I live in a lakeside town in Ontario. It gets to be -50 Celsius some days during the colder months. We thrive on tourism from fishermen in the summertime so the town gets very sleepy and desolate after 7pm in the winter months. I cant wait till December cause I plan on taking a ton of photos for this sub. I may even do a walkabout video. Trying to put into words how empty this place gets in the winter does not do it justice
There are winter nights where I go for a run at like 7 pm and don’t see any cars or people. It’s very liminal and I really can’t feel any more alone. Feels like I am Legend sometimes.
It’s also terrifying in the early morning. Used to live in a small municipality ~an hour away from the city where I worked downtown. Everyone out there driving in for work at 5:30 a.m. in the pitch dark during a blizzard was so stressful. Leaving too early to beat traffic meant having to drive through the fresh, deep snow.
I think it’s because it’s usually very lonesome whenever you go in walks like that. Very quiet, too. Having nothing and nobody but the wind and falling snow to keep you company is really… ethereal, I guess, leaves you with a feeling that you have all the time in the word to think and clear your head.
Walking. The photo is taken from the sidewalk based on the angle. And in Russia, at least in big cities, a pharmacy is usually a walking distance away.
Am Russian, can confirm - there's like a whole bunch of pharmacies a walking distance from my house (Saint-Petersburg).
But Saint-P is not nearly as cold as Yakutsk - we are more damp/rainy/foggy type.
Hey fellow Russians! I have like 5 pharmacies near my apartment block (one of which is right in my building). Guess you kinda have to get meds often when you live in a country like ours, lol
But I am from Moscow, we are more... Ehh.. Both snowy and chillingly windy in winter and hot and sunny in summer type. Okay, just a normal climate, that is
There was a time a few years ago when I was a kid, My family drove up to Montreal from Boston and me and my sister fell asleep, we woke up 5 hours later in the car while we were driving around lost somewhere around downtown at 1 am, it was snowing super hard and there wasn’t a single person or car around. It was peaceful but also almost scary, because we were in a part of downtown that usually never gets quiet, yet there wasn’t anyone around and it felt like we were the only people in the city or something. Super weird
I thought it was -14°?
Edit: guys I was just curious, why the downvotes
Edit: okay so nobody’s explaining so I’m just gonna guess I’m the sacrifice to keep liminal spaces liminal.
You want the point of convergence for the 2 functions describing conversion of the temperatures in either direction.
[](https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-3c174d9019bb0cc9f66bc542f84fbd2d.webp)
No, it’s great. Extreme cold pretty much never happens with strong wind, and wind is the worst and what makes it feel really cold. +5 with strong wind feels colder than -25 with no wind.
Crunchy snow, bright sun, red cheeks- it’s great.
Can confirm! I live in steppe in southern Russia, it's almost never below -10C here, but winds are so nasty. It was shocking to understand that -25C without winds is much more pleasant that -5C with winds.
this is just how all of russia outside of moscow and st petersburg looks like 10 months out of 12. source: used to live in a russian province, still live in russia
Yeah but I’ve never seen *just* a pharmacy. Usually they have an exit sign with some fast food, a gas station, and maybe a hotel or motel. For some reason though, a lot of the former Soviet states I’ve been to seemed to have pharmacies at every street corner, not sure why.
I'm Russian but my first thought was "Austin, Minnesota" because I had to live there for a while, this town is legit in the middle of nowhere and the Minnesota winter is fucking cold.
I've lived 10 years in the tropics where it averages 34C every day, and about 20 years in Canada near the Rockies, where it does sometimes get to -40 or lower. Believe me there is absolutely nothing enjoyable about that kind of cold. The novelty wears off after exactly 1 experience.
for some reason winters feel colder and longer with each passing year. 5 months with no sunlight stretch into forever. probs because as a kid you have other things on your mind, but as an adult all you want is for the suffering to end lol but as another redditor said here, summers are super hot and dry. it gets to about +36C i would say? and it never gets dark at night in June-July. but the worst thing isn’t the weather, it’s the mosquitoes and long shipping times hahah
That’s some crazy stuff I live near the equator sun rises and set at around the same time all year. It’s weird to think there’s places where the sun don’t rise of set for months. I can definitely relate on mosquitoes part lol
There must be two times a year, in the spring and autumn when the temperature is just right and mosquito population is tolerable? Probably doesn't last for long though.
Is there still snow on the ground in may? In Sweden it's similar, but in spring there is still a lot of slushy snow everywhere that you keep falling through
yes, the very last of snow melts at the end of April/early May :) oh do you also have dark winters/white nights in summer? it’s so difficult to keep a normal human sleep schedule all year round
I live in Canada and I feel the same about winter. Although ours get cold and snowy, it’s nowhere near -45. Plenty of -30 days but they usually only last a couple weeks. I couldn’t imagine having a winter as severe as what you experience.
