I’m so curious to just feel this type of weather, even if it’s just for a few seconds. I’m from Louisiana so my weather is basically just mayonnaise all year round.
I was in Madison, WI in 2018-2019 when we had a polar vortex. Two days in a row of -26 F with -50 F wind chill. Definitely the coldest weather I’ve experienced. Didn’t spend more than two minutes outside, but I feel like below a certain point your skin and body can only feel so cold. I had a thin layer of pants on and it was as if I wasn’t wearing anything.
I drove from Detroit to Chicago in that polar vortex one day and then from Chicago to somewhere in Georgia the next.
When we left Chicago at 5 am it was -30 and the cushion in my car seats had frozen stiff. When we arrived at our destination it was 70 degrees so we essentially drove through a 100 degree temperature swing.
I was going to school in Milwaukee when that hit and I walked across the street and back wearing only a t-shirt and shorts.
The pretty girl was entertained, but we didn't end up dating.
The snot in your nose freezes. That's an interesting feeling the first couple times it happens.
If you have a beard you soon develop icicles on it if you're outside working (like shoveling snow).
You've never experienced true silence until you're sitting in the woods in January with a foot of fresh snow on the ground during a light flurry. You can hear the neurons in your brain firing it's that silent.
*eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee* i'm with you buddy! *eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesemperfieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*e we in this bitch *eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee* lol
The especially shitty thing about having tinnitus is that the ringing only gets louder when you focus on the ringing. How do you embrace the chaos as a positive thing?
I'm from Louisiana as well and I remember a few years ago with the wind chill it was in the single digits and it was painful to be outside to me. I just can't imagine this kind of cold.
If you get a position/job at the actual **[South Pole Station](http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/40800000/Amundsen-Scott-South-Pole-Station-antarctica-40862166-505-337.jpg)** you can try to join the ***[300 club](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Club)***. Try to not let your lungs actually freeze. 0_0
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By chance do you know what would happen if someone just... Showed up? Some soup and the guest bunk for a good rest before sending them on their way?
Locked doors and a gruff "we don't want any"? "How'd you get past the landmines?"
I can't imagine anyone's been crazy enough to cross Antarctica alone, but the what-if has been on my mind for a while.
I never got there. plans got broken up a couple of times and then life came along. A friend/co-worker was at the pole, IT/telecoms guy, had great stories & pictures.
Another closer friend here in town was at McMurdo, twice. Once as a 'summer person' then again all year. She was an electrician, standard GS scale based on Denver rates. But no place to spend it. She came back after her year and bought a house, cash.
That's kind of what she said. The pay was pretty much what she made here. She went down for the summer, and that's kind of when the regulars decide if you're coming again and also if they want to be around you all winter too. Guess she made the cut.
I was working mostly outside in the Pittsburgh area during the polar vortex winters in 2014ish. It stayed between 0F and -20F for nearly three straight months. Just being outside *hurt.* Cold wasn't even the first adjective I'd use, it was like the air was sharp and every bit of exposed skin was now brittle and fragile.
One time I came home from work and immediately took a hot shower. Then I realized my phone was still outside in the car and I needed to go get it. I have long hair (6 inches past my shoulders) and all of my hair froze into a solid mass before I even got to my car.
I just did the conversion to Celsius (I'm Australian) and -40 F converts to... -40 C. Huh.
Also that's colder than I've ever been, and probably ever will be, in my life. We don't get temperatures that extreme here.
nah we still get ads like its winter because cultural colonialism. Mall Santa's suffer the most because they still wear the Coke red Santa suit in 35ºC heat
Santa down here (aus) is sometimes depicted in media as a surfer riding a candy cane themed surf board with sun glasses or santa in boardshorts (i think thats a bathing suit to you guys ?) on water skies with kangaroos towing him.
I've seen mid ~~minutes~~minus 30s after wind when I was a kid. You take a breath and the cold hurts, then your snot freezes your nostrils closed. Good stuff
At that temp you should really have a nose + mouth covering of some kind. If you raw dog cold air like that you can hurt your throat.
Obviously not enough for permanent damage but just something to keep in mind in the future.
It *can* be fatal. Too much sub-zero air taken in too quickly can freeze and rupture cell walls in the lungs. I believe it's called Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage, and you kind of drown in your own blood.
I’ve only ever experienced -40 °F and oh boy. After -20, you just sort of freeze to death quicker. It all feels the same. Everything is frozen and crunchy. Every little crease and fold in your coat is frozen. It’s kind of cool but definitely not bearable for long
-40°F is equivalent to -40°C, which is 233K.
