Temperatures in Siberia dip to minus 56
Celsius as record snow blankets Moscow
Reuters,
by
Staff
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Posted By: NorthernDog,
12/4/2023 2:51:42 PM
MOSCOW - Temperatures in parts of Siberia plummeted to minus 56 degrees Celsius (minus 69 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday while blizzards blanketed Moscow in record snowfall and disrupted flights as winter weather swept across Russia. In the Sakha Republic, located in the northeastern part of Siberia and home to Yakutsk, one of the world's coldest cities, temperatures fell below minus 50 C, according to the region's weather stations. In Oymyakon, an area in Sakha, the temperature was recorded at minus 56 degrees Celsius on Monday evening. Russian forecasters said it would feel like more than minus 60 degrees Celsius in Oymyakon
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
paral04 12/4/2023 3:02:33 PM (No. 1610473)
Wow! You can imagine how cold it would have been if we didn't have extreme Global Warming.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
OhioNick 12/4/2023 3:06:21 PM (No. 1610478)
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall that Siberia's winter weather conditions are a predictor of the weather in the lower 48 states in the coming weeks. But didn't the Weather Service claim that a good chunk of the northern U.S. and Midwest will remain warmer than average due to a very strong El Nino?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Arrowhead 12/4/2023 3:06:55 PM (No. 1610479)
I guess Russia didn't get the message about global warming...LOL!!!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 12/4/2023 3:21:39 PM (No. 1610490)
Cold in Siberia is a story?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Hazymac 12/4/2023 3:26:51 PM (No. 1610494)
Being a weather freak, I follow this stuff daily. Here's Accuweather's temperature map of Alaska. Once you get to Alaska's map, just scroll west into Siberia and be amazed at how cold the inhabited world can be. This morning I saw temperatures of -60F at Orlinaya and at Tompo (near Oymyakon, where it can get to -90 F). In a city west of Orlinaya called Lema, the mercury hit -73 F just a while ago today, and January's maximum cold is a month away yet. That's cold enough to freeze the testicles off a brass monkey. Tic tic tic. What will we see in the next two months? Incidentally, you can scroll all over the world on this map, even down to Antarctica--I saw -110 F in August at the Russian Vostok Station--or anywhere else in the world.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/alaska/current-weather-maps
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DVC 12/4/2023 4:00:18 PM (No. 1610508)
Yes, extreme cold and high snow fall are....."caused by man-made global warming", right?
The sunspot numbers have been predicting colder weather for 40+ years. Not a duration of cold for 40 years, but decreasing sunspots for four 11 year cycles seems to indicate colder weather ahead for an unknown duration.
Warming helps plants, animals and humans. Cooling harms everyone and everything.
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DVC 12/4/2023 4:03:16 PM (No. 1610509)
I've gone for walks after dinner in Siberia in -25F temps. Old Russian saying, " There is no bad weather, only bad clothes."
Dress well and you'll be OK. Backpacking in fall in Wyoming mountains will teach you how to stay warm by dressing properly. There is no "indoors" available other than an unheated tent, which does get you out of the wind. So, you learn. Layers, wool, and down work great. Polyester long underwear is excellent.
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Hazymac 12/4/2023 4:43:29 PM (No. 1610523)
In the Pole of Cold in Siberia there are two places that have had reliable measurements of -90 F (-68 C), Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon. Australian 60 Minutes sent a crew to Oymyakon*, about two days' hard travel east out of Yakutsk. The Aussies left a nice ripe yellow banana outside for a night, and in the morning used that same banana--frozen as solid as a brickbat--to drive a nail through a 2x4. Those banana molecules didn't feel like moving much in seventy below, even when they were used as a hammer. E-lec-a-tri-cal banana. *Oymyakon has a sign in town claiming -71.2 C (-96.2 F), measured in about 1923. Outside Antarctica, it's the coldest place on earth.
American record in -79.8 F, rounded to -80, in January 1971 at Prospect Creek on the Dalton Highway, fifteen miles north of the Arctic Circle. Canada's record is -81.4 F in 1947 at the (now defunct) airfield at Snag, a couple of hundred miles southeast of Fairbanks, just over the Alaska border. Greenland got to -87 F in 1954. The coldest temperature measured by a person (not a satellite) is -129 F at Vostok. -135.8 has been measured by satellite on Dome Argus. The Russians say that doesn't count.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Northcross 12/4/2023 4:54:18 PM (No. 1610528)
Dang. They should have held COP28 somewhere in Siberia.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Newtsche 12/4/2023 5:34:08 PM (No. 1610542)
As you try to wrap your head around such cold, remember the battle of Chosin Reservoir in Korea that US troops fought against a much larger Chinese force in Korea.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 12/4/2023 5:46:22 PM (No. 1610546)
Can you imagine how they'd be doing if they needed to rely on Wind and Solar for their electricity?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
konocti95 12/4/2023 6:30:43 PM (No. 1610555)
Time to re-read Jack's classic, "To Build a Fire." Of course, that was only 50 below.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Digiconver 12/4/2023 6:33:37 PM (No. 1610556)
Pretty cold. Another 22 deg c and it'll be raining (snowing?) Carbon dioxide over there.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 12/4/2023 6:44:02 PM (No. 1610561)
Too cold? Climate change. Too hot? Climate change. Too wet? Climate change! Too dry? Guess what! Climate change! Get the idea?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/4/2023 6:46:18 PM (No. 1610565)
Isn’t it hilarious how this always happens when “world leaders” gather in some mega-expensive resort to rant about global warming? None of these climate scientists or activists have made a single prediction in the last 50 years which has actually come to pass. With a record like that you’d think that people would quit listening to them.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
volksford 12/4/2023 6:49:53 PM (No. 1610568)
Pretty tuff in those Gulags
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DVC 12/4/2023 7:06:39 PM (No. 1610584)
Re #13, technically correct, but since CO2 makes up about 400 parts per million in the atmosphere, which is about 0.4 parts per 1,000, or 0.04 percent....there wouldn't be much CO2 snow around.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/4/2023 7:19:54 PM (No. 1610591)
Boy it's a good thing it wasn't cold and snowing the winter the Germans went in battle for Moscow.
Wait: I think it was cold and snowing.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Trigger2 12/4/2023 10:05:31 PM (No. 1610704)
Global warming....global warming...global warming.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DanvilleBill 12/4/2023 10:30:44 PM (No. 1610710)
As a kid I once worked in Montana tending cattle on a big ranch. During that hot summer my foremen told us that it could get pretty chilly in the winter. He was right Minus 56 degrees. I love Montana but I think it's best during Spring and Fall.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
valinva 12/4/2023 10:31:08 PM (No. 1610711)
They asked an old man why he wants to live in Siberia. He replied, I like to see my spit freeze before it hits the ground.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
BarryNo 12/4/2023 10:50:25 PM (No. 1610715)
It's Global Warming.
Keep saying that. I hope it keeps you cozy at night.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Digiconver 12/4/2023 11:41:55 PM (No. 1610727)
Agree #17 it wouldn't be much of a snow storm. (Another 140 degrees or so and it would be one heck of a nitrogen rainstorm, though).
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 12/5/2023 4:33:52 AM (No. 1610773)
Lived in Montana for 33 years. Below zero temps were the norm. Dress for the weather.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
franq 12/5/2023 5:54:35 AM (No. 1610778)
Ha, #8, I'm just mad about Saffron...
But don't eat the yellow snow.
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Basking in global warming.... glo-BULL warming.
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broken01 12/5/2023 10:16:45 AM (No. 1610956)
Sounds like a "cool" place to send all of those snot nosed pro Hamas college students.
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