The coldest tempatures this winter were like close to -40°C

@harrilaamanen5910

3 ай бұрын

The coldest temperature in Finland is -51.7 degrees and the warmest temperature is +37.2 degrees.

@mikkorenvall428

3 ай бұрын

It's very common and normal having -30...-40 for 2-3 weeks in January in Finland. and -20 is like a warm winter day.

Yep i worked outside for 3 days i januari when it was -42 degrees :) It is not that bad as long as you are not standing still doing nothing. I prefer -30c over +30c. it is easier to escape the cold.

@janseger1693

3 ай бұрын

in the north of Sweden too. more than minus 40

@anni.korppi2389

3 ай бұрын

Yes. I was doing outside work at Lapland at January and it was cold XD

@Kalevi-zd1no

3 ай бұрын

It's not the cold that hurts but humidity. More water in the air, the colder it feels and affects

@Hellsong89

3 ай бұрын

Yeah remember at 90's couple years when it was -40-45C coldest in the southern Finland and -55C up in north. That was cold, but while not spending much time outside going school it was just normal day.

"we are starting to approach spring". Don't mind me, I'm just here crying and sobbing in Finnish! Yeah, give it about 2 more months and we'll see.

@nanni9615

3 ай бұрын

Well, living in the middle of a forest has shown me what REALLY feels like living all seasons. I am in full spring mode, have been snowshoeing and the snow came down from our roof. And I don't have to constantly heat the oven. Keep your chin up, it is coming with good speed! :)

@elmortti

3 ай бұрын

I'm glad to tell you there was finally no ice under the bus stop

@bslizardette4669

3 ай бұрын

Lol, and here I was just yesterday looking around a thinking: "Wow, did spring actually arrive in time this year?!" Can't get too excited, though, we all know that takatalvi is coming.

@elisakallokoski801

3 ай бұрын

@@bslizardette4669 Winter is always coming... XD

@oskar6747

2 ай бұрын

I'm happy to inform you that already over 50% of the local football field is free from snow and ice and there are people playing daily. And I have seen people eating ice cream outside in the sun. It's coming.

At the start of the year it was -44.3 degrees Celsius

To "why would you leave your house when it's -30°C" the answer is that a nordic society just needs to keep going in these temperatures also. No matter if it is -35 in the morning, you'll just have to get out, force your car to start up, use half an hour to forcefully scrape the ice off the windshield and get to work! If you are lucky, you can work inside in the warmth, others will have to find ways to manage working outside. It is not fun, not pleasant, but it just has to be done. Maybe that is how we develop "sisu".

@henkkahenrik4183

3 ай бұрын

Also, our school used to force kids to spend breaks outside up to like -34 or -38 Celcius. (Can't remember exactly which one it was). They even sent teachers to check the bathrooms to check students weren't spending breaks there to escape the cold.

@daimonien

3 ай бұрын

I rather take -35c than +35c

@jimmykarlsson2567

3 ай бұрын

Yess absolutely 💯, Routsi here 😊. Sometimes you need to start up your cars in the weekend even if you ain't gonna go anywhere. Because the battery can run out in the cold 🥶. So on Monday going to work you have a fresh battery 👍👍👍

@Sinivalkoseepra-yz1ke

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, starting a car in those temperatures can be quite unnerving actually 😄 Like, you turn the key and be like "please start, please start, please start" while listening your car making some obnoxious noises 😅

@o0131

3 ай бұрын

@@Sinivalkoseepra-yz1ke siksi volvo

Summers in Finland can get pretty hot, too. +32 (and few degrees over that) isnt that unheard of, though not that frequent or normal, however. Mostly its like between +15 to +25, but can get over that, sometimes. In fact, few summers ago there was very hot summer here in Finland, the temperatures stayed up to +29-33 for nearly all the summer. Like nearly 3 months in a row, and that is smth quite extraordinary here. It felt like Finland had moved from the North to the Mediterranean, or smth. I am okay with heat, IF that heat stayed outside of my house, and I had nice and cool, air-conditioned house where to run away from the heat outside. Unfortunately having air-contidioning isnt that common in Finland, and the houses are built to keep the warmth in, and the freezing temperatures in winter out. So you can image how ours houses heat up after few weeks of heat wave striking here? Not fun at all.