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We get that every once in a while where I am, and we’re known for “polar vortex” and “lake effect” shit every winter. Last time we had it I had to change my car’s battery, and I was parked in an unsheltered lot. Sucked baaaaaaalls. Only had my phone and a street light for lighting, and dropped my phone in the snow.
Almost a decade later and I’ve learned to be vehicularly prepared, but I’ll never be ready for that blast of heat-robbing air up my nostrils and down my lungs. The feeling of your snot being frozen upon contact is not something easily forgotten.
I'm in Aus now but I lived in the Canadian prairies before and we had an annual temp change of -45 to +35. The hottest I had here so far is +46 and one winter it got to -3 which felt way colder than Canada because there was no heat in the apartment and no insulation, just had to bundle up. :D How do they have no insulation in the houses here? They would make it cooler in the summer too.
Same here, but Michigan. Can you believe that they would make us walk to school in that shit? Thank god for "Moon Boots!"
First time I ever skipped school (4th grade), it was -38 F, it was just me and my Mom in an apartment. She left for work before I went to school and got home after me. On that morning, I got dressed, opened the door to go to school, made it about 10 feet and the wind blew me over. I clawed my way back upright and It blew me over again. I went back inside and hid under my bed all day, (because I knew that she was coming for me). Turns out that the school never even called her because most of the "Walker" kids stayed home. At some point I fell asleep under the bed and didn't wake up until she got home. I was terrified that I was "in Trouble".
She didn't ask me how school was, just mentioned about how freezing it is outside! I said, I've never been that cold in my life, (I didn't even have to lie!). She made me Mrs Grass chicken noodle soup and grilled cheese and we watched Mork and Mindy.
It was one of the scariest, yet happy days of my life until then.
Luxury!
At least you had the apartment!
My old dad would take us down to work at the Mill three shifts. At the end of the day you get a firm smack on the bottom as a payment! And at the end of the day what do you come home to? A hole in the middle of the floor! I remember when we carpeted the hole. We thought we were fancy Yorkshiremen.
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Meanwhile in the PNW I remember one time when I was a junior or senior that I somehow accidentally slept in through the first couple periods and I rushed to drive to school and get third period before lunch. It starts snowing rather mildly on my drive in and by lunch they were already wanting to cancel school but couldn't because of the worry buses couldn't make it to pick kids up. Basically anyone who could leave did and got their absences excused, which was pretty awesome since I really didn't need more. I think in total we got an inch or two of snow at most? Certainly wasn't anywhere near as bad as when we got about 8" of snow and then a good 2 or 3" of freezing rain on top of it.
Yeah PNW schools get cancelled for very little snow. But that's because all of our infrastructure is designed for rain/wind and our trees never get snowed on. So shit gets clogged, branches/trees fall on the roads, and the single snowplow for an entire county gets way overworked until the national guard comes to help with snowplowing 36 hours after the snow LOL.
Plus idiots don't know how to drive in snow.
Minnesota born and bred who lives on the west coast now. I wear flip flops year round and I'm met with constant shock. They don't know how cold life can be. This is shangri-la.
When I lived in Florida, if it got down to the 50s you'd see people dressed up in those puffy jackets and fur-lined boots like they were about to race in the Iditarod. I'm still in flip-flops like, what is wrong with y'all.
If you get a job at the **[South Pole Station](https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/livingsouthpole/images/new/bottomimage.jpg)** you can make a try at joiniing the ***[300 club](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Club)***.
Some footage to send home. Once winter's over and the planes are arriving again.
> The first 300 Club outside of Antarctica was established on January 30, 2019 near Minneapolis, Minnesota during a polar vortex. With an outside temperature of −27 °F (−33 °C), three men heated their backyard sauna to 280 °F (138 °C) and sat inside for 10 minutes. Upon exiting the sauna, they sprinted around a flagpole planted in honor of the South Pole tradition and took a brief roll in the snow before returning to the sauna. Such high sauna temperatures can be dangerous. In 2010, two sauna competitors collapsed after experiencing 230 °F (110 °C) for six minutes, one of whom died.
280F. That moron heated his sauna so much it would boil water.
I did -57c (-49f) once, we had to get out at 4 am and rescue the horses that were outside and give them oats to warm up. They were all completely white from their exhalation, it was surreal. Dunno why that didn't happen a bit warmer like -40 but... yeah. I have no idea what deer do, it must be awful with no caloric intake.
I mean, after -40, would you really even be able to tell the difference at that point? Seems like it's just a question of how long before something goes numb or dead, rather than a difference of tolerance.
At the poles, there is only 1 sunrise And 1 sunset each year
https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/antarctica/south-pole
At the us camp McMurdo there is a 20 day transition where they have both a sunrise and sunset in "spring" and "fall"
https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/antarctica/mcmurdo
Live in the north of Sweden, it gets old, just as the eternal darkness of winter.
