Sure, we're having the coldest Winter on record, but it could be worse...! INfact, in Russia...it's much much worse!!

Moscow: Much of Russia spent Orthodox Christmas yesterday in the grip of an Arctic cold snap that has brought the lowest temperatures in 30 years to parts of Siberia and left power services close to failure (Giles Whittell writes). A temperature of -70C, exceptional even by polar standards, was recorded last week in the Kemerovo region, 1,000 miles east of the Urals, while the industrial city of Krasnoyarsk endured its fifth consecutive day in which temperatures fell to -50C. Residents in towns along the Trans-Siberian Railway and in the Altai region to the south were urged not to go out unless absolutely necessary. In Moscow, 100 people have died, despite relatively mild weather. Such deaths are often linked to excessive drinking followed by hypothermia after a night in the snow. (And they still drink the night away and lay in the snow...?)

-- brrrrov! (kritter@adelphia.net), January 08, 2001

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Hearing this, kinda makes me realize that my complaints about the ice and cold weather I've experienced this winter are nothing in the overall picture. I must learn to keep a perspective no matter how much I am freezing my butt off.

Stay warm!

-- (Sheeple@Greener.Pastures), January 08, 2001.

BRRRR!!!

at -40, C=F, after that, it takes more F degrees/ degrees C, so -50C is about -60F and -70C is close to -95F (ICK!!!)

Are you sure those are accurate, Kritter?? Don't usually get temps that cold north of the south pole here on earth!

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), January 13, 2001.

Uh..I dunno, Tricia. I just pasted it. I can't even imagine -50. I can't even imagine a minus anything. How could anyone survive that?

Why even bother with the measurements at that point?
Anything below -10 should just be refered to as "F#$@ing COLD"

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), January 14, 2001.

Well, Kritter, speaking as one who has to survive minus degrees (both scales) on an annual basis... I totally agree!!!!

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), January 14, 2001.