@jimmykarlsson2567

3 ай бұрын

Yess, i worked outside in 2018 the whole summer from May to August in Sweden 🇸🇪. I think it rain maybe twice and it was like you said 28-33 the whole summer

@oskar6747

2 ай бұрын

@@jimmykarlsson2567 I was mostly inside with two portable AC units. I don't understand people who like that and voluntarily even travel to that kind of climate.

We had loads of days at around -30° or colder this winter. And the amount of snow!? At peak we had about 50cm snow depth in the south of Finland, and in the north it was like 70-80cm. This winter was more like the winters in my childhood in the 80's

I think the coldest temperature ever recorded in Finland was -58,5C. It was somewhere in northeastern Lapland, IIRC.

@jalmarisharp1849

3 ай бұрын

Okei i say over50

@oh2mp

3 ай бұрын

No, it was -51.5°C in Kittilä 1999.

@VanArn

3 ай бұрын

@@oh2mp 👍

@grzyrekkapena3045

3 ай бұрын

@@oh2mpthat's official temperature, we had -54 at Pudasjärvi unofficial

@mr.sts.p

3 ай бұрын

In Sweden to!

We had 4-5 days of -40c to -43c in january. third day we had a power failiure, that was not fun, not fun at all. That was in the inland in northern sweden

-30 is pretty cold but it's not as tough as you might think since most people are on the move and eventually get indoors to warm up whether it's a bus, school, workplace etc. Being outside for weeks while doing your military training, that's when you get to actually feel the cold and eventually learn how to deal with it.

I will take -35°c anytime before +35 °c. We have had a great winter in Finland this year, and I have loved every minute of it. 😍

@jauhoprinsessa

3 ай бұрын

anything above +20c is torture if you are actually working.

@blossomowl

3 ай бұрын

@@jauhoprinsessa Absolutely true.😊 I always say that I do not get how anyone can get anything done during the heatwaves. You can always put on more clothes, but you can't take of your skin. 😅😅

In my opinion this winter has felt like an actual winter for a long time: lots of snow that stayed for a long period of time, some sun shining and it hasn't been so wet and grey all the time. Yes, now it's melting little bit but it has been cold enough to keep the slosh away. Well, takatalvi is still ahead of us - wish it wasn't - but soon enough it's over and spring is here. At least it's more light outside for longer, which makes the mood better. I remember my childhood when we had lot of snow in Finland and Estonia (I'm Estonian), it was such a bliss to play outside with family and friends, building igloos and snowmen and snow graves (sounds macabre but it was such fun). Nowadays you just dream about these kind of winters, so this one was a pleasant surprise. Remember the winter few years back, the one that felt like autum came and stayed for months until spring started, no snow almost at all and the little we got melted instantly away? Don't miss that at all. You just have to layer up very well, have thick soled shoes that keep your feet warm and a thick jacket, preferably a long one to keep the biting wind away from you extremities. The worst part of -25 to -30 Celsius is the biting, cold winds that almost suffocate you because you can hardly draw a breath. And any moisture you have on your skin makes your skin hurt because the water hardens and dries your skin; cover your piercings because the metal will freeze and then you're hurting a lot.

Oulu also has that sweet and nice ocean wind to make that -32c feel even worse.

In Sweden it was -43.6°C on January 4, 2024

@RobertForslund

3 ай бұрын

Yup, that was on my birthday! 😁

@nuuzel

3 ай бұрын

In Finland It was recorded -44,3´C in 2024 January 5th

My maximum was -42C° in the city of Espoo. Can't recall exact year but around 2003-2006. In -40 everything is still on, everything is open, kids come to school, ect. In our local school -25C° is the limit when kids can choose to have playtime indoors. Snow does not change anything.

@niinatakkula4851

3 ай бұрын

Snow doesn't change anything, except for vr (trains) 😂 it seems vr is kind of irish

@squidcaps4308

3 ай бұрын

-32C is the coldest day in record in Espoo, 1978.