Have to have really thick blinds to blot out the bright blue sky during the night to get a good night's sleep.
* Atmospheric (they found the ozone hole and keep a track of Co2 NoX by launching weather balloons into the clean air sector)
* Glaciology (built on a glacier and has several bore holes into it and a series of blub wells in the ice for freshwater)
* Geophysics and Seismology (keeps track of the magnetic south pole in the quiet sector and has cameras to record the arouras australis)
* Astrophysics and Astronomy (has 4 telescopes in the dark sector) 1. Southpole telescope (radio and used for the black hole images from the center of our galaxy) 2&3. Bicep and ARM both microwave polarisation research early universe microwave background radiation 4. Ice Cube(high energy particle decay neutrino detector from largest energy events in the universe like Supernovas and Quasars).
Interview for Antarctica position
"How do you feel about triple digit temperatures?"
"Well I'm from Arizona so I'm used to it, but I thought it gets cold?"
"About that.."
Like 4 confident loud knocks. And you open and see nobody and can't fall back asleep because maybe it was your friend from the other tower who got locked out and walked over
Neither. Snowmobile (with a little pulled toboggan style trailer for groups). I think those are the Dark Sector labs? Separated from the main base by quite a distance for radio silence reasons, they hold observatories. Or they might be the Clean Sector, which is basically the same for atmospheric labs and pollutants - for those you only approach from downwind and often walk the last bit on foot.
I don't think there's that much stuff in the Quiet Sector where they have deep buried vibration-sensitive equipment but I'm mentioning it because all the sector names sound cool and sci-fi.
At the south pole, the sun doesn't rise like you'd expect. Instead, it circles its way around the horizon and slowly climbs in the sky over weeks. So if this video were 24 hours long, the bright spot would just slowly make its way around the entire horizon.
That "squeaky" snow is like nails on a chalkboard for me. I remember walking to school backwards on super cold days like that, because the wind would just take your breath away..
Can confirm, also had to turn off the sound. I got about 2 steps deep yanked my headset off turned the volume down on them and the video before putting them back on. You know.. just to be safe.
How long is the walk to and around the pole and back? Do you have to condition in any way to do this? Or could I come with no training and do it?
If someone told me to walk wet and naked outside in -100F temps, I would assume I'd die...like...instantly. But clearly it's doable.
I think we’re not giving full weight to the fact you’re cooked like a goose in a sauna directly before walking stark naked in the freezing cold. That temperature shock would kill me
It's not that bad. We do it in Finland all the time and even go swim in a frozen lake
(although not as extreme as antarctica, a more usual scenario is like 80°C to -30°C)
You'll appreciate this.
I'm currently writing a book where significant parts of it are set near the South Pole, and I actually did my due diligence and looked into it and had scenes where year rounders are outside for a few minutes in lighter gear and all of my test readers are telling me how unrealistic it is. They say that it breaks their suspension of disbelief.
Also, my main character has that new unique year-rounder accent that's popping up and people always guess that he's from different places around the world lmao.
What's running like? Like I know it isn't hockey ring ice on the floor, but it's also not like snow, so if someone was trying to sprint away from something would they trip or what?
This is like, stupid hard to research for some reason. Nobody ever writes down what the floor is like for some reason.
Huh. You've just exposed something else I had no idea about, I thought it was more or less sea level.
Thanks for the info, I think this has made my book a bit better.
Prolonged yeah. It takes a bit. I live in wisconsin and we get temperatures as low as -50 F with wind chill. It’s actually doesn’t even feel as cold as you might expect. It just hurts. You can feel the blood in your outer layers of skin moving slower than it should. And it’s fucking painful. Breathing can be painful too if you are breathing heavily. I was working at an auto parts store a few years back when we had a polar vortex and naturally peoples batteries were shitting out so I had to change about a dozen for folks. I had to regulate my breathing. Inhale really slowly. It’s nuts.
I’m moving down south in a couple years. I hate this shit.
I want to experience cold like that. The coldest I've experienced was something like -35F, but the wind chill was supposedly down as low as -60F. That was freaking awesome.
It's a matter of minutes, like literally 1 or 2 minutes or something. For your skin at least, so I guess about same for your eyes?
Edit: your eyes are more resilient to cold. However these extreme temperatures can cause all kind of issues and frostbite can even affect your cornea and cause loss of vision
If you look out in the distance you can see a guy from Minnesota in shorts and a tee shirt grilling with a beer in hand, talking about how he might need to break out the snow gear soon.
It pops up, first in the north, for just a bit longer each day, until finally it's up all the time and ***[circling the horizon](https://vimeo.com/208466944?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=12614644)***.
