Because you think it is cold where you are....

[Skidmore]

http://www.businessinsider.com/pictures-from-oymyakon-russia-2014-12?op=1

And there's perhaps nowhere where that's more evident than in the tiny village of Oymyakon, Russia, regarded by most at the coldest permanently inhabited place on earth.

Temperatures there average around -58° F during the winter months, with the record low reaching -96.16° F in 1924.

More pictures at site...

[misterhighwasted]

1. Coldest temp I have ever felt was 70 below zero with the wind chill factor.

That was in Bismarck, North Dakota back in the 1970's.
We all emerged from our basement apt just to see what it felt like. Any moisture in the air at all was frozen into ice crystals.
Everything was frozen.
The streets were iced over & slick as snot but that was irrelevant since no one was venturing out that night anyway.

Needless to say, we were only outside for about 15 seconds since it was difficult to breathe frozen air into your lungs.

Pretty damn cold, so I can only imagine this place in Russia being minus 96 degrees.

yikes!

[Bonobo]

8. Iowa City in 1985. -26 F, not counting wind chill.

It is like another planet at that temperature.

[roguevalley]

13. My dad drove pipe to Prudhoe when they were building the pipeline and

one night during a blizzard with wind chill it read -186 degrees, you had to let your truck run because it froze instantly. Gas would turn to jello. Coldest I ever felt was -56 without wind chill down at a lake nearby

I also remember when it rose from -40 to +40 in the space of a few hours and the change of 80 degrees was so fast and hard that bark on trees exploded. (Alaska)

[lunasun]

2. No thanks i am cold enough-at least those folks get a warm summer a few months every year

thaw out

[NaturalHigh]

3. How do locals deal with the extreme cold? "Russki chai, literally Russian tea...

which is their word for vodka."

Tough people - a hefty snort of scotch will hardly keep me going if the temperature drops below 20.

[countryjake]

4. Recommended! Awesome photos, but glad I don't have to live there.

I think I might be leery of walking underneath those power lines in that city.

Brr doesn't even cut it.

Thank you for sharing that, Skidmore. A Happy New Year to ya!

[2naSalit]

5. I, for one

can truly appreciate this. It gets -50F here sometimes... I made the mistake of not starting my vehicle yesterday - between two nights of -23F and ended up needing ta jump start because the gas jelled and my battery got too tired after three tries. After many winters with similar temps I don't think that colder than -50F you can really tell the difference. Almost anything will break like a cracker including steel at that temp.

Amazing pictures, I think I'll put some more wood in the stove...

[JI7]

6. where do you live ?

[2naSalit]

7. Heh

In the Rockies at about 7K ft. Montana side of the divide. Been cold the last couple days but not as cold as some places near by.

[JI7]

10. i talked to a woman from montana yesterday, she was in cropped pants and short sleeve top

while i was freezing while fully covered. this was in the los angeles area where i was working. we get a lot of tourists there. i can usually tell those who are from colder areas based on how they dress.

she said the weather was very comfortable for her. i think we might have been in the 60s. but she told me about how cold montana gets and to visit in the summer time when i told her i would like to go there sometime.

[2naSalit]

11. I was there

in the beginning of Nov. It was too hot for me 80s + !! I was uncomfortable, glad for AC, got home at sunset and just in time for it to get -23F overnight. What a transition over a couple days.

It does get cold but winter is beautiful, compared to the place in the OP, this is "moderate". But the sky is so blue, it's normally really clear when it's this cold, here. Summer's nice too but it gets above 70 and that's too hot.

[WhiteAndNerdy]

9. ZOMG!

That's how I look right now!

Okay, that's how I feel like I look right now.

[seveneyes]

12. Relativity

Cold isn't as much as heat is not.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. Jack Nicholson at the end of "The Shining"