@Redfizh

3 ай бұрын

@@squidcaps4308 It's average at weatherstation. Regional differences in terrain can tweak temperatures up or down. Nearby valley has constant -10 compared to the hill where I live on. I do not change my mind as more than one thermometers had same values that day.

@squidcaps4308

3 ай бұрын

@@Redfizh No, it isn't. It is peak value, it has even the time of day registered with it. You can't get "average -30C at 02:45". It is peak value from one spot that is selected so that the spot is about average. And you will NOT get -10C differences, if the region is at -30C you will not see -40C anywhere. You may just get -33C and -27C but not +-10C. That would mean that the people who measure these things are amateurs.. which they are not.

@o0131

3 ай бұрын

"Espoon huimin pakkasennätys kajahti lähes 40 vuotta sitten: 31. joulukuuta 1978 lämpötila laski Otaniemessä tasan 32 pakkasasteeseen."

I live in Finland, near to our capital Helsinki, which is southern part. I recall the coldest it got was like - 26 degrees for 3-4 days. It's about wearing suitable clothes and shoes and protecting your skin. I like winter and cold whit lots of snow ❄️. And go swimming in winter - it's kind of funny: the colder the weather, the warmer water feels.

@TheRawrnstuff

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, I'd say the same. The cold also felt colder before the snow came in. Like, the -22'c during the 2023 side of winter felt worse than the -22'c early 2024. Or it's just a case of getting used to it, after summer. But I feel like there's more to it. Maybe sunlight - the little there is - getting reflected?

I remember when I was in serving my time in Finnish Defence Forces as a Military Police, during the winter we took part in the big winter exercise, and camped in Lapland, in tents, and warmest temperatures were -22C° and coldest was -40C°. Yes we sleeped in tents. And we had to secure the small airport in Lapland. For a week. Thankfully my phone was a regular phone instead of a touchscreen device, so I was able to use it no problem, although back then touchscreens were just becoming a thing. And my MP3-player was like a godsend, as we were able to listen to some music when we were positioned to the gate, outside, guarding it from pretty much nothing. Because no sane person gets out in those temperatures unless necessary.

In January we had one whole week that the temperature was -30 - -40 °C every day..

I am from Finland, born and all my life there native man. The coldest winter I was outdoors over an hour in one go was -30C. And I've slept in forests quite a bit in the past, not just during the army time which was nice, but the coldest night in the forest I've spent a night in, was -15C at least, maybe colder, during the night. I felt pretty frosty afterwards when woke up after like 6-8 hours of sleep, even though I'm a finnish ice bath guy. But it was no big deal really, I recovered quite quicky and very fully, think it even made me a bit stronger.

Here in south-west coldest winter 23-24 for a long time It is not only that cold with temperature, but wind ! and moisture. Greetings from Turku/Åbo

I remember a buss ride in the 80's... Bussdriver told that he got the diesel engine running in the "warm" garage of -15, and his boss had given an order.. "what ever you do don't shut the engine down." it had just been measured -55. and during that bussride it was -42 outside... And due the extream cold buss did not need to follow bus stops, but passengers could be left as close to houses as possible.

i have to pick icicles out from my mustache when it is very cold.

Irish in finland guy at least used to live almost in my neighbor. Never ran into him but when he was walking around and filming it was always somewhere nearby. Oulu, northern ostrobothnia. In other words, northern Finland. Winters are no joke. I was working in Vuokatti in january and it went down to -42 and that was just fabulous. E: Oh, the leaving a house thing. You kinda have to, since nothing stops in here just because it's cold. You still gotta go to work, school etc. it has to go down to dangerous numbers before it affects how you go about your day. Maybe you don't take evening strolls during those.

Yea at Joensuu, Finland we experienced -36°C at the worst that coldest week this year so far, it's getting warm again.

In Sweden on January 5, 2024, a climate station recorded minus 44.6 degrees Celsius. But the lowest temperature ever recorded in Sweden is minus 52.6 degrees Celcius, recorded in 1966 by an official measuring station in Vuoggatjålme.

Where I live, Suomussalmi, Eastern Finland, near Russian border... the first week of January it was cold... -30° to -37°, 7 days...