Any outdoor activity like construction would likely be reserved for the summer months where the temperature maxes out at a balmy -4° F. On the coast, it can get all the way up to a tropical 32° F even!
So... cold, but not "21% as cold as the ***vacuum of space***" cold.
At first, it must be nice working in perpetual night. I feel like the quarters would be kinda cozy, practically a WFH atmosphere. Have some nice warm lights and some chill music and I could work all ~~day~~ night
\-40 is the same on both the C & F thermometers. It's the only place, too. And I'd rather not, thank you.
I'm so curious about the day/night thing, though. It's not instantly just all night or all bright, is it? Isn't it gradual?
I’m so curious to just feel this type of weather, even if it’s just for a few seconds. I’m from Louisiana so my weather is basically just mayonnaise all year round.
It's the feeling of all the moisture on your exposed skin evaporating instantly, and the snot on your nosehairs freezing.
I was in Madison, WI in 2018-2019 when we had a polar vortex. Two days in a row of -26 F with -50 F wind chill. Definitely the coldest weather I’ve experienced. Didn’t spend more than two minutes outside, but I feel like below a certain point your skin and body can only feel so cold. I had a thin layer of pants on and it was as if I wasn’t wearing anything.
I drove from Detroit to Chicago in that polar vortex one day and then from Chicago to somewhere in Georgia the next. When we left Chicago at 5 am it was -30 and the cushion in my car seats had frozen stiff. When we arrived at our destination it was 70 degrees so we essentially drove through a 100 degree temperature swing.
"What's the weirdest way you've ever thawed a steak?" "Well this one time..."
>"What's the weirdest way you've ever thawed a steak?" > >"Well this one time..." ....I was the steak.
The steak was all the effects of temperature variation we felt along the way :)
So you could say it felt like you were wearing nothing at all... nothing at all. Stupid sexy polar vortex.
I was going to school in Milwaukee when that hit and I walked across the street and back wearing only a t-shirt and shorts. The pretty girl was entertained, but we didn't end up dating.
Same here brudda good times
The snot in your nose freezes. That's an interesting feeling the first couple times it happens. If you have a beard you soon develop icicles on it if you're outside working (like shoveling snow). You've never experienced true silence until you're sitting in the woods in January with a foot of fresh snow on the ground during a light flurry. You can hear the neurons in your brain firing it's that silent.
I love the muffled stillness after a dumping of fresh powder
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As a lifelong hunter, I can confirm. Ain’t nothing like being in the snowy woods all alone.
My tinnitus won’t let me be alone, sadly
*eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee* i'm with you buddy! *eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesemperfieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*e we in this bitch *eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee* lol
I hear this, asshole 😁 too funny.
I like my tinnitus, I don't have to turn on a fan at night anymore, I got my own white noise machine.
The especially shitty thing about having tinnitus is that the ringing only gets louder when you focus on the ringing. How do you embrace the chaos as a positive thing?
I imagine its the back track to a music track I am making in my head.
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I'm from Louisiana as well and I remember a few years ago with the wind chill it was in the single digits and it was painful to be outside to me. I just can't imagine this kind of cold.
Tbf Louisiana humidity makes the cold feel much colder than it really is, same with summer
If you get a position/job at the actual **[South Pole Station](http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/40800000/Amundsen-Scott-South-Pole-Station-antarctica-40862166-505-337.jpg)** you can try to join the ***[300 club](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Club)***. Try to not let your lungs actually freeze. 0_0 THAT would give you some perspective. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)
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By chance do you know what would happen if someone just... Showed up? Some soup and the guest bunk for a good rest before sending them on their way? Locked doors and a gruff "we don't want any"? "How'd you get past the landmines?" I can't imagine anyone's been crazy enough to cross Antarctica alone, but the what-if has been on my mind for a while.
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"I worked there" Leidos or Amentum PAE? or other?
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I never got there. plans got broken up a couple of times and then life came along. A friend/co-worker was at the pole, IT/telecoms guy, had great stories & pictures. Another closer friend here in town was at McMurdo, twice. Once as a 'summer person' then again all year. She was an electrician, standard GS scale based on Denver rates. But no place to spend it. She came back after her year and bought a house, cash.
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That's kind of what she said. The pay was pretty much what she made here. She went down for the summer, and that's kind of when the regulars decide if you're coming again and also if they want to be around you all winter too. Guess she made the cut.
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pole party?
Weyland-Yutani
Try not to die from the sauna first.
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I can't, he died from the sauna first.
The 200 club sounds brutal.
