Monday, December 12, 2016

IT'S COLD OUTSIDE

It is not much of a breaking news story that during winter it is cold in Chicago. Although with the arrival of the so-called polar vortex, it will be extra cold this week.

Coldness is course relative. For example, after a few days of sub-freezing weather, a day where the mercury rises to 40°F can feel warm. Here is the ten-day forecast for Chicago.

I thought that we were due for some unbearably cold weather, until I checked out the weather forecast for Yakutsk, Russia. Now that is some cold weather! Perhaps I will temper (no pun intended) my complaining about the falling temperatures. During the next ten days in Yakutsk, Russia the warmest temperature that they can expect to experience will be -22°F sometime on Tuesday. That 'heatwave' will be short-lived as the temperatures will plunge to -43°F one week from Wednesday. During this same period, the coldest it is forecast in Chicago is -2°F. So what, really, do we have to complain about! By the way, Yakutsk is a very real city with a population that exceeds a quarter of a million people.

Your Food Diary For:

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Butter Flavored Grits	600	126	6	12	2,040	6
	600	126	6	12	2,040	6
L U N C H
Tostitos - White Corn Tortilla Chips	200	24	9	3	166	0
Taco Bell - Hard Shell Taco	850	60	50	40	1,550	5
	1,050	84	59	43	1,716	5
D I N N E R
Spaghetti With Meat Balls	800	0	24	0	1,149	0
	800	0	24	0	1,149	0
S N A C K S
Chips Ahoy Chocolate Chips Cookies	480	66	24	3	330	33
DARK COCOA MELTING WAFERS	400	44	24	5	82	38
	880	110	48	8	412	71

Totals	3,330	320	137	63	5,317	82
Your Daily Goal	3,987	498	133	200	2,300	149
Remaining	657	178	-4	137	-3,017	67
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 2,057 extra calories from exercise today

Your Exercise Diary for:

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
Elliptical Trainer	99	1,032
Elliptical Trainer	99	1,025


Daily Total / Goal	198 / 30	2,057 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	1306 / 210	12,861 / 4,130

Yakutsk

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Yakutsk (Russian: Якутск; IPA: [jɪˈkutsk]; Yakut: Дьокуускай, Jokūskai, pronounced [ɟokuːskaj]) is the capital city of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located about 450 kilometers (280 mi) south of the Arctic Circle. Population: 269,601 (2010 Census); 210,642 (2002 Census); 186,626 (1989 Census).

Yakutsk is a major port on the Lena River. It is served by the Yakutsk Airport as well as the smaller Magan Airport. It is a major supplier of diamonds. Its population is almost 300,000 and its average winter temperature is −34 °C (−30 °F), which makes Yakutsk the coldest city of its size or greater in the world.

Climate

With an extreme subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification: Dfd), Yakutsk has the coldest winter temperatures for any city. Average monthly temperatures range from +19.5 °C (67.1 °F) in July to −38.6 °C (−37.5 °F) in January, and only Norilsk has a lower mean annual temperature for any settlement of over 100,000. Yakutsk is the biggest city built on continuous permafrost, and most houses there are built on concrete piles.

The coldest temperatures ever recorded on the planet outside Antarctica occurred in the basin of the Yana River to the northeast of Yakutsk, making it the coldest inhabited place on earth. Although winters are extremely cold and long – Yakutsk has never reported a temperature above freezing between 10 November and 14 March inclusive – summers are warm (though rather short), with daily maximum temperatures occasionally exceeding +30 °C (86 °F), making the seasonal temperature differences for the region the greatest in the world. The lowest temperature recorded in Yakutsk was −64.4 °C (−83.9 °F) on 5 February 1891 and the highest temperatures +38.4 °C (101.1 °F) on 17 July 2011 and +38.3 °C (100.9 °F) on 15 July 1943. The hottest month in records going back to 1834 has been July 1894 with a mean of +23.2 °C (73.8 °F)^[14] and the coldest January 1900 which averaged −51.2 °C (−60.2 °F).

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