Depending on where you live, some place can have the mildest while another place has a normal winter. I still remember when the lilac started pushing out flowers in the middle of the winter, like that year was crazy but can't remember what year thou.

My school in southern Finland used to force kids outside up to like -34 or -38 Celcius. Like unless it got colder than that, we weren't allowed to spend break times inside. Some kids used to spend breaks in bathrooms because of it, which lead to the teachers monitoring the bathrooms to make sure nobody was there just to escape the cold.

I think the coldest temperature ever registered in Sweden was -52°C in Sarek national park.

@EiraAimo

3 ай бұрын

I can be wrong but propably it was same time when finnish record -53'C was measured, so 1999? Very cold air all over nordics then.

I have to walk to school some days when is like -20°C or -30°C and there where like to my knees snow😂

When it goes down to -30 and below, just remember to layer clothing. Warm longjohns and longsleave, collage pants and shirt, then thermo pants and jacket. Needs to be airy each layer so it keeps warm. The most hurting feeling is breathing. If the cold air hurts, breathe throug your hand ( keep your palm against your mouth). And remember: don't get sweaty. If you move to fast and get sweaty because of the layers, you will get cold when you stop moving 😂

My daughter moved from Finland to Edinburg, and went to work in a store, in the summer she went to cool in the store's frozen warehouse

@Wezqu

3 ай бұрын

You can do the opposite when its -30C outside and go warm up in the freezer as its like 15C warmer.

Your body produces heat when you move so moving (walking, jumping, running, skiing) is the key if you want to stay warm.

Well, -30 is too much for me too and I'm Finnish. I love England, Scotland and Ireland, I visited them all and lived in Ireland for a while. It feels colder to us Finns in those countries in winter (at least in my experience) because your clothes are wet and damp from raining horizontally, and even if you get inside, it's still damp and cold. I actually had to buy a radiator in Ireland because the house was so cold. I know it's not all the houses, but the house I was living was old and very damp. Here in Finland, it's warm inside, and we can go to the sauna after freezing outside. And yes, the Irish are huge tea drinkers as well. We Finns are notorious for our coffee-drinking habits. :D Love your reactions! Keep rocking!

The coldest temperature ever recorded in Finland is -51.5°C in 1999. The coldest of this year was -44.3°C.

There was 5th of January 2024 as low as -44,3°C at Enontekiö, Finland. It was the coldest day in Finland for the 21st century. Since 1961 when there has been accurate measures, coldest day has been 28th of January 1999 when there was -51,5°C at Kittilä.

Problem and joy of 4 seasons is that cold temperatures hits you every year. You can be sweating at summer +30'C and couple months later it drops to -30. Every year it takes time to get used to it, even if you are native finn. Beginning of the winter when it drops just below zero, it can feel more awfull than -15'C later, just because you are accustomed. And when you are finally accustomed, comes spring and cycle starts again and next winter will be new shock again after summer lol :D

In january there was almost a week at -35ºC this year. Coldest I have seen was -42ºC in 2007. With proper clothing it doesn't really feel that bad. Coldest I cycled to office this winter was -30ºC, shell clothes (no insulation filling) and without thermals.

I am a finnish ice bather and cold lover of sorts. One of my dream travelling destinations is Antarctic, the south pole. It's a very big and very cool place, I'd really like to at least once experience what -40C or maybe -50C or even colder feels like. Maybe even take my shirt off there for a moment just to feel how it feels like. We'll see. And oh, you asked about how does the cold feel like. Well... I think the "sharp fresh daggers, tiny thousands of them" is a good description, though it's not a bad feeling really as long as you don't panic and go "omg cold so pain I die" or something. The great guru (or well, he prefers to be called guide because he can't help you if you can't help yourself, base truth there), Paul has coined the term "pain teacher", and what it means is, you listen to your pain, your anger, your fear, etc, and learn what it tells you, see how it reacts to things you do etc, and grow from it. That's the same what spiritual folks call "growth opportunity", which it is, but they leave the "work" part outta it, the "pain" part.