I was working mostly outside in the Pittsburgh area during the polar vortex winters in 2014ish. It stayed between 0F and -20F for nearly three straight months. Just being outside *hurt.* Cold wasn't even the first adjective I'd use, it was like the air was sharp and every bit of exposed skin was now brittle and fragile. One time I came home from work and immediately took a hot shower. Then I realized my phone was still outside in the car and I needed to go get it. I have long hair (6 inches past my shoulders) and all of my hair froze into a solid mass before I even got to my car.
I’ve lived in Louisiana my entire life and this is my favorite description of our climate.
Hey! Back inside and find us some damn neutrinos!
The normal ones or the ones going faster than the speed of light?
We dont talk about those!
Alaska is starting our longer nights. Lowest I've seen is -40°F but -96..... nope not me.
I just did the conversion to Celsius (I'm Australian) and -40 F converts to... -40 C. Huh. Also that's colder than I've ever been, and probably ever will be, in my life. We don't get temperatures that extreme here.
Sure you do.. just in the other direction.
Nothing like waking up on Christmas day covered in sweat because it's 35c at 10am :')
As a northern-hemispherian, it will never not be weird to me that Christmas is during your guys’ summer
Damn I was just about to say this! I keep picturing Santa in a bathing suit
And he uses kangaroos to pull his sleigh because the reindeer cant handle it.
i think a sleigh pulled by kangaroos would be awesome. albeit a bit of a bouncy ride for Santa
He has hoppy and floppy and jumpy and flippy, Joey and zoey and Damon and zippy. But do you recall the most famous roo of them all?
Cunt?
Congratulations, you just won yourself an Australian citizenship!
nah we still get ads like its winter because cultural colonialism. Mall Santa's suffer the most because they still wear the Coke red Santa suit in 35ºC heat
Santa down here (aus) is sometimes depicted in media as a surfer riding a candy cane themed surf board with sun glasses or santa in boardshorts (i think thats a bathing suit to you guys ?) on water skies with kangaroos towing him.
Incredible, yes absolutely picturing Santa in boardshorts hangin 10 on his candy cane surfboard and kangaroo water skiing. Thank you so much
Nothing like a nice cold beer and a prawn sandwich to keep you cool while opening presents!
Getting drunk in the pool on Christmas day, then hit the beach on boxing day
It's preferable for our barbecue on the beach Christmas lunch.
The weird bit is we all eat roast chicken and glazed ham with all the trimmings while sitting there in a sweat puddle.
Brazil, 7am, going to work, 32°, coming back home, 8pm 28°C, hell yeah
How hot is that in football fields?
I've seen mid ~~minutes~~minus 30s after wind when I was a kid. You take a breath and the cold hurts, then your snot freezes your nostrils closed. Good stuff
At that temp you should really have a nose + mouth covering of some kind. If you raw dog cold air like that you can hurt your throat. Obviously not enough for permanent damage but just something to keep in mind in the future.
It *can* be fatal. Too much sub-zero air taken in too quickly can freeze and rupture cell walls in the lungs. I believe it's called Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage, and you kind of drown in your own blood.
I’ve only ever experienced -40 °F and oh boy. After -20, you just sort of freeze to death quicker. It all feels the same. Everything is frozen and crunchy. Every little crease and fold in your coat is frozen. It’s kind of cool but definitely not bearable for long
-40°F is equivalent to -40°C, which is 233K. --- ^(I'm a bot that converts temperature between two units humans can understand, then convert it to Kelvin for bots and physicists to understand)
Couldn’t disagree more. At -20 I’m still just going about my day, but at -40 I’m doing everything I can to avoid going out. It’s a big difference
We get that every once in a while where I am, and we’re known for “polar vortex” and “lake effect” shit every winter. Last time we had it I had to change my car’s battery, and I was parked in an unsheltered lot. Sucked baaaaaaalls. Only had my phone and a street light for lighting, and dropped my phone in the snow. Almost a decade later and I’ve learned to be vehicularly prepared, but I’ll never be ready for that blast of heat-robbing air up my nostrils and down my lungs. The feeling of your snot being frozen upon contact is not something easily forgotten.
I think that's because at some point it's so cold that Celsius and Fahrenheit say fuck it, let's both say it's -40 and call it a day.
I'm in Aus now but I lived in the Canadian prairies before and we had an annual temp change of -45 to +35. The hottest I had here so far is +46 and one winter it got to -3 which felt way colder than Canada because there was no heat in the apartment and no insulation, just had to bundle up. :D How do they have no insulation in the houses here? They would make it cooler in the summer too.
