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The coldest place on Earth is even colder than scientists thought

I live in Northern BC, it drops down to -40Cabout twice a year. And often hits -20C. Those two temps are nothing alike. Nothing.

In -20, it's cold, it hurts, the air is dry. You turn your car off for an hour it won't start.

At -40, moisture in the air is flash freezing forming sparkles that look like magic. The cold burns all over your body like your lying on a bed of coal. And if you shut your car off for a few mins, it won't start.

You can most definitely tell the difference between -20 and -40. One is very cold, and the other is "Oh my god I just spit and it froze to my lips upon exit of my mouth"

Maybe our +40C afternoons aren't so bad after all.
 
Minus -60, Tower Minnesota back in '96.....I came to realize hell wasn't warm, it was cold.

I have experience colder when I was station in Alaska in the early 80's.....but really, below -60, the cold is just ridiculously painful.

Tower, Minnesota...
Nothing like living in an apartment, waking up and looking out the window and seeing a cemetery...great way to start the day! :lamo
 
Tower, Minnesota...
Nothing like living in an apartment, waking up and looking out the window and seeing a cemetery...great way to start the day! :lamo

Wow...some other poor soul that has actually been there? :mrgreen:
 
I live in Northern BC, it drops down to -40Cabout twice a year. And often hits -20C. Those two temps are nothing alike. Nothing.

In -20, it's cold, it hurts, the air is dry. You turn your car off for an hour it won't start.

At -40, moisture in the air is flash freezing forming sparkles that look like magic. The cold burns all over your body like your lying on a bed of coal. And if you shut your car off for a few mins, it won't start.

You can most definitely tell the difference between -20 and -40. One is very cold, and the other is "Oh my god I just spit and it froze to my lips upon exit of my mouth"
My daughter was in Edmonton, AB for 7 years, she said like we have heat warning days, the news posted skin exposure times.
She was telling me that at below -20, the city would open the subway tunnels for the homeless,
(I was thinking their homeless are a lot tougher than ours)!
Thankfully I only visited in Summer, My wife spent 3 months up there in winter, and said it was very unpleasant.
 
This was...a waste of time to read. So after an analysis, they determined that the temperature can get 13 degrees colder than the coldest recorded temperature. We haven't actually measured that temperature, it's just what they figure from an analysis, which could be wrong.
 
My daughter was in Edmonton, AB for 7 years, she said like we have heat warning days, the news posted skin exposure times.
She was telling me that at below -20, the city would open the subway tunnels for the homeless,
(I was thinking their homeless are a lot tougher than ours)!
Thankfully I only visited in Summer, My wife spent 3 months up there in winter, and said it was very unpleasant.

- 20 is not bad. Cars and trucks still run generally normal at that temp. Below - 27C things start to not work well. Belts get very stiff older cars have radiators break. At -35 C city schools will close

At - 40 we don't give a F---- because we got a heater in the truck and we are off to the rodeo.

Above is from a song in the 80s
 
In Minnesota we call that "a bit nippy."
 
In Minnesota we call that "a bit nippy."

In California, 50 is a bit nippy, 40 is freezing cold, and 30 is an excuse to stay home from work. Anything below 32 is a crisis, at least for the citrus growers.
 
-135 C, I am guessing the CO2 level is very near zero at that temperature.

No, the oceans will capture quite a bit. Over time, it would go near past historical levels, around 170 ppm.
 
Didn't algore and barry tell us that by now there would be no cold spots left on earth? How do leftie retards keep believing in the lie?

If they actually sad that, they are either stupid, or counts on the stupidity of their constituents.
 
If they actually sad that, they are either stupid, or counts on the stupidity of their constituents.

If? Come on. You’re not dumb enough to think for a moment anyone said Antarctica wouldn’t be cold.
 
If? Come on. You’re not dumb enough to think for a moment anyone said Antarctica wouldn’t be cold.

I have been told lots that the world could be flooded by 70m if all the ice were to melt so we must panic now........

Yep, lots of that.
 
I have been told lots that the world could be flooded by 70m if all the ice were to melt so we must panic now........

Yep, lots of that.

The thing is, for that much ice to melt, the thermal expansion of the oceans would add more yet.
 
I have been told lots that the world could be flooded by 70m if all the ice were to melt so we must panic now........

Yep, lots of that.

Nobody cares what Al Gore says except right wingers
 
The thing is, for that much ice to melt, the thermal expansion of the oceans would add more yet.

Not 70m, and that was put to bed when the IPCC madethe mistake of getting some mechanical engineers to write a report on it. 7cm per degree of warming over a century.
 
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