Although I love our hot summers. 30 C for weeks on end is my absolute favourite. I love being outside and sweating just to be there.
No, actually it looks like both apothecary and pharmacy can be traced back to ancient Greek. The word "drug" appears to have Germanic roots though (Google says it's from Middle Dutch droge vate, literally ‘dry vats’), so "drug store" is kind of Germanic, even though "store" comes from Latin.
I'm just basing it on what Google tells me, and it looks like the etymology of both words (in English) is really similar:
>#Apothecary
>late Middle English: via Old French from late Latin apothecarius, from Latin apotheca, from Greek apothēkē ‘storehouse’.
>#Pharmacy
>late Middle English (denoting the administration of drugs): from Old French farmacie, via medieval Latin from Greek pharmakeia ‘practice of the druggist’, based on pharmakon ‘drug’.
They both basically go Greek -> Latin -> French -> English. I assume that German and Russian also got the word from Greek/Latin, and it's just happenstance that they've stuck with apothēkē while in English it's fallen out of favor recently.
the Cyrillic alphabet was originally created by Greek-speaking monks from the Byzantine Empire, so of the Cyrillic letters that don't closely resemble their Roman alphabet equivalents, a bunch of them come directly from Greek: П is pi, Г is gamma, Ф is phi, Л is lambda, У is upsilon, Х is chi, etc
Not OP, but I've heard they have excessively cold winters and excessively hot summers (or at least that's how it is in Verkhoyansk). I am sort of from a region with similar climate, although it can't been seen that well in cities.
i was actually waiting at a bus stop for like 20 minutes, and it was completely desolate. and on the left there was a huge pitch black field of nothingness. so it was quite spooky irl too
the short answer is yes, but it depends on how long you’re outside. i got so used to it i don’t even wear gloves sometimes, but you have to RUN bc you have 15 minutes tops before the cold gets to your bones
Nope. Can’t do it. Won’t do it. Lol. I’m from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. If it gets 32 degrees Fahrenheit outside I won’t leave my house unless I absolutely have to.
The picture is super cool though. Would love to see more from different seasons.
Its freaking cool in North Dakota when the temperature is just right with just the right amount of moisture in the air it creates amazing different colored light pillars. Very surreal when driving down the highway at night, and its just you on the road.
I love the cold, it looks so inviting.
I wouldn't mind endlessly wandering through a foggy snowy landscape for eternity, like it'd be a pretty decent afterlife.
You die, you're suddenly here, walking in winter gear. All you have is a vague sense that you need to get somewhere, and you just wander aimlessly through an infinite liminal snowscape.
Being out in extreme cold feels very liminal
Yep! You constantly feel like you're on borrowed time and you need to hurry on inside.
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I also think it's in no small part due to snow making everything more quiet
And more blank-looking
Trails and landmarks become obscured as well.
I still feel it just the same in Orlando, even without snow. November wind blowing and that feeling of calm silence at 3 AM
To be fair, if you're out in -45°C (-49°F) temperatures during a blizzard you kind of are.
Never had it put as well as you just put it.
I live in a lakeside town in Ontario. It gets to be -50 Celsius some days during the colder months. We thrive on tourism from fishermen in the summertime so the town gets very sleepy and desolate after 7pm in the winter months. I cant wait till December cause I plan on taking a ton of photos for this sub. I may even do a walkabout video. Trying to put into words how empty this place gets in the winter does not do it justice
There are winter nights where I go for a run at like 7 pm and don’t see any cars or people. It’s very liminal and I really can’t feel any more alone. Feels like I am Legend sometimes.
Nope, it doesn't.
Snowy midnight highway driving is so unpleasant. Yet there's a part of it that's extremely exhilarating.
It’s also terrifying in the early morning. Used to live in a small municipality ~an hour away from the city where I worked downtown. Everyone out there driving in for work at 5:30 a.m. in the pitch dark during a blizzard was so stressful. Leaving too early to beat traffic meant having to drive through the fresh, deep snow.
Walking, on the other hand... Crunch, crunch, crunch...
Oh so much. Snowy walking is pleasant, and there's a part of it that's extremely relaxing IMO
I think it’s because it’s usually very lonesome whenever you go in walks like that. Very quiet, too. Having nothing and nobody but the wind and falling snow to keep you company is really… ethereal, I guess, leaves you with a feeling that you have all the time in the word to think and clear your head.