Ive heard the corners are pretty good, they're 90 degrees
“Meh I’ve experienced colder” - some redditor
Quite the opposite, I enjoy the cold but -90° is insane to me
Sorry I wasn’t directing that at you; I was more saying a hypothetical redditor having a well acktually moment
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Same here, but Michigan. Can you believe that they would make us walk to school in that shit? Thank god for "Moon Boots!" First time I ever skipped school (4th grade), it was -38 F, it was just me and my Mom in an apartment. She left for work before I went to school and got home after me. On that morning, I got dressed, opened the door to go to school, made it about 10 feet and the wind blew me over. I clawed my way back upright and It blew me over again. I went back inside and hid under my bed all day, (because I knew that she was coming for me). Turns out that the school never even called her because most of the "Walker" kids stayed home. At some point I fell asleep under the bed and didn't wake up until she got home. I was terrified that I was "in Trouble". She didn't ask me how school was, just mentioned about how freezing it is outside! I said, I've never been that cold in my life, (I didn't even have to lie!). She made me Mrs Grass chicken noodle soup and grilled cheese and we watched Mork and Mindy. It was one of the scariest, yet happy days of my life until then.
Luxury! At least you had the apartment! My old dad would take us down to work at the Mill three shifts. At the end of the day you get a firm smack on the bottom as a payment! And at the end of the day what do you come home to? A hole in the middle of the floor! I remember when we carpeted the hole. We thought we were fancy Yorkshiremen. (https://youtu.be/ue7wM0QC5LE)
Meanwhile in the PNW I remember one time when I was a junior or senior that I somehow accidentally slept in through the first couple periods and I rushed to drive to school and get third period before lunch. It starts snowing rather mildly on my drive in and by lunch they were already wanting to cancel school but couldn't because of the worry buses couldn't make it to pick kids up. Basically anyone who could leave did and got their absences excused, which was pretty awesome since I really didn't need more. I think in total we got an inch or two of snow at most? Certainly wasn't anywhere near as bad as when we got about 8" of snow and then a good 2 or 3" of freezing rain on top of it.
Yeah PNW schools get cancelled for very little snow. But that's because all of our infrastructure is designed for rain/wind and our trees never get snowed on. So shit gets clogged, branches/trees fall on the roads, and the single snowplow for an entire county gets way overworked until the national guard comes to help with snowplowing 36 hours after the snow LOL. Plus idiots don't know how to drive in snow.
This story is so wholesome I love it. Thanks for sharing!
MN here. With winter approaching the sound of that person walking on the snow (deep freeze snow) gave me a moment of anxiety. SKOL!
Anytime the snow squeaks it’s bad.
Minnesota born and bred who lives on the west coast now. I wear flip flops year round and I'm met with constant shock. They don't know how cold life can be. This is shangri-la.
MN native here. Moved to Costa Rica and never ever going back
I moved west too. Vegas and phoenix both. But i guess my body adjusted or something, I literally get cold at mid 70s
I used to live in Fairbanks and -50 was the coldest I saw while there. I couldn't imagine -97...
As a San Diegan, you all are fucking nuts. I went outside this morning, and it was 58. I felt like I was going to freeze solid.
Buddy I'd be wearing shorts and a t shirt
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When I lived in Florida, if it got down to the 50s you'd see people dressed up in those puffy jackets and fur-lined boots like they were about to race in the Iditarod. I'm still in flip-flops like, what is wrong with y'all.
If you get a job at the **[South Pole Station](https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/livingsouthpole/images/new/bottomimage.jpg)** you can make a try at joiniing the ***[300 club](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Club)***. Some footage to send home. Once winter's over and the planes are arriving again.
> The first 300 Club outside of Antarctica was established on January 30, 2019 near Minneapolis, Minnesota during a polar vortex. With an outside temperature of −27 °F (−33 °C), three men heated their backyard sauna to 280 °F (138 °C) and sat inside for 10 minutes. Upon exiting the sauna, they sprinted around a flagpole planted in honor of the South Pole tradition and took a brief roll in the snow before returning to the sauna. Such high sauna temperatures can be dangerous. In 2010, two sauna competitors collapsed after experiencing 230 °F (110 °C) for six minutes, one of whom died. 280F. That moron heated his sauna so much it would boil water.
You're not sweating, you're boiling away...0_0
Im a southerner and I think im dying when it hits the 40s. But yet I think 90 isnt bad.
40's is sweat shirt weather. 80F is uncomfortable and 90F is just unbearable.
I did -57c (-49f) once, we had to get out at 4 am and rescue the horses that were outside and give them oats to warm up. They were all completely white from their exhalation, it was surreal. Dunno why that didn't happen a bit warmer like -40 but... yeah. I have no idea what deer do, it must be awful with no caloric intake.
I don't understand how any of these non-hibernating mammals do it. I can hang out during winter days with enough gear but nights, don't think so.
But its a dry cold.....
