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Minus-forty-degrees days in Yakutsk, Yakutia/Siberia
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by bolotbootur | December 11, 2009 at 06:23 am
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In Yakutsk, the capital of Russia's Yakutia, December started with usual minus 40 degrees centigrade (-40F). Take a look at pictures I took in the morning on December 3rd and in the evening on December 5th correspondingly.
Everything looked regular and stable. Fog, frost, and light winds. The cold seemed dry and burning. It was so till Dec. 8, when the abnormal warming happened suddenly. Locals wrapped in many warm layers, started feeling real hot. Temperature went up to -24C and got stuck at that level for next couple days.
Those days were as God's grace, but the enjoyable period appeared to be short. Today a thermometer again shows -40C. Was it a sign of climate changes happening in the world? Don't think so. Siberia remains to be Siberia, and Yakutia keeps on the title of the coldest Siberian region. Cold is cool!
One more thing. We are going to have minus-forty-degrees days till the end of February.
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bolotbootur
Yakutsk, Republic of Sakh, Russia
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at 07:15 on December 11th, 2009
Ha! I regulary check your temperatures there in the wintertime...makes me feel a little warmer!
ACP would feel right at home there.
at 10:59 on December 11th, 2009
ACP had some of that earlier this month and again over the weekend. Got to love it. Thank God it doesn't last till the end of February here. Had one year where the temperature never went above -40 for the whole month, so I know what it feels like when you get -25c. Thanks for the pictures
at 18:05 on December 11th, 2009
Oops. It seems I don't know the meaning of ACP. Is it somehow related to recent snowstorms in Alberta? I wrote about it on the blog http://coldunited.com.
In Central Yakutia (maybe, fortunately) we don't have such snowstorms. I would like to experience it someday. It must be awesome. But in Yakutia's Arctic zone it takes place regular. Hope to travel there in the near future.
at 18:36 on December 11th, 2009
bolotbootur they use ACP as an abbreviation for my name albertacowpoke here on NP.
at 08:23 on December 11th, 2009
Wow, that's really cold, stay warm!!
at 11:00 on December 11th, 2009
bolotbotoor thanks for those pictures.
at 11:24 on December 11th, 2009
Cowboy, if my memory is correct, they had -55 to -60 F for over a week straight last winter. I had to put mittens on just to read the temps!
at 18:13 on December 11th, 2009
:))
at 11:10 on December 11th, 2009
northern alberta has those temps as well keep warm
at 18:08 on December 11th, 2009
Yeah, -40 is not actually cold yet :) Hope to see -50C or -55C soon :) I'll share the pics of this cold for sure.
at 12:40 on December 11th, 2009
Lol it freezes the oil sands. It.s the only time they can dig in pipelines up there.
at 12:46 on December 11th, 2009
Thanks, you make me feel better here. It's so cold here and to know you're over there opposite the globe "enjoying" the same climate helps a lot. Well, you're a bit colder, but after -28 C it's all just more of the same "ouch." Have you tried blowing soap bubbles out there yet? It's very fun, they freeze before they break and you can watch the husks roll across the snow. It only works below -21C or so.
at 18:11 on December 11th, 2009
You're welcome. Strange. I've never tried blowing soap bubbles. It must be fun :) but I think I need to keep soap in a warm container so it won't be frozen before making bubbles :) Thanks for reminding this kids' game.
at 18:29 on December 11th, 2009
Hey, soap bubbles sound like fun, I'll try it when the temp drops again next week here in the Cariboo region of British Columbia. BTW, not sure if Bolot mentioned, but please check out: www.coldunited.com
at 18:38 on December 11th, 2009
just checked out www.coldunited.com looked like outside here in Alberta:)
at 09:53 on December 12th, 2009
Thanks for sharing that, bolutbootur. All around the world I keep reading stories proving the same thing - the climate is NOT getting any warmer. I looked up the data from the ERBE satellite and it actually confirmed what we’ve been thinking – no warming. This is because the long wave solar radiation is proven to be exiting the atmosphere at a rate inconsistent with the positive feedback forcing used in the CRU / NOAA / GISS computer models.
Those delegates at the Copenhagen Climate Summit should have been there last month when Copenhagen recorded its coldest November for 185 years.at 11:07 on December 12th, 2009
Luxury! I was born inside the Arctic circle and as a child we would drink freezy slush drinks just to warm up. Hell at -40 meant it was time to get out the BBQ.
Geez, perhaps someone should invite Al Gore there and see if he accepts? Not friggin likely! HA
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