Can you imagine going out to this Stevenson Screen in Verkhojansk and taking a reading in – 60C cold? Let’s count our blessing here in the USA and Canada that we don’t have to deal with these kinds of temperatures, yet.
Stevenson Screen at Verhojansk Meteo Station looking ENE
www.rian.ru
Northeast Siberia braces for extreme cold of -60C
15/12/2008 12:45 YAKUTSK, December 15 (RIA Novosti) – Temperatures in the northeast Siberian republic of Yakutia could fall to minus 60 degrees Celsius (minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit) in the next few days, the local meteorological service said Monday.
With average low temperatures in Yakutia dropping below minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit) overnight, weather in the town of Verkhoyansk dropped overnight to minus 53 degrees Celsius (minus 63.4 degrees Fahrenheit), while in Oymyakon it reached minus 57 degrees Celsius (minus 70.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
“However, this is not the limit – in the next few days weather in the town of Krestyakh could drop below minus 58 degrees Celsius (minus 72.4 degrees Fahrenheit),” the meteorological service spokesman said.
The spokesman added that the current spell of extremely cold weather was due to an influx of cold polar air masses.
Yakutia has two places that contest the honor of being named the North Pole of cold, or the place where the lowest-ever temperature in the Northern hemisphere was recorded – Verkhoyansk with a record of minus 67.8 degrees Celsius (minus 90 degrees Fahrenheit) and Oymyakon with a minimum of minus 67.7 degrees Celsius (minus 89.9 degrees Fahrenheit).
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I wonder what the NOAA USHCN weather station data in NE Siberia will show for the December average temperature.
Looking forward to the January Data.
It would be funny if they re-posted the november data or something like that.
Or will the average be lower than normal?
Hi,
I’ve just ended to search thru Russian pages not knowing about the post. So… something real cool. 😉
All about Yakutsk (Yakutia).
Today: http://www.hmn.ru/index1.php?code=50&value=24959
3 days: http://www.hmn.ru/index1.php?code=4&value=24959
Archive: http://www.hmn.ru/index1.php?code=8&value=24959
Airport: http://avia.meteonovosti.ru/index.php?index=1&icao=UEEE&iso_cntr=RU
For future use:
Meteo Novosti: http://www.hmn.ru/index.php?check=1
RIA Novosti: http://www.rian.ru/forecast/?forecast_type=1
Russia’s Weather: http://meteo.infospace.ru/russia/html/index.htm
Original text in Russian: http://www.dni.ru/society/2008/12/15/155430.html
Please use Google translate: http://translate.google.com/translate_t
Regards
If it gets down to -78.5°C, then the CO2 will freeze out of the air as frost.
Which makes me suspect of CO2 concentrations trapped in ice core samples.
Having braved this kinda of cold before, absolutely been there. If we get our wishes, we can now look forward to power supplies by our gerbals and many dinners of weeds. Thank goodness its starting to freeze everywhere! Our food supply is now ensured.
We couldn’t have our crops grow better with longer growing seasons and increased CO2, especially if they are irrigated. No.
Is your freedom to breath now going to be determined in some back room in Europe?
It boggles the mind that we are still being told [by Gore and others] that “Arctic temperatures are far above normal”. Reality is Arctic air with temperatures not seen since the mid-1970s is not only bearing down on Siberia but on good parts of North America and Europe as well.
I’ll gladly give you a quitclaim deed to any part of the Earth’s surface where I can convert from °C to °F in my head.
Meh.
Record lows and snowfall are coming in from Oregon, Idaho and Washington:
http://www.weather.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=pdt
Many are breaking 70+ years of data.
Tomorrow will bring more in. I have 9 inches of snow in my front yard in Pendleton. School was two hours late today. We are a hardy, if not stupid, bunch.
Damn….. and I’ve just invested in a Siberian ice company ’cause the Arctic woz gunna run outta ice….. Knew I shouldna listened to that Gore fella.
…. Hmm. They reckon Ice is a good insulator ‘eh?…. Might have to go with cheap Siberian igloos instead… what with the collapse of the housing market an’ all. 😉
According to USA Today, the coldest temperature ever officially recorded in the USA was -79.8°F – rounded off to -80°F – observed at Prospect Creek Camp in the Endicott Mountains of northern Alaska on Jan. 23, 1971. The Prospect Creek Camp is along the Alaska pipeline about 20 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
The North American low of -81.4°F. was recorded at Snag in Canada’s Yukon Territory, on Feb. 3, 1947.
The lowest ever recorded in the contiguous 48 States, was -69.7°F (rounded off to -70°F) at Rogers Pass, in Lewis and Clark County, Mont., on Jan. 20, 1954.