No bad weather, just bad clothing

This winter there was someone in very northern Finland that had -46 - -47.. In southern Finland (Turku) I think we had at most -30ish. At some point when it gets really cold, at least in the coastal region, the air just gets so dry that it does not feel as cold any more. -20 after a coldsnap can almost feel less than -5 that is more humid. This years winter have been a good proper winter that I like. Edit, and dealing with it - just use layered clothing and add layers. Only "pain" is when being outside and then going in to say a shopping mall with all those clothes on - feels like you start to melt. Also, do not take off gloves and/or mittens and play with your phone outside.. your fingers and hands will get cold really quick and just start too really really ache from being so cold and if you put them under luke warm water inside right after, it feels like it is burning.. so that is something to keep in mind. Also see to it that your shoes and feet always are dry, dampness conducts heat, ie. cold. Same goes for hair. And one clarification, all temperatures that he speaks about here are in Celsius degrees, not freedom units.

@Hellsong89

3 ай бұрын

Also reason why if you get wet say fell to ice for one reason or another with clothes on, you really need to haul ass to inside cause hypothermia even with just -20C hits fast and hard. Fell to ice with just one foot in mild -10C day, hauled ass inside and directly to shower, putting cold water on the limb, while taking clothes off the slowly increased temperature keeping it near but not enough to burn, then took long hot shower to increase core temperature and drank hot tea with warm meal to increase core temp that had dropped just from that a degree. Mind distance was just 50meters. If you fell to ice during -30C completely with average core temp, not increased by working out, i'm not sure you could manage get inside before hypothermia hits. -50C... you dead.

Snow days just seem so wild to me. Like getting to stay home??? No way. I do remember that in elementary school when the first snow came and was good weather to make snowmen and castles etc. we would spend a big part of the day outside just creating and not studying so that was always fun. Also when it was colder than -25c we didn't have to go outside during break time

Love the videos man, you're a cool dude 😊 you gotta come visit the nordic countries soon

He forgot to mention the most important part of keeping yourself warm in the cold temperature; to were loose clothes. If your clothes are tight, it won`t help how many layers you have. It is the air that is between you and the cold that insulates you from the cold. So, at least get a little "too big" coat to keep warm. Same thing with shoes. The amount of socks won`t help you if they`re too tight. I don`t even have a proper winter coat. Didn`t mind the cold weather, the only thing that was a bit annoying was that the car was so stiff. In my home town it was around -32 to -37 for days. The cold doesn`t feel so bad, unless it`s windy as well. At the moment, my area has the most snow in Finland, 107 centimeters.

When we where at war with Soviet Union it was -40 C most of the Winter War. That's why it's called the Winter War. Imagine that. Laying down on two feet of icy snow for hours gun frozen and tanks frozen.

Must say the most important thing about layering. Make sure you have air between the layers!!! If you just layer up and pack it tight you're gonna freeze to death. Air is a crucial insulator when dealing with extreme temperatures.

In January this year in Sweden, we droped down to -44,6 C in Kvikkjokk in northern Sweden apparently the coldest in 25 years in that area. Not the lowest temperature we've ever recorded, though which was in 1966 with temperatures down to -52,6 C in Vuoggatjålme, also northern Sweden. :P Now, these are not common temperatures by any means, and it rarely get colder than -30ish C in Norrland. My personal coldest temperature I've experienced was -26 C I think, during a skiing vacation but I live in the southern part of Sweden, by the west-coast, and coldest down here this past season was -17 C I think, it occures maybe one week á year, and the coldest winters in these parts are usually around -9 C to -4 C

The coldest temperature in Oulu is -41,5 C and it was measured on February 1966.

The only thing that used to bother me with them -30C temperatures, was that my car didn't always feel like going to work. But it was a French car and I got rid of it. This winter has been a breeze with a proper car, also Webasto helps quite a bit.

This winter had a powerful start, but ended up lame at the end. But, we had some good cold series. We got below -20c at november, and thats cold for that early in the winter. I live next to ocean (bay of bothnia), and coldest was -35c, it lasted about 5 days. That (now frozen) ocean evens highs and lows in temperature, it was colder in east and in lapland.

So we got about 50 centimetres of snow at the most in one snowstorm, and in school we had to (of course) go outside BUT the teachers were also outside shouting that spring is coming😭

We still go to work, and out on breaks in school where i work. This year -32c is the coldest i heve seen.

