This is what -53 looks like and 300,000 people actually live here.
Last night, it was -33* C. where I live — which is pretty much obscene. If you’re walking anywhere, it better take less than 10 minutes, because that’s how long it takes exposed flesh to freeze. Hahaha. I kid you not. Lol.
I sometimes wonder why the bleep I live here, but there’s no California in Canada so, no getting away from winter.Just degrees of cold to choose from.
It made me wonder what the coldest place in the world is. Not here, I know.
Yakutsk, Russia, apparently.
280 miles south of the Arctic Circle, and it’s so insanely cold, I had to share!
Don’t breathe the air!
A woman covers her mouth because it was -63C in Yakutsk’s central square. It gets colder! The coldest day on record was -90F, on Feb. 6, 1933.
(Covering your mouth with a mitten creates a pocket of warm air to breathe!)
Houses are covered in ice…
Warm air from inside the houses meets the cold air outside and freezes into puffs of ice that…
