Yakutian (Siberian) villages are the coldest places in the world now!

On 11.28.11, In Climate, Competition, Daily, News, Places, Science, Technologies, By Bolot
Siberian villagest are the coldest places in the world now! Woo hoo!

Siberian villages are the coldest places in the world now! Woo hoo!

The only website that gives the full answer to the question, “Which places are the coldest on the planet now?” is Ogimet.com. Check it!

Currently, the world’s coldest place is Oymyakon (also known as Ojmjakon) in East Yakutia, Siberia / Russia). It’s -46.9C now.

Other top coldest places belong to Yakutian (Siberian) villages:

2. Segen-Kyuel’, -46.4 °C
3. Tompo, -44.4 °C
4. Batamaj, -43.7 °C
5. Ust’- Moma, -43.1 °C
6. Curapca, -43.0 °C
7. Verhojansk, -42.9 °C

Do you know what? This winter will be coldest in Yakutia (East Siberia/Yakutia) definitely, as such lowest temperatures are usual for this region.

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Why Oymyakon & Verkhoyansk not in WX-Now’s Coldest Place on Earth Chart?

On 01.24.11, In Climate, Competition, Daily, News, Places, Science, Technologies, By Bolot
Coldest places on Earth at WX-Now... and no Siberian settlements of Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon in the top...

Coldest places on Earth at WX-Now... and no Siberian settlements of Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon in the top...

A year ago I chatted with Jordi, the Catalonian meteorology fan, who runs an amazing blog about amazing snow, http://amazingsnow.wordpress.com/. Think, he is more than just a climate fan, he is actually a pro. Once he wrote the article Limits of Oymyakon for Cold United. A professional could create such a scientific text only.

So I asked him, whether it is possible to display the chart of the current coldest places weather info on any website and, if yes, how to do that. He said that the lowest for “the moment” was not an easy thing to find.

However, Jordi gave me the link to the weather info website www.ogimet.com, I presume, he was working on its development, and said that the world’s coldest places ranking didn’t work yet at that moment…

A few months ago, I received a message from a class mate, who lives now in Calgary. He provided the link to WX-Now’s Coldest places on Earth page and stated, “Calgary is the second coldest place in the world!” I said, “What?!”

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How does a compass work at the North Pole? Answer by Antony Jinman, a Polar explorer.

On 12.15.10, In Advices, Announcements, expedition, Technologies, By Bolot
Antony Jinman on the way to the North Pole. Photo by Darcy St-Laurent, Antony's team mate.

Antony Jinman in the Arctic

Antony Jinman on the way to the North Pole. Photo by Darcy St-Laurent, Antony's team mate.

Recently, Antony Jinman (www.antonyjinman.com), a UK Polar explorer, announced that he was looking forward to planning another North Pole project for 2012. Immediately, he’s got replies and the first question, that appeared to be great, indeed.

The question came from his friend, Regina Brinker, who said, “A student yesterday asked how a compass works at the north pole. Any noticeable change, or aren’t compasses used anymore?”

Antony replied:

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Philips WakeUp Project: Giving morning light to Longyearbyen, Svalbard/Spitsbergen

On 10.11.10, In Announcements, Climate, Daily, Lives, Photos, Projects, Technologies, By Bolot

Longyearbyen

This year Philips has launched a pretty interesting experiment project. The company gave Philips Wake-up Lights to all residents of Longyearbyen, the world’s northernmost town, in order to see, if its clinically proven claim of ‘waking you up feeling refreshed’ is still true in the extremes of an arctic winter.

Longyearbyen is the centre of Svalbard on the western coast of Spitsberge and considered also as the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago in southern Adventfjorden.

Well, frankly saying, I have no idea of what cold weather extremes they’ve got in Longyearbyen, but apparently they experience the same lack of sun lights in winter as Yakutia’s Arctic settlement of Tiksi… in the course of four long months. So it is worth to follow the project via its facebook fan page or Flickr pool.

By the way, enjoy more fantastic Longyearbyen pictures! (more…)

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Gadget: Will hot cold weather gear survive in Siberia?

On 11.06.09, In Humours, Lives, News, Technologies, By Bolot

Digged a really funny story at WinnipegSun.com today. A staff writer Joanne Richard raves about the radically inventive Radiance winter jacket which features built in heaters. Thanks to this new gadget, she says, she is no longer afraid of the big, bad cold. She asks readers to call her a snow hottie. Oh! Really?! Nice to meet you, snow hottie :)

Columbia's Snow Hottie and Bugathermo Boot What’s so special about this jacket? Please, read further about it. I would like to know your opinions.

I am trying to be serious and not to laugh until my cries. I just know that local villagers, especially the resident of Oymyakon and Verkhoyansk, will do that. Everytime when they see freezing strangers wrapped up in their ultra warm clothes, they love repeating “There is nothing better than fur clothes.”

So… Let’s read.

Joanne Richard writes “No need to come in from the cold or the freezing hockey arena. With the flip of a switch — just like those heavenly heated seats in a car — I’m warm all over and totally loving it thanks to Mountain Hardwear outerwear.”

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