If there's -30, I wear short underwear, jeans and short sleeved shirt with warm winter jacket. If I specifically go outside for a long period of time, I typically use long thermal underwear and winter overalls. That's for example if I go for whole day snowmobile ride, walking in a forest, clean snow from my yard or such. If I have to stay on place long time, I put fleeze in a top of my thermal underwear. The worst mistake which so many people are doing is to use goretex clothes and layered dressing with some sort of sports underwear as a bottom layer. Goretex don't work in -30 and there's no need to have protection from water. Usually it's not windy when it's that cold and even if it is, normal fabrics hold wind good enough. Sports underwear are made to feel dry when they are wet, but you can't be if it's -30. Air is so dry, it don't take much to completely carry away what you are sweating. It's all about evaporation and transportation, not capillaric conduction. You just get ice chrystals inside your cloths, since 0 temperature line is about half way on your clothing layers. So, it's one thick main insulation which passes some air as you move, then something warm against your skin, like wool or silk-wool, and maybe that fleeze, if you need one, but don't make yourself sweat. You also need to move and produce excess heat, so blood keeps up flowing on your fingers, your toes and your face. Ps. Balls don't fall off in cold. They actually like it, because typically they suffer from heat in a tight pants. It's perfectly fine to walk few hundred meters naked, go swimming in the ice-hole, walk back and then go to the sauna. I do it all the time, and I -36 is coldest for a long walk. -43 is my coldest for a ice swimming, but then we built our sauna on the ice, from ice. It's nice feeling to roll in a soft snow before going into icy water. However, it must be done before. After swimming, there's risk for frost bites. Same goes with feet. In a cold weather and long distance, you NEED shoes.

The funny thing about Finland is that it can quite easily get from +35°C in the summer to -35°C in winter. -10°C is like basic winter. I'd EXPECT to get that kind of temperatures, or it is no actual winter at all.

the lowest was in prob -84 when it hit -47...in central Finland..i had to walk like a kilometer to the school every day...and it stayed like that for a month

Here in Southwest Finland the coldest this winter was around --26. Not really cold but too cold to go skating or skiing for longer period of time. One hour or so is good.

During christmas holidays I went on crosscountry skiing at -32 C. Its just layers that you need

The coldest temperature i have experienced was in Gällivare, Sweden. It was -36c. It's impossible to describe. It's absolutely horrible.

In Oulu, when the wind blows from the sea, -30 degrees Celsius feels like -35/37 and the air burns the face and it feels like needles are being thrown into the face

@jarmotolvanen9525

3 ай бұрын

Lowest ever in Oulu has been -41.5 back in 1966.

Many phones do not warn you about too low temperature, they just shut down. You just have to restart it when it's warm again.

Also funny in Finland when in september it gets below 10c youre like "brrr i gotta find my winter coat and woolies" and after winter in april when the temps finally hit 10c youre like "wohooo today im going out wearing only my t-shirt and shorts" 😂

I was in a army, year 2000 and i was camping in winter time. It was almost -52 and that was like normal day. This year it get in north -44.

I live in Finland. I like to take long and fast walks every night. In my opinion -10 to -15 is optimal. Then I don't sweat too much. But when it gets -20 or below the coldness gets hard for my lungs and nose and my face goes numb. I don't like to use a scarf because it directs the exhaled air upwards to my glasses which then get covered with frost, and I can't see anything. 😄 The coldness also makes my nose run which isn't nice with beard.

It never got to -50C in Oulu. -41.5 is the coldest day in Oulu, ever in recorded history, in 1966. I see a bunch of people exaggerating how cold they have experienced. Mine is probably something like -36C in 50 years, the record here is -37.5C, broken this year but those temps usually happen in the middle of the night, so i didn't feel it. But it is funny how you get used to cold, this winter i had to drag my dead ebike home in -27C, after a gig i was mixing so it was well after midnight, and i was just fine. I learned that -24C is where it stops working.

That cold winter was when I was born. 86-87 winter, it was -35C in Helsinki so my my mom couldnt take me out due to that.