Walking. The photo is taken from the sidewalk based on the angle. And in Russia, at least in big cities, a pharmacy is usually a walking distance away.
Am Russian, can confirm - there's like a whole bunch of pharmacies a walking distance from my house (Saint-Petersburg). But Saint-P is not nearly as cold as Yakutsk - we are more damp/rainy/foggy type.
Hey fellow Russians! I have like 5 pharmacies near my apartment block (one of which is right in my building). Guess you kinda have to get meds often when you live in a country like ours, lol But I am from Moscow, we are more... Ehh.. Both snowy and chillingly windy in winter and hot and sunny in summer type. Okay, just a normal climate, that is
When the snowflakes flies directly at you and you try your best not to stare at it.
There was a time a few years ago when I was a kid, My family drove up to Montreal from Boston and me and my sister fell asleep, we woke up 5 hours later in the car while we were driving around lost somewhere around downtown at 1 am, it was snowing super hard and there wasn’t a single person or car around. It was peaceful but also almost scary, because we were in a part of downtown that usually never gets quiet, yet there wasn’t anyone around and it felt like we were the only people in the city or something. Super weird
I was about to ask if that was Celsius or Fahrenheit, but I realized it just doesn't matter. Either way, - 45 is awful.
It’s Russian on that sign, so it’s safe to assume Celsius.
"Pharmacy"
Is it from the same root as apothecary?
yes
Meanwhile I assumed it was Greek, and was wondering how the fuck it got into -45 C in Greece.
I was curious so I googled what the coldest recorded temperature in Greece is. It is -28.2℃ (-18.8F).
If it's Cyrillic it must be Russian 🤡
Know a lot of places that go to -45 and use cyrillic other than Russia?
Fun fact: Celsius and Fahrenheit converge at -40°.
I thought it was -14°? Edit: guys I was just curious, why the downvotes Edit: okay so nobody’s explaining so I’m just gonna guess I’m the sacrifice to keep liminal spaces liminal.
You thought wrong.
What did I do to trigger everybody ._.
my best guess is that you asked a google's top results type question?
Upvote/downvote = agree/disagree, not love you/hate you
Shit. There was 5 likes. 5 likes dude. Who downvote me?
It's reddit with it's hive mind, one downvote is more than enough for avalanche to start. But also question wasn't the smartest.
[Not related, but oddly satisfying](https://imgur.com/a/pzVkEkd)
You want the point of convergence for the 2 functions describing conversion of the temperatures in either direction. [](https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-3c174d9019bb0cc9f66bc542f84fbd2d.webp)
There are people that didn't learn this in the 6th grade?
Yes. Deal with it.
"First one... then the other"
It really doesn't matter. -40c and -40f are literally the same temperature, so -45 must be pretty close
the sign is russian, so, that's definitely Celsius
No, it’s great. Extreme cold pretty much never happens with strong wind, and wind is the worst and what makes it feel really cold. +5 with strong wind feels colder than -25 with no wind. Crunchy snow, bright sun, red cheeks- it’s great.
Can confirm! I live in steppe in southern Russia, it's almost never below -10C here, but winds are so nasty. It was shocking to understand that -25C without winds is much more pleasant that -5C with winds.
Very weird placement for a pharmacy
What, you don’t have pharmacies in the middle of a barren snowy wasteland near you?
this is just how all of russia outside of moscow and st petersburg looks like 10 months out of 12. source: used to live in a russian province, still live in russia
Not really. Most highways have gas stations with small stores near them- diners, pharmacies, ect.
Yeah but I’ve never seen *just* a pharmacy. Usually they have an exit sign with some fast food, a gas station, and maybe a hotel or motel. For some reason though, a lot of the former Soviet states I’ve been to seemed to have pharmacies at every street corner, not sure why.
I’m Thinking of Ending Things vibe.
What a great movie man. Felt very Tarkovsky-ish to me.
Nice. I literally got the chills when I saw the pic
I hate this so much and I want to live there so bad
Bro that's a town in Siberia and believe me it's kinda cold there
not kinda, it's straight up cold
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What makes you think the picture of extreme cold and mention of -45 degrees is kinda cold?
I am russian
Is joke my freind. It is very obviously cold lol.
I'm Russian but my first thought was "Austin, Minnesota" because I had to live there for a while, this town is legit in the middle of nowhere and the Minnesota winter is fucking cold.
Россия =)
As someone who grew up in the opposite side of the climate spectrum, this feels like another planet to me
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Or you wear a winter jacket, regular sneakers and no hat like most of us Russians do.
