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Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???

 
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"A state of emergency occurred in Bashkortostan last week. A heat pipe burst in the center of the capital of Ufa. As many as 155 facilities and more than 9,000 people found themselves in the disaster zone. School classes were canceled. It took specialists nearly 24 hours to eliminate the consequences. Another part of Ufa was left without electricity for nearly 8 hours. Five districts were left without electricity and heat in the Altai region of Russia. Nearly 8,500 people were left to the mercy of fate and extremely low temperatures. In Makhachkala, the snowfall, which began on Saturday night and did not stop until Monday, paralyzed the work of public transport.
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"27 died and 147 others were hospitalized with frostbite"



Good post OP!

This is awful....regardless of cold everywhere else...when many are dying and hospitalized...this is very important news!
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Re: Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???
shocked Holy crap!!
 Quoting: Ollo


I take my shock back...I miscalculated when I read the article. So -14F, I would have thought that wasn't that unusual for Russia?

...not that I would want to be in weather that cold, though!
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Cold is a temperature. Weather is rain/wind ect
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Re: Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???
shocked Holy crap!!
 Quoting: Ollo


I take my shock back...I miscalculated when I read the article. So -14F, I would have thought that wasn't that unusual for Russia?

...not that I would want to be in weather that cold, though!
 Quoting: Ollo


Cold is a temperature. Weather is rain/wind ect
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- 48 F.
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but Al Gore said.....


awww, fuck it
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Re: Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???
where in canada are you? you never heard of a cold snap? and -30 isn't so bad
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-30 degree Celsius = -22 degree Fahrenheit

Cold enough indeed, not counting the wind chill.

Remember reduce the electrical output in mass by turning off the nuclear reactors, and shut down coal production and use for coal powered electrical geneartors -- one wonders how good of a full public grid Russia has for natural gas fired electricity power plants?
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Re: Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???
Ummmm...it's called winter.
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December 19, 2012 – CLIMATE – ...The study found that heat waves will become more severe in most regions of the eastern United States and, that both the Northeast and Southeast will see a drastic increase in precipitation. The findings are published in Environmental Research Letters. ...“Instead of studying regions, which is not useful when examining extreme weather, dynamical downscaling allows us to study small areas such as cities with a fine resolution,” said Fu, who is also a professor within the UT-ORNL Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education (CIRE). The researchers evaluated extreme events along with daily maximum and minimum temperatures and daily precipitation. For the 23 states east of the Mississippi River, they analyzed the present-day climate from 2001 to 2004 and predicted the future climate from 2057 to 2059. This is the first study to predict heat waves for the top 20 cities in the eastern U.S. For example, Nashville will see a temperature rise of 3.21 degrees Celsius and Memphis will see a rise of 2.18 degrees Celsius. In comparing present climate to future, the researchers found that heat waves will become more severe throughout the eastern part of the nation. The Northeast and eastern Midwest will experience a greater increase in heat waves than the Southeast, which will almost equalize the temperatures between the future North and current South.

wtf do they mean by 'future north and current south'?
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Re: Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???
where in canada are you? you never heard of a cold snap? and -30 isn't so bad
 Quoting: Swinburnian


-30 degree Celsius = -22 degree Fahrenheit

Cold enough indeed, not counting the wind chill.

Remember reduce the electrical output in mass by turning off the nuclear reactors, and shut down coal production and use for coal powered electrical geneartors -- one wonders how good of a full public grid Russia has for natural gas fired electricity power plants?
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today's temps in russia: as low as -48 F
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Re: Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???
where in canada are you? you never heard of a cold snap? and -30 isn't so bad
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-30 degree Celsius = -22 degree Fahrenheit

Cold enough indeed, not counting the wind chill.

Remember reduce the electrical output in mass by turning off the nuclear reactors, and shut down coal production and use for coal powered electrical geneartors -- one wonders how good of a full public grid Russia has for natural gas fired electricity power plants?
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today's temps in russia: as low as -48 F
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[link to rt.com]

-50 C = -58 f
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12/19/2012 06:11 PM
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Re: Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???
I spent the last 2 years up in Northern Ontario, Canada where it went below -40C some nights. Awful but it fluctuates. Feel sorry for the poor/homeless who likely will die in that cold
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Re: Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???
there is also a thread that they found foxes frozen while crossing a creek. day after tomorrow comes to my mind.
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yes, just saw that a few minutes ago...

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That is from Norway last year. We also found a fish trapped similarly. As for the fox it turned out it had been killed by some hunters but fell off a cliff. Some kids later found it and dumped it like that and created the flash freeze angle. If you look closely at the photos you can see the fox has been lying on its side for a while before ending up in that position.
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We had in 1992 36 below in Ohio and everyones car battery was dead that morning
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Actually on second look there might be more cases documented there. Some of them are certainly that fox from here, but it's not as if those I clearly see are it are grouped together, so the source is more than misleading just in that context.
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Re: Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???
shocked Holy crap!!
 Quoting: Ollo


I take my shock back...I miscalculated when I read the article. So -14F, I would have thought that wasn't that unusual for Russia?

...not that I would want to be in weather that cold, though!
 Quoting: Ollo


are most of the posters on this thread fooken stupid??
the linked article is all in degrees......degrees are colder than Fahrenheit
-20c is a lot colder than -20f
BUT I repeat the article states all temps in DEGREES

tits
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7815861


Dipshit...I said I miscalculated when going from C to F...therefore I was stating that the conversion would be -14F. Admitted my mistake, now admit your comprehension mistake.
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Re: Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???
where in canada are you? you never heard of a cold snap? and -30 isn't so bad
 Quoting: Swinburnian


-30 degree Celsius = -22 degree Fahrenheit

Cold enough indeed, not counting the wind chill.

