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[Nickbat]

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/

Sodding global warming. 

Update:
*Further investigation reveals that it's not officially confirmed yet!

[Andy B]

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!   

[Vamps]

Been chilly up here, load of snow this weekend........

[plym ian]

bloody hell that's cold

I wonder if anti freeze works at that temp?

[albitz]

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.

[Rods2]

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.

[dbdb]

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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.

[Johnny English]

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.

[paul.lovejoy]

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

[TheBoy]

Remember, the Global Warming fanatics now want to call it Climate Change.

I was in Iceland last weekend, warmer there than here.

[PhilRich]

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.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

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!!

[78bex]

I know this may sound wreckless, but select position 3 on the heated seats ?

[Rods2]

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? 

[albitz]

No tyres at all Rod.Just spikes welded to the wheel rims.