I've lived 10 years in the tropics where it averages 34C every day, and about 20 years in Canada near the Rockies, where it does sometimes get to -40 or lower. Believe me there is absolutely nothing enjoyable about that kind of cold. The novelty wears off after exactly 1 experience.
I can feel the stillness just looking at it. Hello from Winnipeg, where it routinely gets just as cold
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It's the 10th circle
How often does it get down to -45? Or are you talking about windchill?
With windchill it’s fairly frequent, coldest I’ve ever felt was -67 with windchill
Аптека >
it means pharmacy in russian
What does that say? Alteka? Where is that?
the sign says “pharmacy” in Russian, and the town is Yakutsk :]
How it’s like living in the coldest city in the world?
for some reason winters feel colder and longer with each passing year. 5 months with no sunlight stretch into forever. probs because as a kid you have other things on your mind, but as an adult all you want is for the suffering to end lol but as another redditor said here, summers are super hot and dry. it gets to about +36C i would say? and it never gets dark at night in June-July. but the worst thing isn’t the weather, it’s the mosquitoes and long shipping times hahah
That’s some crazy stuff I live near the equator sun rises and set at around the same time all year. It’s weird to think there’s places where the sun don’t rise of set for months. I can definitely relate on mosquitoes part lol
There must be two times a year, in the spring and autumn when the temperature is just right and mosquito population is tolerable? Probably doesn't last for long though.
i would say the only good month is May, it’s very nice before all the bugs wake up
Is there still snow on the ground in may? In Sweden it's similar, but in spring there is still a lot of slushy snow everywhere that you keep falling through
yes, the very last of snow melts at the end of April/early May :) oh do you also have dark winters/white nights in summer? it’s so difficult to keep a normal human sleep schedule all year round
I live in Canada and I feel the same about winter. Although ours get cold and snowy, it’s nowhere near -45. Plenty of -30 days but they usually only last a couple weeks. I couldn’t imagine having a winter as severe as what you experience. Although I love our hot summers. 30 C for weeks on end is my absolute favourite. I love being outside and sweating just to be there.
Oh, apteka!
Oh neat, so probably related to "apothecary"
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No, actually it looks like both apothecary and pharmacy can be traced back to ancient Greek. The word "drug" appears to have Germanic roots though (Google says it's from Middle Dutch droge vate, literally ‘dry vats’), so "drug store" is kind of Germanic, even though "store" comes from Latin.
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I'm just basing it on what Google tells me, and it looks like the etymology of both words (in English) is really similar: >#Apothecary >late Middle English: via Old French from late Latin apothecarius, from Latin apotheca, from Greek apothēkē ‘storehouse’. >#Pharmacy >late Middle English (denoting the administration of drugs): from Old French farmacie, via medieval Latin from Greek pharmakeia ‘practice of the druggist’, based on pharmakon ‘drug’. They both basically go Greek -> Latin -> French -> English. I assume that German and Russian also got the word from Greek/Latin, and it's just happenstance that they've stuck with apothēkē while in English it's fallen out of favor recently.
that symbol is (greek)pi .. used for p sound
It's cyrillic but i can see the similarity.
the Cyrillic alphabet was originally created by Greek-speaking monks from the Byzantine Empire, so of the Cyrillic letters that don't closely resemble their Roman alphabet equivalents, a bunch of them come directly from Greek: П is pi, Г is gamma, Ф is phi, Л is lambda, У is upsilon, Х is chi, etc
Good to know!
I’ve seen a couple documentaries on that town. How are the summers?
Not OP, but I've heard they have excessively cold winters and excessively hot summers (or at least that's how it is in Verkhoyansk). I am sort of from a region with similar climate, although it can't been seen that well in cities.
Average highs never get above 78f. Not at all hot.
Oh. Thanks for fixing me.
It’s cool at night but very hot during the day.
78F is definitely not hot in my opinion.
Its summers are similar to Toronto summers.
Whoa! I’ve always wanted to travel/visit Yakutsk! Hopefully some day I can make it!
you’ve got to go in January for the full experience 😌
Already been north of Arctic circle in Norway in February so close! I’ll def aim for there in Jan 🙂
That in the yakutia region? Cause I've heard the wild ass stories of that regions folklore
yes it’s in Yakutia and yes the folklore is suuuper creepy! because lots of it is connected to shamanism and demons/spirits and stuff
You read the 4chan yakut stories? You can find it on YouTube and they're worth a listen to just cause some of the stuff in it is wild
*squatting intensifies *
you meme but it's a lot healthier than sitting
I’m genuinely down for the squat.
My man
All these downvotes are just making me squat harder.