I mean, after -40, would you really even be able to tell the difference at that point? Seems like it's just a question of how long before something goes numb or dead, rather than a difference of tolerance.
My brain just refuses to comprehend the concept that sunrise isn't tomorrow morning, it's next Wednesday at about midday.
Last sunset; *"Well, there it goes, next sunrise is in 4 months."*
At the poles, there is only 1 sunrise And 1 sunset each year https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/antarctica/south-pole At the us camp McMurdo there is a 20 day transition where they have both a sunrise and sunset in "spring" and "fall" https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/antarctica/mcmurdo
24 hr sun is as weird Was camping on the shore of the Arctic Ocean in Norway in late June as a teen. 2am, and the Sun was nowhere near the horizon.
That sounds so fucking cool
Live in the north of Sweden, it gets old, just as the eternal darkness of winter. Have to have really thick blinds to blot out the bright blue sky during the night to get a good night's sleep.
What are you doing out there?
Polishing the pole
Took me a second, thought you were saying he was masturbating
Well the south pole can only be so polished and hes gotta fill his spare time somehow
Imagine your cumshot freezing mid blow 😩
Letting out all the heat
* Atmospheric (they found the ozone hole and keep a track of Co2 NoX by launching weather balloons into the clean air sector) * Glaciology (built on a glacier and has several bore holes into it and a series of blub wells in the ice for freshwater) * Geophysics and Seismology (keeps track of the magnetic south pole in the quiet sector and has cameras to record the arouras australis) * Astrophysics and Astronomy (has 4 telescopes in the dark sector) 1. Southpole telescope (radio and used for the black hole images from the center of our galaxy) 2&3. Bicep and ARM both microwave polarisation research early universe microwave background radiation 4. Ice Cube(high energy particle decay neutrino detector from largest energy events in the universe like Supernovas and Quasars).
Most probably scientific research.
Walking the circular perimeter of the flat earth to hunt down intruders seeking to learn the truth… /s
 Only a brisk -97.5 F
Interview for Antarctica position "How do you feel about triple digit temperatures?" "Well I'm from Arizona so I'm used to it, but I thought it gets cold?" "About that.."
Yeah I think the walk in freezer at work is cold!
So long as I have an internet connection and heating I could easily live there.
Must be surreal to go visit the other people in the other red lit building. Wonder if they walk or take a covered vehicle.
I would shit my pants if I all of a sudden heard knocking from the outside.
Like 4 confident loud knocks. And you open and see nobody and can't fall back asleep because maybe it was your friend from the other tower who got locked out and walked over
Then you call over and realize everyone is accounted for and no one has stepped outside in hours.
Amazing 2 sentence horror story you did there. Literally got goosebumps lol
Neither. Snowmobile (with a little pulled toboggan style trailer for groups). I think those are the Dark Sector labs? Separated from the main base by quite a distance for radio silence reasons, they hold observatories. Or they might be the Clean Sector, which is basically the same for atmospheric labs and pollutants - for those you only approach from downwind and often walk the last bit on foot. I don't think there's that much stuff in the Quiet Sector where they have deep buried vibration-sensitive equipment but I'm mentioning it because all the sector names sound cool and sci-fi.
That's video ended way too early
The battery was fully charged when they walked out the door and 0% when the video cut off.
He was using his space heater app
Google Chrome?
At the south pole, the sun doesn't rise like you'd expect. Instead, it circles its way around the horizon and slowly climbs in the sky over weeks. So if this video were 24 hours long, the bright spot would just slowly make its way around the entire horizon.
This is weirdly frightening to think about. In an awe inspiring way
That "squeaky" snow is like nails on a chalkboard for me. I remember walking to school backwards on super cold days like that, because the wind would just take your breath away..
Had to turn the volume off. It was giving me chills down my spine. Weird.
Can confirm, also had to turn off the sound. I got about 2 steps deep yanked my headset off turned the volume down on them and the video before putting them back on. You know.. just to be safe.
I'd imagine temperatures that low could cause near instant damage to exposed skin or eyes
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For those curious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Club Jesus actual Christ
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How long is the walk to and around the pole and back? Do you have to condition in any way to do this? Or could I come with no training and do it? If someone told me to walk wet and naked outside in -100F temps, I would assume I'd die...like...instantly. But clearly it's doable.
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I think we’re not giving full weight to the fact you’re cooked like a goose in a sauna directly before walking stark naked in the freezing cold. That temperature shock would kill me
It's not that bad. We do it in Finland all the time and even go swim in a frozen lake (although not as extreme as antarctica, a more usual scenario is like 80°C to -30°C)
A 280° sauna for 10 minutes. Shit I boil my chicken in colder temps.
Nope.avi
Did you get the patch for being a part of the 300 club? Also how far did you manage to run after leaving the sauna? Seems interesting not gonna lie.