The coldest temperature ever recorded east of the Mississippi River was -60°F in Tower, Minn., on Feb. 2, 1996.
bah, vapor pressure, no it wouldn’t condense CO2 out. My bad.
crosspatch (20:27:46) Maybe I am missing something, but if CO2 frost were included in the ice cores, wouldn’t that cause higher levels of CO2 to correlate with colder temperatures? I assume the CO2 level would be exaggerated in the core if a large portion of the verticle column of CO2 in the atmosphere precipitated at <-78.5°C.
After reading Lubos Motl’s blog on Steven Chu, the US’s next Secretary of Energy, I’m wondering how this guy ever won the Nobel Prize. Along with his boss, the next president of the US, the gods help us… the US is surrounded by idiots.
http://motls.blogspot.com/
Its cold enough in the US… See what I’ve been dealing with: http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=54001
J. Hansford quotes “They reckon Ice is a good insulator ‘eh?”. I can assure you that it is not. An igloo is built of snow; if it turns to ice, you freeze to death. I’ve lived in an igloo (actually two, had to build a new one when one started to glaze over) for a week and I do not wish to repeat the experience. I certainly do not want to have to display my snow-building skills to the younger generation but I’m afraid I may have to given Al Gore’s track record on predictions. A balmy -9C (16F) here on Vancouver Island tonight.
crosspatch (20:27:46) :
crosspatch (21:18:41) :
And I was about to say – “That’s a subtle point”. But nevermind.
Well if it was my job to read the thermometer that day I would open another bottle of vodka and then write down the temperature from last month. Hmmm, why does that sound familiar?
Denver had a low of -19F last night, breaking the old record of -6F set in 1951.
I had no idea that it got that cold in Denver!
The good news is that ski resorts are thrilled to have 3ft or more of fresh light powder snow just in time for the holidays.
The main Russian meteo address I sent at the beginning of this page (comments) are in English versions as well. So everyone will able to follow the current Yakutsk temps without translations:
http://www.hmn.ru/en/
Regards
I’ve done some rudimentary calculations, and it turns out that -60C falls under the category of ‘pretty damned cold’.
Just giving you a head’s up.
The BBC reported that Moscow itself is having a very warm December
They have still not seen serious snow which is most unusual
I left a chilly Porto Alegre yesterday, changed planes in a decidedly cold Sao Paulo (remember it’s supposed to be summer down there), and arrived home in Las Vegas to 2 inches of snow.
We have snow on the ground and a cold front moving in which comes with its own weather service advisory… Yay! Im so glad its warming up. (sarc off)
In reality turns out that the Farmer’s Almanac for this area is right on so far. Wonder how the climate models are doing:P http://www.almanac.com/weatherforecast/us/13
The appointment announcements today were sort of a bummer. Only thing that makes me happy right now is the thought that somewhere in the world its warm and a little irony, most of the states who pledged their souls to Kyoto are experiencing record cold and cold related problems (ice pwr outages, record cold temps). Who says mother nature doesnt have a sence of humor, eh?
Richard deSousa:
“… the US is surrounded by idiots.”
You mean run by idiots.
No need to be mean to our canadian and mexican neighbors.
JimB
“Denver had a low of -19F last night, breaking the old record of -6F set in 1951.”
Yes…but it’s a dry cold.
JimB
Generally, Oymyakon is said to be the coldest permanently inhabited place on the Earth. From some point of view, it is considered to be true (coldest average temperature in winter months), but the other side ofthe coin is that July can be warmer there than in Western Europe, and the annual mean temperature is ‘warmer’ than some places in Nunavut, Canada.
The word “Oymyakon” means ‘non-freezing water’ in a local language, named after a hot spring nearby. The average temperature in january for the 1951-2000 period is -46,8°c, and the lowest recorded temerature is -71,2°c. However, this data is obtained by extrapolation. The record high for Oymyakon is 38,0°c (about 101°F), so the largest temperature variation in one place (109,2°c!) is recorded there. In the early 1990’s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union the weather station is moved from Oymyakon to Tomtor, 60kms South from the original location. Tomtor is at about 750 meters above sea level, while Oymyakon is at only 670 meters.
I calulated the monthly mean temperatures by comparing T24 and (Tmin/Tmax)/2, which can be found in GHCN and GSOD dataset. I adjusted all pre-1990 data, because of the significantly higher minimum temperature readings in the new location. It seems that the relocation of the station affected Tmin better than Tmax. Annual mean temp. was estimated where some monthly values were missing.
You can download the data from here: http://gtk2007.extra.hu/FIles/ojmjakon.xlsDespite of the record low winter temperatures, Oymyakon shows warming in the recent decades on an annual basis.