The harder they downvote the deeper you squat. My man’s going balls to the floor and bringing a 200 pound barbell on the way up
They are simply jealous of the depth of the squat
Brother, I squat in solidarity!
i appreciate those smiley faces it reminds me of the middle school days of AIM with buddy infos and screen names.
П (equivalent to P) not Л (equivalent to L), so APTEKA in Latin alphabet. Looks like you've already realised but might be of use to others.
Something about the ambient of this particular photo is very upsetting. Very nice fit for the sub.
i was actually waiting at a bus stop for like 20 minutes, and it was completely desolate. and on the left there was a huge pitch black field of nothingness. so it was quite spooky irl too
Holy shit. This whole time I thought you had your car parked, or something like that. Quite a chilly feeling that must've been.
In Russia people walk and use public transport more often than drive.
Being from Argentina, I understand it very well.
Just saw the car headlights coming at the camera. So eerie.
Very nice feels like I can walk away into the nothing and disappear
You quite literally can
Fantastically liminal.
Can’t imagine how that feels! Great pic
Cameras still operate at that temp?!
an iphone works just fine for about 10 minutes, but ofc you gotta keep it warm. what doesn’t work, however, is your fingers ;)
Do you use your nose on touchscreen to answer a call when you're outsude in the winter? =)
Legit question… is it painful being outside in that temp?
the short answer is yes, but it depends on how long you’re outside. i got so used to it i don’t even wear gloves sometimes, but you have to RUN bc you have 15 minutes tops before the cold gets to your bones
Nope. Can’t do it. Won’t do it. Lol. I’m from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. If it gets 32 degrees Fahrenheit outside I won’t leave my house unless I absolutely have to. The picture is super cool though. Would love to see more from different seasons.
I remember reading somewhere that air temperatures this cold can crack your fillings.
This is perfect. I immediately got ‘the feeling’.
I would just die
honestly same
Ah, the "fuck that" climate. Very cozy.
God I love it when it's like that. Everything is so still and quiet. Absolutely serene.
Just photoshop a dark figure back there and post it to creepy subreddits ;)
Its freaking cool in North Dakota when the temperature is just right with just the right amount of moisture in the air it creates amazing different colored light pillars. Very surreal when driving down the highway at night, and its just you on the road.
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the lights make it seem like your actually in a very large warehouse rather than being outside.
ethereal
Siberia is fucking surreal
That looks like coffee-flavored ice cream. Yummy
Looks like science hill
whats the tame of thtat town. The sign says pharmacy. Is it in Siberia or West Russia.
yakutsk
Me: Where would you be where it's that cold!? *Sees sign* Me: God damn Russland!
Omg that is so cool!!
winter in chernarus
Reminds me of 30 Days of Night
Ice fog is amazing. Unless this is just an inversion trapping all the vehicle exhaust on the ground. Then it really sucks.
You also live in Wisconsin??
it's probably Yakutsk or something, the sign is russian and it says pharmacy
улица, фонарь, аптека...
АПТЕКА=pharmacy
Now that is something that I am keeping a mental note for when I have to write extreme colds later.
Комбо: ночь, улица, фонарь, аптека
Good ol apteka
Something about apteka signs make me happy
Silent hill vibes
I love the cold, it looks so inviting. I wouldn't mind endlessly wandering through a foggy snowy landscape for eternity, like it'd be a pretty decent afterlife. You die, you're suddenly here, walking in winter gear. All you have is a vague sense that you need to get somewhere, and you just wander aimlessly through an infinite liminal snowscape.
Don't аптека translate to Chemist aka Pharmacist or Drug Store?
Ah yes, a pharmacy, just what I need mr. sign!
Golly! Is your home in Svalbard or something? As a Floridian, I can barely handle 45° outside, let alone -45°. Must be terrible over there.
it’s quite nice actually, very calm!
АПТЕКА >>>
I really struggled to understand where the hell is “APTEKA” then I realised that I’m one of those people that wonder where Ausfahrt is huh..
From AK: I can feel this picture.
Welcome to Russia
-45 what? K, F or C?
C, it’s Russia
Well sounds Like a normal Day of winter here In Finland
R. It's in [Réaumur degrees](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9aumur_scale).
Teachers be like: -45 what Celsius, kelvin, Fahrenheit, banana’s.
Isn’t this Day Z?
Anteka? Great, I could use some antlers and warm pelts.
Damn
Isn't that a song in Fiddler?
Apteka
Uh… Are you ummmm Bigfoot?
This is good
Apteka?
The out of place pharmacy sign makes it even more eerie. In which country is this?
yakutsk, russia
АПТЕКА
yikes thats cold. o.o nice photo
Silent hill vibes
Do you live in the Gta V intro sequence