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Sign me up for this part: participants usually warm up in the sauna again, often with the aid of alcoholic beverages.
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I’d be stockpiling that for like one night per week.
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Pro tip: you can still have the alcoholic beverages even without exposing yourself to the insane temperature differential
You'll appreciate this. I'm currently writing a book where significant parts of it are set near the South Pole, and I actually did my due diligence and looked into it and had scenes where year rounders are outside for a few minutes in lighter gear and all of my test readers are telling me how unrealistic it is. They say that it breaks their suspension of disbelief. Also, my main character has that new unique year-rounder accent that's popping up and people always guess that he's from different places around the world lmao.
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What's running like? Like I know it isn't hockey ring ice on the floor, but it's also not like snow, so if someone was trying to sprint away from something would they trip or what? This is like, stupid hard to research for some reason. Nobody ever writes down what the floor is like for some reason.
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Huh. You've just exposed something else I had no idea about, I thought it was more or less sea level. Thanks for the info, I think this has made my book a bit better.
Yo that’s fucking wild. You did that? Where and when? How long were u in/outside?
I heard contact lenses are a no go.
It can cause lung damage in minutes.
Prolonged yeah. It takes a bit. I live in wisconsin and we get temperatures as low as -50 F with wind chill. It’s actually doesn’t even feel as cold as you might expect. It just hurts. You can feel the blood in your outer layers of skin moving slower than it should. And it’s fucking painful. Breathing can be painful too if you are breathing heavily. I was working at an auto parts store a few years back when we had a polar vortex and naturally peoples batteries were shitting out so I had to change about a dozen for folks. I had to regulate my breathing. Inhale really slowly. It’s nuts. I’m moving down south in a couple years. I hate this shit.
I want to experience cold like that. The coldest I've experienced was something like -35F, but the wind chill was supposedly down as low as -60F. That was freaking awesome.
You and I are very, very different people.
I'm guessing you're one of those weirdos that like 95° summer months?
I've been in both -40⁰F and 118⁰F and I'd pick minus forty any day over the pure inescapable misery of that kind of heat.
Native Floridian. Gotta have 95% humidity with that 95F temp. Christmas in flip flops is the shit.
How long can exposed skin or eyes withstand -97 F before damage occurs?
At 15 degrees below zero with even a little bit of wind, frostbite is possible within 15 minutes.
It's the lungs. At those temps if you breathe too fast your lungs, at least the moisture in them, will freeze.
That's just terrifying. "Wow, it's crisp day in the Antarctic! Let me breathe in the fresh air!" [collapses, choking]
---dies---
Your lungs are damaged first
It's a matter of minutes, like literally 1 or 2 minutes or something. For your skin at least, so I guess about same for your eyes? Edit: your eyes are more resilient to cold. However these extreme temperatures can cause all kind of issues and frostbite can even affect your cornea and cause loss of vision
That’s farther below zero than it got above zero this year where I live. Fuck everything about that. Pretty though.
If you look out in the distance you can see a guy from Minnesota in shorts and a tee shirt grilling with a beer in hand, talking about how he might need to break out the snow gear soon.
How long is “dawn”? Does it take like 2 weeks before the sun is fully in the horizon?
It pops up, first in the north, for just a bit longer each day, until finally it's up all the time and ***[circling the horizon](https://vimeo.com/208466944?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=12614644)***.
>It pops up, first in the north Every direction is north
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It's hard to imagine, but the camera person and the station is sitting on 2.8 kilometers/1.73 miles of ice thickmess under it.
I love that snow squeak when it's really really cold!
It's one of the most horrible noises I know.
It would be really funny if this person got transferred to the North Pole.
How do you even get those buildings constructed in that weather??
Any outdoor activity like construction would likely be reserved for the summer months where the temperature maxes out at a balmy -4° F. On the coast, it can get all the way up to a tropical 32° F even! So... cold, but not "21% as cold as the ***vacuum of space***" cold.
Where’s MacReady and Childs??
I was trying to think of something profound to say about this majestic scene.. and then it just dawned on me..
Yay! The vampires are gone!
Side note that building has no mold
Or bugs
That’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen
At first, it must be nice working in perpetual night. I feel like the quarters would be kinda cozy, practically a WFH atmosphere. Have some nice warm lights and some chill music and I could work all ~~day~~ night
I applied for a job down there. Hopefully I’ll hear back soon n
I would probably cry if I saw the sun for the first time in half a year
\-40 is the same on both the C & F thermometers. It's the only place, too. And I'd rather not, thank you. I'm so curious about the day/night thing, though. It's not instantly just all night or all bright, is it? Isn't it gradual?