Comments on: The Coldest Places on Earth

By: smriti

smriti — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:31:53 +0000

hi..i’m frm new delhi india and the coldest it everr goes is 2C (36F)..and that is in the early hours of morning so v never face it..th lowest we get to know is perhaps 8-10C (46-50F)..n i thot i’d die if it got any colder than dat..bt m sure i knw heat much better..wid 49C (120F) it gets REAL hot..

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:55:40 +0000

At Mount Denali in Alaska you can find some of the coldest wind chill numbers.
A normal temperature there is -50f at 18k feet near Denali Pass and, factoring in the jet stream, altitude and extreme latitude, and the venturi effect of the pass itself, you regularly get winds in excess of 200mph, which at -50f would give a wind chill of -350f. At this wind chill any exposed skin would freeze and die nearly instantly and several climbers caught in these conditions have been found flash frozen in mid-stride…
something to think about.

By: Bert

Bert — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:56:00 +0000

More props for Winterpeg. The name ain’t for nothing – I’ve heard we hold the title of coldest city on Earth with a population above a half-million people.

Even when it’s warm it gets crazy – last week there was enough freezing rain that people were skating down streets and highways.

By: Wolffy

Wolffy — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:39:00 +0000

OK cold it is going to be a balmy 7deg F right now but the cold blast is coming the rest of the week it is not going to make it above the neg numbers. thats right it is not going to be above 0 deg in Biwabik minnesota next week. To spare you from lookin it up were about 50 miles straight north of Duluth MN we are only 15 miles from the Famous town of Embarass MN who think they are real cold.

By: Samamtha

Samamtha — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:59:00 +0000

Wow It is freezing. lol. I was born in Minnesota but moved to California. Sure, Minnesota is freezing at there. I has a pnumondia when i was in first grade, cuz of that frezzing weather. It got so bad. But it went away. My mom’s Aunt lived in Russia and it is below 10 F. She also had a cancer. I’m still cold in California but warm in my house. Lol!!! ;D

By: Icydear

Icydear — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:46:00 +0000

Haha, I live in Fairbanks AK, and I love it, minus the fact of standing up at the bus stop at -40. -_- Oh well, thank goodness for jackets! :D
Although it’s only about -35 right now, strangely warm for late December.

By: Alaska Girl 4ever

Alaska Girl 4ever — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:49:00 +0000

I live in Fairbanks Alaska and it ROCKS!!! It will get to -50 or -60 soon. It cracks me up when down in the lower 48, schools and roads shut down because of snow. Here, children wait by the side of road at -30 or colder for the school bus. I would never want to live anyone else. We Alaskans are heart people. Oh and by the way, even at those temps, people are still out shopping and carrying on with their lives. You just put on a jacket!

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:45:00 +0000

Damn, I’m cold just reading about these places.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:41:00 +0000

Here in Cape Town South Africa the temperature ranges from 4 – 35 Celcius, so to experience some sort of cold a lot of Capetonians will go to the second coldest place(Record -15C) in south africa, Sutherland(Observatory).We went there in 2006 and experienced -11 deg C and that was really an incredible experience. It was freek’n cold. There is also no snow in Cape Town except a visible show on very high mountain peaks. I am 45 and like other Capetonians have never felt snow so to read about -65 and seeing all the snow around sounds like an off the planet story. I think Yakutsk should be placed on my bucket list! LOL!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:31:00 +0000

I live in Minnesota (not in International Falls) but it can be 95 and humid in the summer and get -20 in the winter. That’s over 110 degrees difference in temperature throughout the year. Does anywhere else on earth that gets that cold get that warm too? I think the midwestern people have very special skin to stand both the heat and the cold!