Down to -50C: Russians freeze to death as strongest-in-decades winter hits (PHOTOS)

RIA Novosti ^ | 19 December, 2012, | Yakov Andreev

[liberalh8ter]

Thanks for the laugh. It’s the best Gore graphic I’ve ever seen.

[Jack Hydrazine]

[Amberdawn]

I guess we’ll have to call off the invasion.

[null and void]

My outdoor thermometers don't go that low.

No doubt. The mercury freezes 20 degrees above that point (más o menos)...

[RevolutionaryTimes]

This is truly bitter news, I am honestly shivering at the thought of how terrible their lives have become.

[ziravan]

Central Texas, turned my AC on a bit ago because indoor temp with no sources of heat burning except lights, computer and TV was 82 deg...

I count only five Fall-like days so far this season.

[bgill]

Yeah, it’s 80 degrees right now. But I think Mother Nature is joking and we’ll be hit with some serious cold in Feb.

[Rebelbase]

“It’s -58 Fahrenheit if you’re used to using that scale. Yikes!”

Yes! My 1.8 x degrees C + 32 in my head formula works!

[TigersEye]

Oh, I can't do that. So I use this!

[American in Israel]

That is -58 Fahrenheit! My outdoor thermometers don't go that low. Wow.

Mine goes to -80, but then its an "Alaskan Special"

[Eye of Unk]

-27 at my house north of Wasilla. About a normal winter cold for us, last time I saw a really cold winter here I think it was 2004 when it was -47f which is about the same in centigrade.

[txhurl]

.I had the AC on last night

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And probably the heater on the night before... this dryness
is really wearing on me, Lake Travis here.

[CatherineofAragon]

Here in Virginia, it’s been in the 50s to around 60 all this fall....definitely warmer than normal, although it’s nice.

What’s bad is the dryness. We’ve had no real rain in months. It’s strange, because we always get good rainfall in the autumn.

[Romulus]

-50? That’s cold even by MN standards.

Bah. The temp is Moscow is 0F. This -50C stuff is one off the scale Siberian outpost. Which is more or less normal winter weather.

[justa-hairyape]

Sweden – December temps are down

63 inches of snow in 3 days Mt Baker – 4 to 5 more feet expected !!

India – Nearly 500 people stuck on Jammu-Srinagar highway due to snowfall

Heavy snowfall cuts power to hundreds of Ukraine villages

Fairbanks – Coldest back-to-back Novembers on record

Ninety-three village roads in Turkey closed due to heavy snowfall

Hudson Bay ice extent growing like crazy

Britain faces coldest winter in a century

[Harold Shea]

It was about that temp when the German Army froze

to death in view of Moscow.

Napolean had a bit of a problem with Russian weather too

Tough place to invade and live in too

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

But this cannot be! Both James Hansen at NASA GISS, and Michael “Zamboni” Mann at some scandal-ridden northeastern university *insist* that Russia is experiencing sweltering temperatures far higher than have ever been recorded.

[Lancey Howard]

(( global warming ping ))

[HangnJudge]

Slight Warming trend after 12/21 then much colder

[StormEye]

"A couple of years ago, I had one of these global warming enthusiasts explain to me that global warming can cause an ice age."

When I encounter idiots claiming that "global warming" can cause ultra cold winter weather or cause an ice age I ask them how warm must the Earth get before it freezes?