Will This Break Any Records? 50 Degrees in Siberia - At Least 3 More Days of Extreme Cold Expected
Minus 50 degrees Celsius in Siberia. The extreme freeze will last at least three more days. This is the forecast of the weather service and a warning from the Ministry of Emergency Situations. In several regions beyond the Urals at once, all emergency services are on high alert. Classes are canceled in schools. On the roads, round-the-clock patrols deliver stuck drivers to warming centers. At the same time, opportunistic businessmen rose car heating prices twofold.
Sergey Zyblev studied the Siberian frost geography and collected the most impressive videos.
In some Krasnoyarsk Region areas, it's 50 below zero Celsius. Siberia and the Urals suffer from extreme cold. The freeze became the reason for several accidents at once. In Asbest, a residential building hall turned into an ice cave because of a pipe break. A children hockey team had to be evacuated from a road in Altai Krai. The bus froze. And cars are burning in Krasnoyarsk. Wiring breaks because of extremely low temperatures.
- It's lively here. Oh, no!
Roads are half-empty, cars won't start. In Novosibirsk, prices for car warming rose from 1000 to 2500.
- It's directed to the tray to warm up the oil and the engine itself.
People start using public transport. Buses operate but freeze right on the way.
A passenger:
- Busses pass rarely. We have to wait for around 20 minutes on the bus stops and get terribly cold, in the end.
- How do you keep warm?
- You stand there and wiggle, stomp your feet.
Emergency services work in a special mode. Patrols are on duty on out-of-town roads. Drivers who need help are delivered to warming centers. In Krasnoyarsk Krai, where temperatures have been extremely low for several days, 42 people checked into hospitals with freezing injuries.
It's important to wear appropriate clothing when going outside. A warm hat, warm mittens, a warm jacket. It's better to cover your face with a scarf. That's what the majority of Siberian residents look like now.
The cold front was felt in Novosibirsk, Tyumen, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Barnaul.
On Kamchatka, where it'll also be cold soon, locals have already prepared. They turn their cars into all-terrain vehicles.
- That's it, it's moving.
In Omsk, drivers give lifts to people for free. They also help those who couldn't start their car.
Vladimir Aslamov, Omsk resident: "Many people texted and called today, I also helped yesterday. We jump-started cars, pushed cars to start them"
And some people swam in the Yenisei in minus 40. Special winter makeup with snowy eyelashes is also trendy now. And in Omsk, people use this rare opportunity to make beautiful videos of boiling water quickly turning into vapor when it's minus 40 outside.
Sergey Zyblev, Vladimir Ivanenko, Vesti