It's gone a little chilly in Yakutsk

[Hoofy]

Jasandjules said:

Hoofy said:

Just wondering if the heating can cope with that coldness.

Some of the poorer people have little heaters in a room they share and that is it. They also have rugs all over the walls for extra insulation. If you stay with a poor family, you can also expect the ice cream to be on the windowsill, they just reach outside to get it...

How warm would a room get in a poor person's house then?

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Wolfer said:

"Feels like -52" !!!!!!!

I saw that. Crazy! Do people walk around in -42 saying to each other
A "It's bloody freezing today."
B "No it isn't, it's only -42"
A "Really, it feels much colder, I must be going soft."

[Funkycoldribena]

el stovey said:

I'm surprised all these antarctic survey workers aren't all wearing fir. Someone should tell them they've got it all wrong.

[Jasandjules]

Hoofy said:

How warm would a room get in a poor person's house then?

Plenty warm enough to just have a shirt on. This was a block of flats as well, so presumably they benefit from the heating of the neighbours.

[nigelpugh7]

RegMolehusband said:

They don't let a little cold snap stop things

Has anyone noticed that the goods for sale at all those stores seem to be a variety of frozen fish stood upright?

The middle box seems to contain what looks like a Pike?

I presume when it's that cold there is no need for chillers or a freezer!,

[Adenauer]

nigelpugh7 said:

I presume when it's that cold there is no need for chillers or a freezer!,

This thread is like a gathering place for some of the greatest minds on earth.

[Smiley198700]

Aren't their summers actually quite warm - mid 30s? Only last for about a month but must be bizarre living somewhere with such extremes of temperature.

[Hoofy]

Jasandjules said:

Hoofy said:

How warm would a room get in a poor person's house then?

Plenty warm enough to just have a shirt on. This was a block of flats as well, so presumably they benefit from the heating of the neighbours.

Oh, ok! Guess the building has decent insulation.

[Blaster72]

Adenauer said:

nigelpugh7 said:

I presume when it's that cold there is no need for chillers or a freezer!,

This thread is like a gathering place for some of the greatest minds on earth.

[nigelpugh7]

Adenauer said:

This thread is like a gathering place for some of the greatest minds on earth.

I appreciate I was stating the bleeding obvious, but my point was I wonder if that is how they display the fish ( if they are fish? ) for sale!

Sorry if I am not up to your elite standards, I was just genuinely curious!

[Adenauer]

nigelpugh7 said:

I appreciate I was stating the bleeding obvious, but my point was I wonder if that is how they display the fish ( if they are fish? ) for sale!

Sorry if I am not up to your elite standards, I was just genuinely curious!

No need to get your knickers in a twist, Mr Pugh.

[Rick_1138]

Isn't this the coldest city in the world though, so they will have infrastructure to be able to work away in that.

[anonymous-user]

Funkycoldribena said:

el stovey said:

I'm surprised all these antarctic survey workers aren't all wearing fir. Someone should tell them they've got it all wrong.

Looks warm

[Lost soul]

Adenauer said:

nigelpugh7 said:

I presume when it's that cold there is no need for chillers or a freezer!,

This thread is like a gathering place for some of the greatest minds on earth.

[nigelpugh7]

Adenauer said:

No need to get your knickers in a twist, Mr Pugh.

I am cool with it! did you see what I did there, it's beacuse I am a simple minded village idiot you see! But you already pointed that out!

Any way it seems they store all the fish and meat that way in the Yakutsk Market!

http://poleofcold.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/D...

Looks like a pretty cool place to visit to me, oops sorry !

Edited by nigelpugh7 on Thursday 18th December 15:13

[sunbeam alpine]

The fools. They've gone and put it in the freezer instead of the fridge.


Oh no, that's Yakult

[Jon321]

Amazing temperature lows and yet life goes on clearly. We'd be in a mess here in the UK if it got to that level I bet.

[Rude-boy]

First year we went to Saariselka it dipped to -47 one night.

The locals were taking about hearing the logs that made up their homes cracking in the cold. We were moaning about the bottle of Port that had frozen in my back pack having walked up to the top of the mountain to spend the night watching the lights.

First and only time I have formed ice on eyelashes and brows!

[Adenauer]

Jon321 said:

We'd be in a mess here in the UK if it got to that level I bet.

Can you imagine the news readers!!

'We are expecting a catastrophic weather explosion with temperatures plummeting down to minus 40°c, there is a high level red one alert over the entire country, the windchill factor could wipe out most of the population, Chester council have run out of salt.'

[dirty boy]

I was in the middle of a frozen lake at -37 once.

Not amused.

I was layered up and all sorts but i'm sure my lungs were frozen on the inside.



Ironically, that night I burnt myself on the hot coals in the sauna.