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Old 11-22-2012, 11:33 PM
 
Location: Finland
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The annual mean of -2.4C is a good argument for Ulan Bator...

But the most interesting question for me would be why anyone visits Yakutsk in winter. What is there, oil?
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Old 12-13-2012, 12:13 PM
 
Location: Calgary,Alberta
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Decent article here, and I dunno why reykjavik keeps being mentioned, just because it dosent get very warm in the summer dosent mean its "cold" lol.

The worst places in Canada for winter - thestar.com
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Old 12-14-2012, 11:32 PM
 
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Ottawa Canada is North America's coldest capital.
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Old 12-15-2012, 12:32 AM
 
Location: Upper West Side, Manhattan, NYC
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Decent article here, and I dunno why reykjavik keeps being mentioned, just because it dosent get very warm in the summer dosent mean its "cold" lol.

The worst places in Canada for winter - thestar.com
Yeah, that's like Nuuk, Greenland. People think because it's so north it must be way below zero during the winter. The average coldest month there is 23 degrees F, which is around the same temp as the coldest Minneapolis in the USA gets. The difference of course is that Nuuk's average summer temp is around 50 degrees F while Minneapolis is in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. But yeah, it doesn't get truly COLD like some of the cities in Russia do.
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Old 12-15-2012, 12:36 AM
 
Location: Upper West Side, Manhattan, NYC
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But the most interesting question for me would be why anyone visits Yakutsk in winter. What is there, oil?
If there's not much wind there I'd do it. I grew up in Minnesota which experiences wind chills and sometimes temps just as cold as Yakutsk (not on average though, but sometimes especially during an Alberta Clipper period in the morning or night). I see the average winter temp is around -30 F..I could deal with that in minimal wind, but I remember in the 90s in Minnesota we had a few days of -75 F wind chills and that was pretty brutal and that's putting it lightly.
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Old 12-15-2012, 07:25 PM
 
Location: The western periphery of Terra Australis
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Yeah, that's like Nuuk, Greenland. People think because it's so north it must be way below zero during the winter. The average coldest month there is 23 degrees F, which is around the same temp as the coldest Minneapolis in the USA gets. The difference of course is that Nuuk's average summer temp is around 50 degrees F while Minneapolis is in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. But yeah, it doesn't get truly COLD like some of the cities in Russia do.
It still has the potential to get very cold, but yeah the Gulf stream is very powerful. Aberdeen, Scotland, lies at a similar latitude to northern Quebec yet has winters nights more similar to Virginia Beach!
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Old 12-15-2012, 07:43 PM
 
Location: State of Transition
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Has anyone mentioned Yakutsk, Russia? -50 in a good winter. -60 isn't unheard of. Population: 300,000, give or take.
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Old 12-15-2012, 07:57 PM
 
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Has anyone mentioned Yakutsk, Russia? -50 in a good winter. -60 isn't unheard of. Population: 300,000, give or take.
Few people would consider it a 'big' city.

For cities over 5 million, my nomination would be Harbin, China. A bone chilling -19C or so in winter, similar to Winnipeg.
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Old 12-15-2012, 08:36 PM
 
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But the most interesting question for me would be why anyone visits Yakutsk in winter. What is there, oil?
What does reasons for visiting have to do with the OP?
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Old 12-15-2012, 08:47 PM
 
Location: State Fire and Ice
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Few people would consider it a 'big' city.

For cities over 5 million, my nomination would be Harbin, China. A bone chilling -19C or so in winter, similar to Winnipeg.
-19 Is an ordinary temperature. Not cold. In Novosibirsk colder.
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