from Khazakstan in central Asia (used to be part of Russia); she's stated (in the rare times when she's back home): -50/-30 degrees (centigrade) temperatures are common there in the winter; when it's -30C degrees when she's rarely back there she states "it's a bit warmer now"-

can any of us even begin to identify with this?-

except for some Canadians on this forum :-)

Larry

[Ewan]

I've been in -20 c during a winter in the highlands of Scotland, walked a mile to work through waist high drifts in places - mostly just knee height. Only 6 people of around 20 made it into work and we'd all walked it, at least a mile.

My mother tells me of the time she had icicles forming on her eyelashes though I doubt it was ever as bad as the girls in the photograph above. I've certainly had ice forming on my moustache.

An 8 gallon polythene water drum with tap was frozen solid inside the house, had to break through over 7 or 8" of ice in the rainwater butts to get water wash with. That was bracing but back then nothing was too much of a challenge for me. It was the winter of 78/79, a particularly cold one - couldn't do it now I'm sure.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Aye, I remember '79 (pic'd below), that was immense, and was all across the UK. The snow was measured in metres that year not inches. Those were the days that schools shut for a good reason. (Mine was shut for many days I happily recall).

https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/images/readers/1_s.jpg

I like a bit of cold, in fact much prefer winter to summer. But boy, -62, that's a bit chilly even for me.

[O Donna]

I notice the guys exposed face and wondered how long, at that temperature, it would take for irreversible tissue damage to occur.

[Navigator]

my Russian co-worker, Juliana (she's just as beautiful as her name) comes from Khazakstan in central Asia (used to be part of Russia); she's stated (in the rare times when she's back home): -50/-30 degrees (centigrade) temperatures are common there in the winter; when it's -30C degrees when she's rarely back there she states "it's a bit warmer now"-

can any of us even begin to identify with this?-

except for some Canadians on this forum :-)

Larry

Ya we just had some -30C with -40C+ windchills last week, and the Christmas holidays where about the same in western Canada. Many places in Canada, even some of the most southern parts can count on at least a few days of that every winter, with the northern parts it being fairly regular and even colder (almost no one lives up there though, lol). Every once in a while you get it for several weeks straight - life gets tough at those temps (life literally slows down - you get a flat tire and you have a potentially major issue). It's no wonder Russia has thwarted two invasion attempts (probably more) just mostly due to their winter taking hold on unwary invaders.

[Daozen]

I notice the guys exposed face and wondered how long, at that temperature, it would take for irreversible tissue damage to occur.

That's what I was thinking. It's dangerous to expose your face at those temperatures. Were they doing that just for a photo?

I heard in Russia if you spit it'll turn to ice before it hits the ground. Also, men have to be careful in bathrooms, as their organs can get stuck to the ice. Ouch.

[Bill Ryan]

I notice the guys exposed face and wondered how long, at that temperature, it would take for irreversible tissue damage to occur.

Well, you can get frostbite. That usually happens to extremities (fingers, toes), but also the nose and ears.

The skin goes waxy white first.... you need a buddy system (don't walk to work on your own!! :) ) so that you can each keep an eye out on the other for initial signs of damage.

[Fellow Aspirant]

We're having a very cold winter this year. For two to three weeks, the thermometer just outside my kitchen window was flirting (at night) with -30C, once making it down to -32C. Daytime "highs" were -20C. So far, we've had three such sessions.

Today, I'm in a deep freeze in Atlanta (windchill of -18C). The good news is that tomorrow we fly to St. Croix, USVI. I have a dinner planned with Target.

Bring on the palm trees!

Brian

[Hervé]

I notice the guys exposed face and wondered how long, at that temperature, it would take for irreversible tissue damage to occur.
Here is how they do it:

How to Survive at Minus 60 Celsius: Manual From Russia's Coldest Region (PHOTOS) (https://sputniknews.com/russia/201801181060861699-yakutia-severe-frost-life/)

[Spiral]

It's freezing here in blighty too, as you can see it's "big coat" weather !

One of my nieghbours works in Kazakhstan coincidently, he says it feels colder here even though its -40°c out there, much drier apparently.

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[Hervé]

Mean while, not far away, the actual Game of Thrones' Wall of Ice:

'Game of Thrones' Wall Discovered in Siberia Amid Biting Frost (VIDEO, PHOTO) (https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/201801201060918827-game-of-thrones-wall-siberia/)

Sputnik Videoclub (https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/)

16:53 20.01.2018
(updated 16:54 20.01.2018)


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© AP Photo/ Courtesy of HBO


The TV show's fans were more than a little excited to share the pictures of the impressive rock formation online.

A 300m-tall wall resembling the fortification from the "Game of Thrones" TV show (GoT) was found in Yakutia, Russia's Far East region.

The natural rock formation stretching for many miles along the Lena River is located in the nature park "Lena Pillars."

The pictures of the wall have been taken by the TV show's fans in Russia and published on their Instagram accounts.


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The Wall is real!


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208.5k likes
(https://www.instagram.com/p/BdzrQBkH7Rz/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_legacy) 4,253 comments (https://www.instagram.com/p/BdzrQBkH7Rz/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_legacy)Local authorities have reportedly offered HBO to shoot the final season of the TV show in Yakutia.

According to the GoTlegend, the Wall is a huge fortification which stretches for 300 miles along the northern border of the Seven Kingdoms, defending them from the dangerous creatures living beyond it. The Wall is about 700 feet tall and is made of solid ice.

Meanwhile, in Yakutia the emergency services remain on stand-by (http://sputniknews.com/russia/20180116/1060797157.html), where temperatures have dropped below —65°C (-85°F) — the threshold prompting local authorities to close secondary schools.

Secondary schools were earlier closed due to the record chill, with kids banned from being transported by road from their places of residence.

[petra]

Holy cow!! That wall... whoa
I can barely look at the girl!
I'm dealing with ice where I live... but really it's only a minor annoyance compared to what those people have to deal with
So far in the past few days we've had cable & phone service knocked out due to ice, a brake line in my car broke which may or may not have been a coincidence after I drove over a small ice boulder, and I almost slipped and fell on a patch of black ice in a parking lot