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Title: New world record cold temperature
Post by: Nickbat on 24 February 2013, 23:42:53
Northern Hemisphere Sets New, All-Time Record Cold Temperature: -71.2°C, and it shatters the previous record of -68°C (-90.4°F) set in 1933!*

http://iceagenow.info/2013/02/northern-hemisphere-sets-new-all-time-record-cold-temperature-96-1%C2%B0f-oymyakon-siberia/ (http://iceagenow.info/2013/02/northern-hemisphere-sets-new-all-time-record-cold-temperature-96-1%C2%B0f-oymyakon-siberia/)

Sodding global warming.  ;) ;)

Update:
*Further investigation reveals that it's not officially confirmed yet!
Title: Re: New world record cold temperature
Post by: Andy B on 24 February 2013, 23:47:45
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!   :o :o :o :o
Title: Re: New world record cold temperature
Post by: Vamps on 24 February 2013, 23:54:04
Been chilly up here, load of snow this weekend........ :D :D
Title: Re: New world record cold temperature
Post by: plym ian on 25 February 2013, 00:31:47
bloody hell that's cold :o

I wonder if anti freeze works at that temp?
Title: Re: New world record cold temperature
Post by: albitz on 25 February 2013, 00:38:04
I have my doubts. I remember reading years ago that in winter time in siberia they dont switch off the engines on trucks etc. from the beginning of winter until the start of spring. :-\
Title: Re: New world record cold temperature
Post by: Rods2 on 25 February 2013, 00:44:12
Interesting website, especially the page with the last 15,000 years of temperatures.

Last year Eastern Europe had an exceptionally cold winter where it was exported from Siberia. My wife's village had a low of -33degC and I know cem said they had a record low of -30degC in Turkey.

Personally, given the choice between a few degrees warming and another ice age give me the global warming every time. Not that it is in our hands, humans are mere bystanders when it comes to climate.
Title: Re: New world record cold temperature
Post by: dbdb on 25 February 2013, 02:10:07
..

Sodding global warming.  ;) ;)

This is why science stopped calling it Global Warming and started calling it Climate Change. Curent predictions are for 5 degree C average global  increase by 2100.  If it was just uniformly 5 degrees hotter everywhere and everyday in 2100 it would not be such a problem.
Title: Re: New world record cold temperature
Post by: Johnny English on 25 February 2013, 05:23:38
I have my doubts. I remember reading years ago that in winter time in siberia they dont switch off the engines on trucks etc. from the beginning of winter until the start of spring. :-\

Easy to do where the fuel so cheap...anyway I used to see a broadcast from  Murmansk over there the truck driver simply literally underfired his own Kamaz. Not a big deal.
Title: Re: New world record cold temperature
Post by: paul.lovejoy on 25 February 2013, 05:35:19
I have my doubts. I remember reading years ago that in winter time in siberia they dont switch off the engines on trucks etc. from the beginning of winter until the start of spring. :-\

you could not do that over here , it would be gone and on its way to serbia via Liverpool. Insurance does not cover you if you leave your keys in it either :o :o
Title: Re: New world record cold temperature
Post by: TheBoy on 25 February 2013, 08:31:11
Remember, the Global Warming fanatics now want to call it Climate Change.

I was in Iceland last weekend, warmer there than here.
Title: Re: New world record cold temperature
Post by: PhilRich on 25 February 2013, 13:28:52
From Wikipedia:


Verkhoyansk is one of the places considered the northern Pole of Cold, the other being town of Oymyakon. The lowest temperature recorded there, in February 1892, was −69.8 °C (−93.6 °F) recorded three days in a row on February 5, 6 and 7,[5] along with −68.8 °C (−91.8 °F) on February 8, 1892,[citation needed] although there is some question as to exactly what these original measurements were. [5] However on January 1 and 15, 1885 and February 9, 1892 there were a recorded temperature of −67.7 °C (−90.0 °F) that would be, together with the same reading at Oymyakon, the lowest temperature ever for the Northern Hemisphere if the −69.8 °C (−93.6 °F) reading from that February was not.
Title: Re: New world record cold temperature
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 25 February 2013, 15:46:32
From Wikipedia:


Verkhoyansk is one of the places considered the northern Pole of Cold, the other being town of Oymyakon. The lowest temperature recorded there, in February 1892, was −69.8 °C (−93.6 °F) recorded three days in a row on February 5, 6 and 7,[5] along with −68.8 °C (−91.8 °F) on February 8, 1892,[citation needed] although there is some question as to exactly what these original measurements were. [5] However on January 1 and 15, 1885 and February 9, 1892 there were a recorded temperature of −67.7 °C (−90.0 °F) that would be, together with the same reading at Oymyakon, the lowest temperature ever for the Northern Hemisphere if the −69.8 °C (−93.6 °F) reading from that February was not.


Exactly it is all in history and what is apparently happening today has happened some time before.  Nothing is new, with nature doing what it always does; change!! ::) ::) ::) ;)
Title: Re: New world record cold temperature
Post by: 78bex on 25 February 2013, 22:39:56
I know this may sound wreckless, but select position 3 on the heated seats ?
Title: Re: New world record cold temperature
Post by: Rods2 on 25 February 2013, 23:36:29
I have my doubts. I remember reading years ago that in winter time in siberia they dont switch off the engines on trucks etc. from the beginning of winter until the start of spring. :-\

Do they use winter tyres, or is it not cold enough to need them?  ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: New world record cold temperature
Post by: albitz on 25 February 2013, 23:41:04
No tyres at all Rod.Just spikes welded to the wheel rims. :y ;D
Title: Re: New world record cold temperature
Post by: Vamps on 25 February 2013, 23:44:38
I have my doubts. I remember reading years ago that in winter time in siberia they dont switch off the engines on trucks etc. from the beginning of winter until the start of spring. :-\

Do they use winter tyres, or is it not cold enough to need them?  ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D ;D

 :D :D :D