Remember reduce the electrical output in mass by turning off the nuclear reactors, and shut down coal production and use for coal powered electrical geneartors -- one wonders how good of a full public grid Russia has for natural gas fired electricity power plants?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27972246


today's temps in russia: as low as -48 F
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 30107351


[link to rt.com]

-50 C = -58 f
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 30057079


No matter how you cut it, or where you are from, anything colder than -40C is cold... and -50C is very cold!
We don't mind going out for events as long as it's warmer than -20C... anything colder than -20C is just too cold to go out in with any kind of comfort.
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Re: Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???
where in canada are you? you never heard of a cold snap? and -30 isn't so bad
 Quoting: Swinburnian


I grew up in Calgary and -30 through January For a month was nothing,,..
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Re: Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???
White river in northern Ontario by thunder bay has gotten to -55 years back,, last year in alberta Northern got down to -40 for a long time,,

i wish us here in BC would get that cold and last for a month WE NEED to get rid of the PINE beetle...
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Re: Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???
That's not that cold. I see temps as cold as -40 to -50 in the winter sometimes. -20C isn't that bad, it is only -14F. They don't even cancel grade school for those temps around here.
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Re: Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???
where in canada are you? you never heard of a cold snap? and -30 isn't so bad
 Quoting: Swinburnian



Exactly! The guys a fucken troll obviously....its minus 30 in January and February in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba every year.....dress warm and stay in doors or in your car...lol...Russa is just as cold, so I dont know what the hell the posts about...
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-26 c is -14f
I live in michigan, it's been colder here.
Sorry to ruin your doom.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29565393


thank you michigan! thought i was the only one who doesn't think it sounds like much of a cold snap,
 Quoting: Swinburnian


-26 c is -14f
I live in michigan, it's been colder here.
Sorry to ruin your doom.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29565393


-26 c is -14f
I live in michigan, it's been colder here.
Sorry to ruin your doom.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 29565393


That's vodka on the rocks where I come from, waiter, bring me another olive!
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12/19/2012 07:27 PM
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Re: Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???
You must live in Victoria BC. This is not a big deal. It is just early winter in Russia.
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Sounds like the movie The Day After Tomorrow...
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Re: Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???
where in canada are you? you never heard of a cold snap? and -30 isn't so bad
 Quoting: Swinburnian



Exactly! The guys a fucken troll obviously....its minus 30 in January and February in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba every year.....dress warm and stay in doors or in your car...lol...Russa is just as cold, so I dont know what the hell the posts about...
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 30362093


Actually, there are some short-term weather predictions for Siberia and Northern China to match all-time lows this week, -50 (F) or below. Coldest snap since Putin took office in 2001, when there was a similar event.

We'll see how it plays out. Hope it's a false alarm and everything stays in normal range. Still, with the power outages it's going to be very difficult for people. They have community utilities, so if the city power goes out all the homes go cold. That happened in 2001 and has started this week as well.

I remember hearing of folks with homes at -15(F) inside their homes...in 2001.
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Look up Ojmjakon. It's cold in Russia/Siberia. Nothing new. It's not like people are walking around in tshirts and shorts and suddenly the temp drops to -42... Doomtards.
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Oh, in Ojmjakon it was -71.6 or something like that. Coldest place on earth.
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Re: Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???
shocked Holy crap!!
 Quoting: Ollo


I take my shock back...I miscalculated when I read the article. So -14F, I would have thought that wasn't that unusual for Russia?

...not that I would want to be in weather that cold, though!
 Quoting: Ollo


are most of the posters on this thread fooken stupid??
the linked article is all in degrees......degrees are colder than Fahrenheit
-20c is a lot colder than -20f
BUT I repeat the article states all temps in DEGREES

tits
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7815861

You don't get it
Degrees c. Or degrees f

0 degrees c is 32 degrees f.
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ah ha now you have got it right.......
so if the above statement is correct, how the hell can your statement above that one also be correct?
you said: 'so -20 F is colder than -20 C' which is incorrect....
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7815861


because -4 is warmer than -20
jesus christ -- draw yourself a number line or something
 Quoting: Swinburnian


right I am getting pissed off now. You made a big mistake and you are trying to wriggle out of it. This will be the last post on this matter.

you said in this post: Thread: Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on??? (Page 2)

'so -20 F is colder than -20 C' you said 'colder'......-20 F is warmer than -20 C

then when you realised your mistake you correctly changed your answer and put the correct one.

now fook off
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 7815861


well, no
not trying to wriggle out of anything

-20 F is colder than -20 C by 9 degrees C, to be precise.
 Quoting: Swinburnian


I loved this argument... Go Canada!!!

Here's one... -40c = -40f
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Re: Flash freeze in Russia!!! WTF is going on???
where in canada are you? you never heard of a cold snap? and -30 isn't so bad
 Quoting: Swinburnian


LOL -30 is for beginners!!! Very surprised our Russian comrades wouldn't be able to take a mere -30 O_o

Come January, here -35, -40's the norm. With shitstorms or freezing rain.

Of course, if you're homeless, you'll need to find shelter. Which is abundant here.
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we've gotten down to -70 with
the windchill
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dreamed about this on sunday...... vortex generated.





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