Coldest Place In The World

rusty6

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Right here in Sask. At least I thought that is what they said on the news recently. I heard we set a new record for natural gas use in the past 24 hours and I'd believe it. We have warmed up from -35f to about -10 now but it feels worse now with the #&* SE wind that got stronger. So I'm indoors quite a bit working on video conversions again. Kind of helps to forget the cold for a while watching myself picking up oat swaths in September of 1988. We had just come through the hottest and driest summer in decades and this little patch of reclaimed swamp land was the only part of the farm that produced a decent crop.
I included this photo in the video and so far nobody has noticed that it is actually a swath of rye, not oats. I just thought it made a nicer cover photo.

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Central Mn hovered around -16 below overnight and climbed to a balmy -11. The redeeming factor is clear sky with sun and no wind. Good day for the tomcats to sleep in the south barn windows. Tomorrow they say SE wind 15-25 with 5-8? of snow.

?88 was darn dry around here. Pa had just sold the cows the season before and was feeling smart for doing so. That year I turned my Chevette into a rust nugget when it caught fire parked in a field approach where the Cat-converter set the tinder grass on fire.
 
There's a pic I've seen floating around on the web for a few years. It's of a girl in the village of Oymyakon, Siberia. There's tidbits of information here and there about this photo and the extreme weather there. Some of it is on this site. It's a pretty good read, and also fairly short article:
https://indianexpress.com/article/t...ius-oymyakon-russia-siberia-see-pics-5027206/

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As for us, temps hit -30F around daybreak this morning. Wouldn't have been so bad but there was some wind with it.
 
Just found out the coldest recorded temperature on the planet:
"[i:f311d502a6]The coldest temperature ever recorded was minus 128.6 degrees F in at the Russian research station in Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983[/i:f311d502a6]." :shock:

ACK!! Sorry boss, I ain't coming in for work today -- or ANY day until July 4th!
 
Funny when you read about the arometer blowing away one winter. The crazy people throwing boiling water into the air and it turns to instant snow and ice crystals. Both of these videos are flipping NUTS!
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It's to much of a swath for oats,and it's a 18 foot swath?? If that was oats it would be running 175 bushels per acre !
 
That minus 128 was at a official weather station.

Out in the field they have recorded minus 144 F several times.
It takes perfect conditions and is only found in small pockets of air in a dip or crack in the ice.
It is said to be the coldest it can possible get on earth because for it to get colder the perfect conditions would have to last for weeks and that is not likely.
 
(quoted from post at 17:16:57 01/16/20) It's to much of a swath for oats,and it's a 18 foot swath?? If that was oats it would be running 175 bushels per acre !
In my dreams 175 bushels per acre. And it was a 20 foot swath as I recall. Dave swathed it with the former renter's Versatile self propelled. The 510 handled it fine but I don't like to push them too hard as that is when they will start to throw out grain. If it did 100 bushels per acre that would be plenty fine by me. No fertilizer and I don't think it was sprayed for weeds either.
 
My trip to NW Iowa got cancelled this week.

We need to curtail the natural gas going to the dakota's from the south to test, they said no way.
 
Had a text from my sister-in-law.....North Western Alberta / North Eastern British Columbia Canada.....

I pulled these picks off a DOT Highway Cam in the Dawson Creek British Columbia Canada area.....

Early this morning my Sister-in-Laws out door thermometer not in the wind chill...-43 F...hit a high of -30 F...dropping to night...

We are here in Arizona for the next three months...........:)
Before I retired from a Natural Gas Pipeline career, I would see 2 billion cubic feet of processed natural gas every 24 hours pass through one of our 60,000 HP compressor stations, and clients in the USA were asking for more Gas and if we could bring on more HP.


Bob & Lois....

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That?s winter right there ! Maybe next year we?ll get lucky 45 below is the very coldest I?ve ever seen and that was after it had snowed about 2 feet it froze that snow as hard as concrete had to open the gate into the stack yard to let the cows get hay I remember working for hours trying to open the road up luckily the neighbors had a big case ih 4894 with duals and a dozer blade and he opened the road and the stack yard like it was nothing . I remember one time we were out on the desert looking around and found a pump station for natural gas and we got close enough you could here and feel that big ol motor working away you could almost count the revolutions with the vibration of the ground it was neat I would have loved to have seen inside that building. Something about pump stations and power generation turbines that Is neat to me
 

Good you have a warm spot to work on videos, hate to be out in that kind of weather. Read a book recently on Antarctica, scientist travelled around with permission to visit all the scientific research stations. I recall one place it was around -100F outside, the researchers sometimes went crazy, had to go home because they were working in close proximity in small quarters with same people every day. Going out for a walk rarely an option. Anyway, what I remembered was this place had a lot of metal surfaces and electronic equipment in the lab, and air was so dry it led to huge static electricity sparks when the scientist touched anything. Had to use a metal rod to discharge the stored electricity and still she could probably feel the juice coming through the metal.
 
No wonder 3/4 of the people that move here are from Somewhere Up Nawth.(LOL) I've been out working this week with just a sweater on.Help is on the way for you
folks Global Warming will have you growing Palm tress in a few years.
 
Nice video. You were putting that grain in a building , not a bin ? Is that your brother unloading the truck ? Thanks for showing it to us.
 
(quoted from post at 09:20:17 01/17/20) Nice video. You were putting that grain in a building , not a bin ? Is that your brother unloading the truck ? Thanks for showing it to us.
Bill, those old wooden bins are what came with the farm when my brother bought it. We used them for a while but soon upgraded to some good used steel bins. That particular bin was demolished to make room for a new straight wall shed much like I have in my yard.
 
(quoted from post at 04:49:00 01/17/20) No wonder 3/4 of the people that move here are from Somewhere Up Nawth.(LOL) I've been out working this week with just a sweater on.Help is on the way for you
folks Global Warming will have you growing Palm tress in a few years.
y brother was a plumber and pipe fitter in Prudhoe Bay for a lot of years. He lived near Anchorage Alaska, and would go there for weeks at a time to work. All year long. He is in Az now. Says he is never going back
 

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