His name is Andrei. He is the director of sports center in the settlement of Tomtor in the valley of Oymyakon. In winter with its usual extremely cold weather, he likes running from home to his work place in the early morning and… swimming in the Kujdusun brook, that gets never frozen even under -50 degrees Centigrade.
Via Hannes Rada
Yes, we did it. We were in Yakutia’s valley of Oymyakon. Our first morning in the coldest place in Siberia. It was -52C. Pretty good, indeed 
and felt really good. Watch the video and see what cold air we were breating.
Strange. It was -52C, but we felt really cold. We couldn’t stay outside more than 15 minutes. But when we registered -57.1C in Tomtor on the day of our depature for Yakutsk, it was bearable. We were even surprised at such a low temp at that moment. (more…)
Pole of Cold: Oymyakon
1 km from Oymyakon, Sakha (Yakutiya) russia
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Meteorological station Tomtor - google map: Tomtor
Oymyakon: – google map: Oimjakon
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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…)
2009 (c) ColdUnited.com
