how people in extremely cold places can survive? For example, Oymyakon in Siberia regularly gets below – 55°c / – 67°f, and I’m sure we’ve all seen those videos of people throwing boiling water into the air where it freezes instantly. How does blood not freeze? How are mucous membranes and eyeballs not frozen within seconds? How does anybody pee without it instantly freezing?
Obviously people live in heated housing, but how can people go outside/ pee outside without injury? I’ve wondered about this for years, and even more so when I see pictures of animals seemingly frozen in place mid-movement.
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I lived in an area that was -40C/F to -60F/-51C (with the latter numbers being extremes) every year with the -40 on multiple occasions per year. I had to go outside about four times/day to work for about an hour during these temps and one thing I noticed it was always sunny and calm. Had it been windy, it was have been unbearable.
I talked to a meteorologist and he said in our area, the extreme colds were associated with high pressure systems and as such, were not overcast or windy.
So, I’ll agree with everything the other people say and throw that high pressure tidbit in. Coldest we ever got was the -60F/-51C and that was during an extreme cold spell where it never got above -20F/-30C for two weeks. I kid you not, my mom said, “It’s time to go out and work. It’s -44, that’s warmer than yesterday!”
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