Posted on 02/02/2014 12:17:23 PM PST by chessplayer
If you thought it was cold where you are at the moment then a visit to the Russian village of Oymyakon might just change your mind.
With the average temperature for January standing at -50C, it is no wonder the village is the coldest permanently inhabited settlement in the world.
Known as the 'Pole of Cold', the coldest ever temperature recorded in Oymyakon was -71.2C.
Unsurprisingly, locals are hardened to the weather and unlike in other countries - where a flurry of snow brings things grinding to a halt, Oymyakon's solitary school only shuts if temperatures fall below -52C. (-61.6 F)
The frozen ground makes it difficult for working indoor plumbing, so most toilets are outhouses.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I’m from the Georgia-Florida border. My friend and I , a couple of retired bachelors , tried to drive to Deadhorse last year.
We got north of Coldfoot when it SNOWED in early August. We headed south !!!! Beautiful country and the finest people you could meet ...and in my opinion the most hale, hearty, capable, independent group I have ever seen.
You have my admiration and respect. I’m married now and she does not want to move to Alaska...(hehehe)
It is cold here today...only in the low 60’s.Going out to pick a lime for my gin and tonic while I watch the game..One of the benefits of living in the deep South ..
I hope everyone has a great day..
“Amos Chapple said that photographing the village was a nightmare - locals are so mindful of the cold that they are only outside as they race from doorway to doorway usually with their gloves clapped to their faces.”
Towards the beginning of the video in the referenced article, I noticed that the gentleman (male voices) holding the digital thermometer spins the probe in circles. Doesn’t spinning the probe possibly introduce false lower temperature readings as a result of artificial wind chill?
pronounced Oh-my-achin’ as in Oh my aching’ bones just thinking how cold it is there.
It possibly could, but you need moisture in the air to cause evaporative cooling, and at those temps, the air is pretty dry.
if they dont know about depends they prolly use something ummm similar and they are STUCK in their south 40s
Wind doesn’t affect thermometer readings. If it’s 5 degrees with a wind chill of -10, the thermometer will show 5 degrees.
Barrow, Alaska is a tropical resort compared to that place.
keeping the thermometer moving may dispel his body heat signature and give a more accurate reading
Evaporative cooling stops when the moisture freezes.
Wind chill refers not to the temperature reached, but rather to how rapidly heat is lost in getting to that temperature.
IOW, a person (or anything else above ambient temperature) outside at 0F and 10 mph wind (-16F windchill) would lose heat as fast as a person at a temperature of -16F and no wind. But once he reached 0F he wouldn’t cool below that temperature no matter how long outside.
Try Kamchatka.
“There isn’t a stop light on the road going south for
450 miles. I can only go north 70 miles until I
reach a stoplight. There are no roads going east or
west as that except for a few dirt roads is vast wilderness.”
That sounds like my old birthplace of Battleford Saskatchewan.
Spinning the probe gets it to the ambient temperature more quickly.
Without heat from fossil fuels they’d be out in the cold.
The people that grew up here such as my husband have
really extreme stories to tell. It makes for people that
are very self reliant.
How is your lovely Swedish
Average daily high in February (coldest month) in Barrow, AK is -8 and average nighttime low is -20. Barrow ain’t got nothing on Oymyakon.
Wife? Sorry
No.
Wind Chill does not lower temperature of an object below the ambient temperature.
Wind Chill is a measurement of how fast leaves a warmer object as compared to without wind. Things like living creatures, heated homes, etc are affected by wind chill as the heat needs to be replenished faster to maintain the same warmer temperature. Once an object is cooled to the ambient temperature, like a rock or a thermometer, has no effect.
Supplying a little extra wind by spinning it around, just gets the thermometer to the actual temperature faster (if you had kept the probe indoors, instead of leaving it outdoors).
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