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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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalcooling; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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)
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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)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Yes, northeastern Siberia can get very cold.
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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)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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
To: C210N
12F degree's here today............
NE OK....
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posted on
01/16/2018 12:29:53 PM PST
by
Osage Orange
(Watch your six.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
-86 degrees?
A veritable tropical paradise!
We start picking the oranges at -86 degrees.
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posted on
01/16/2018 12:31:02 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
88 below. Think of it as a toasty 206. Kelvin.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
GLOBAL WARMING!!!!
Just kidding. :) :)
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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)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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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......)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
No snowflakes in that country. They probably put Vodka in their kiddies lunch pails to keep em warm.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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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.)
To: DoughtyOne
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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.)
To: Osage Orange
74 in Phoenix right now but the morning was chilly.
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posted on
01/16/2018 12:36:59 PM PST
by
libh8er
To: Cats Pajamas
At -88 even the vodka freezes.
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posted on
01/16/2018 12:37:39 PM PST
by
henkster
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.
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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.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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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.)
To: henkster
To: Gay State Conservative
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posted on
01/16/2018 12:41:07 PM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I’ve been to minus 65 in the climate hanger at Eglin AFB. That’s cold enough.
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posted on
01/16/2018 12:42:28 PM PST
by
Don Corleone
(.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
To: Gay State Conservative
Oops - misspelled Val-d’Or.
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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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