“Winter Bull”
Lilia Popova
Öl auf Leinwand, 90×100 cm
Nov. 23, 2009, Germany | Traditionally in the end of Novermber on Hamburg’s canals and rivers swans were gathered to be delivered to their winter shelters at Alster Lake. Waters in the lake are heated, and swans are cared and fed till the spring. (more…)
Renato, I’ve read the following news from The Associated Press on Nov. 22, 2009. Is it true? Confused with all these F/C degrees. Can you give clearification?
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) – It’s been bitter cold in Bettles, a small village 200 miles north of Fairbanks.
The village in the foothills of the Brooks Range recorded a new record low temperature of 47 degrees below zero on Saturday. It was the fifth day in a row a new record low was set in the town, and the sixth day in a row that the temperature was more than 40 below zero. (more…)
Currently I visit extension courses on auctions, contests, etc at Yakutsk State University. Now my ordinary day is as follows. At 8:20 am I leave my kids at kindergarten. A few weeks ago it was the very time to view sunrise. Once, on Nov. 20, 2009, I decided to bring along a camera to take pictures of the rising sun. But I failed to do that after the kindergarten. I saw the first lights only, but no sun. See the above pic. I walked along the quay to the university with the hope to see the scarlet shafts of sunrise… and eventually I started shivering. Took a bus and finally got into the building.
Sunrise happened during the lecture, after 9 am. A pic above was taken through the window glass. (more…)
Today I received a message from Claire, of the online project Global Voices en Français. She gave a link to the blog of Boukary, her blogger-friend in Mali, West Africa, precisely to the post dedicated to the cold season in his area where they suffer heat.
While in town, each between home and shut the door because it is cool outside, the cold season is the period of family reunification in the rural night.
If during the cold season everyone is focused on his show or his favorite movie on TV in town, deep in the house with less noise for fear of not escape some of the broadcast or film, the cold season is the period of exchange between old and young people in rural areas. (more…)
On Nov. 4, 2009, in Yakutsk, the capital of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), a group of three people descended into the world’s deepest ice vertical tunnel, Shergin’s Shaft, that had been buried and forgotten for more than half a century. It was the important historical, scientific, cultural event called “The Storm of Shergin’s Shaft” designed to get a few rare samples for permafrost researchers and show a new way to observe never-melting, frozen soil layers.
Read More: AskYakutia.com (Source)
On 11.16.09, In Climate, By amazingsnow
Talking about Ojmjakon involves talking about the cradle of the cold, at least one of the few cradles of the planet. It is known that the -71.2°C is there, like a record, but probably won’t be satisfactorily demonstrate.
I expose a graph below, courtesy of forum collegue (rs), very involved in monitoring global temperatures, which shows us the detail of the number of days (since 1943) per year that Ojmjakon has reached (even exceeded) the -60ºC. As seen at first sight, and within natural variability, the powerful years to achieve this figure are from some time ago, with the decade 1985-95 as the least conducive to these rigors. In recent years, since 2000, seems to appear the 6 again, not with the frequency of periods that are obvious in the graph, but not staying at an impossible figure as in the aforementioned decade.
Below, temperature record of the last two winters (more…)
Hm. I’ve never experienced the following problems with video and audio. Wally Young, Abilene/TX, USA, is wondering via Abilene Reporter News and Abilene Reporter-News:
“I have run into something that is a mystery to me. Ever since the change from analog to digital for TV and the cold weather, all I can get on the four channels is useless. If the temperature is below 65 degrees, the audio is silent and the video is scrambled. When the temperature reaches 70 degrees, all is well again.”
The first frost hit the Verkhoyansk, the coldest town on Earth
Further, please, see the current Yakutia Weather Map:
Yakutia Weather Map, as of Nov. 10, 2009.
See the enlarged map at Maps.Mail.ru
I need to make clarification. According to my personal daily observation, Verkhoyansk keeps the position of the coldest town in Yakutia, Siberia/Russia. It is usually colder than in Oymyakon. Besides, you have to know, that Oymyakon, the well-known as the Pole of Cold, is not a town or city. It is a little village. So it can be considered as the coldest town on Earth at all. Verkhoyansk has the official status of town.
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Statistics since Dec. 21, 2009.