It's Turned Chilly in Yakutsk. Population 380,000
Discussion
I started reading up on this during December when we had the last cold snap. I found the following video on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpZHXmrfjLg
Surely there must be better places to live....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpZHXmrfjLg
Surely there must be better places to live....
It has warmed up then.
It was -71C when this was filmed ( afew weeks ago I think)
Clingfilm for windows !!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOltGIaDPlY
It was -71C when this was filmed ( afew weeks ago I think)
Clingfilm for windows !!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOltGIaDPlY
Why do people live there?
Where you live will depend on your residence visa, the same will also apply to where you work. A lot of employment will be in State owned enterprises, so relatively secure.
Mines in the area produce a fifth of the world’s diamonds. Valuable natural gas can also be recovered there.
People don’t like change, better the devil you know. Some people in Canada/Alaska live in very challenging places, its what they are used too.
Utilities will be state owned, electricity, heating (coal powered) and gas.
Heating, district/state owned companies will provide this by pumping hot water around the city for central heating.
Buses travel in convoy, with a couple of empty ones in case of breakdown.
People dress for the cold; strangely for us, they will many layers on the lower part of their body and less on the upper part. It’s not uncommon to have synthetic fur lined trousers/boots and 3+ pairs of long johns.
People spend a very limited amount time outside. A lot of employers will provide buses, which collect you near your home and take to your place of work. Shopping centres, entertainment venues and sports centres and all public building have central heating.
Life expectancy for males (many of whom were miners) was very low, under 60. This has vastly improved in recent years and now stands 69 years.
Before anyone asks, I don’t live there, but I do live in a similar kind of city.
Where you live will depend on your residence visa, the same will also apply to where you work. A lot of employment will be in State owned enterprises, so relatively secure.
Mines in the area produce a fifth of the world’s diamonds. Valuable natural gas can also be recovered there.
People don’t like change, better the devil you know. Some people in Canada/Alaska live in very challenging places, its what they are used too.
Utilities will be state owned, electricity, heating (coal powered) and gas.
Heating, district/state owned companies will provide this by pumping hot water around the city for central heating.
Buses travel in convoy, with a couple of empty ones in case of breakdown.
People dress for the cold; strangely for us, they will many layers on the lower part of their body and less on the upper part. It’s not uncommon to have synthetic fur lined trousers/boots and 3+ pairs of long johns.
People spend a very limited amount time outside. A lot of employers will provide buses, which collect you near your home and take to your place of work. Shopping centres, entertainment venues and sports centres and all public building have central heating.
Life expectancy for males (many of whom were miners) was very low, under 60. This has vastly improved in recent years and now stands 69 years.
Before anyone asks, I don’t live there, but I do live in a similar kind of city.
If our temps go from say 0 degrees Celsius to say +10, that jump of 10 is very noticeable in terms of how it feels. My weather app shows some weeks for Yakutsk varying -40 to say -30. I wonder if people that live there notice such variance given that both are still bloody cold!
In other words does there come a point where its so cold that you barely notice the difference.
In other words does there come a point where its so cold that you barely notice the difference.
daqinggregg said:
People dress for the cold; strangely for us, they will many layers on the lower part of their body and less on the upper part. It’s not uncommon to have synthetic fur lined trousers/boots and 3+ pairs of long johns.
That’s interesting - my legs and feet have felt colder in the cold snaps we’ve had this year. I’ve never noticed before and put it down to age.Obviously no comparison to here in SW London but yesterday it was -5 on my walk to the station in the morning and it felt very bastid cold.
In the evening, on the walk back it was a balmy 3c and was reveling in the heat, no hat no gloves
A few weeks ago 3c would have been shocking but now it's a heatwave
Some of our lot were working outside in Davos but say that London feels much colder than the -14 they endured out there.
Guess we are a lot damper hence why our cold, and hot, feel worse.
In the evening, on the walk back it was a balmy 3c and was reveling in the heat, no hat no gloves
A few weeks ago 3c would have been shocking but now it's a heatwave
Some of our lot were working outside in Davos but say that London feels much colder than the -14 they endured out there.
Guess we are a lot damper hence why our cold, and hot, feel worse.
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