Minus 35 was normal in the 90's, and in the summer it can be +35 for a while, that being the hottest period. I learned how to deal with warm weather in a foreign country where it was +38 for ten days. You need a lot of mineral water, and salty stuff, like olives.

I worked in Lycksele in Sweden a few years ago and it got down to minus 36C, I live in the north of Sweden the coldest it got was 32C here this winter :). I love the cold so I don´t mind mid 20´s but 30 or lower wooh it bites, almost like your skin is burning.

You wear long johns. And maybe long johns. And you have to take the wind factor in count also. 10 m/s wind makes -30C feel like -47C. Also humidity effects.

southern winter was not that cold (-5 to -15), but it was looooooooong compared to last few years. Ofc we have very cold days mixed into there where it gets -20 to -30. Also when beard gets fast like that in -32 celsius , its probably a little bit wet from morning shower or something.

This 2023-2024 winter it got around -25'c on Tampere area (southern part of the Finland). Back mid 90's when I was studying in Kemijärvi, coldest were somewhere around -45~47'c. And that was a day when I had an exam, that couldn't be skipped. Walked 1.5km to school. Locals were like "nothing new", students from southern parts, looked like a "Michelin Man" with all possible clothes on... At first -45'c doesn't feel cold, as the air humidity is almost zero. Only way you notice it is when your lips simply dry and skin of the lips start to peel off... Oulu, is next to sea, so -30'c feels quite harsh as there is always higher air humidity than on areas further from big water bodies (that might have still open water).

Minus 35 celcius. And, when we were/are kids we had to walk or cycle to school every day for many kilometres and back home every day.

-36 celcius was this winters coldest day in Joensuu

The -40°C this January was wild. a few minutes ourside and the hairs in my nostrils froze to the point that I could barely breathe from the nose and had to breathe through my mouth only. I took skiing goggles with me (because skrew what people think about you at that point) but breathing throught my mouth some exhale vapour got on the glass of the goggles and that froze almost instantly too so I couldn't see anything if I wore them.

As far as hot drinks go, in Finland it's coffee (and never mind the time of year) or glögg (Swedish idea, very much a winter thing). Some people drink tea as well but mostly it's coffee. Oh and if you actually have a cold there is medicines that get mixed with hot water too. Cold weather and sauna together -- builds up our resistance. Disease causing bacteria and viruses simply can't tolerate both cold and heat unlike people more or less used to it.

1986 on January one week -36. I was at school all week, busses go like normal. Kids were at home with a lady upstairs. I didn't want them to get out at all. They were then 5 and 3.

In Finland it got about -34°C when I visited my cousins.

How do you deal with coldness? merino wool layer, mid layers, winter boots, winter trousers, winter jacket, winter hat, two layers of gloves. Then you just go out and remember that you did not die before in that coldness and you are not going to die now. :D Also your own body heat will warm the air between layers of your clothes and you don't want to wear too tight clothes. Air is a good insulator.

@NimuelNightfire

3 ай бұрын

Same in sauna. You just need to believe that you are not going to die there.:D

@NimuelNightfire

3 ай бұрын

..and I mean a Finnish sauna, where there is usually at least +80 degrees of celcius.

Finland is a quite long country, over 1100 kilometers. That -30°C happens every winter for at least a few days there in Oulu, where Aaron lives. Here in the south that cold weather is rare. I think here in the southern coast it hasn't been -30°C since 2011.

@Fydron

3 ай бұрын

The thing is though north its dry cold but near the coast its moist and cold which is actually way worse or that is what my work buddy once said he was from north and hated our southern winters because -20c near the coast feels far worse than -40c in the north.

I think at it was -50.5°C back in 1999. But about 2011-2012 it was about -43°C. That was little chill weather.

Back when I was a lad, these types of temperatures were expected, if not otherwise, then certainly in January of each year. It's never been a big deal to me, you just put on whatever clothing ("thermals"?) is needed not to freeze. I lived in Kiruna, a city in the Arctic, for a few winters recently, and it felt approximately similar to how my more subarctic home city used to feel back in the 90s - climate change is very much real, we have had a very long streak of abnormally warm winters, generally trending warmer each year. Nowadays, sub-30 down here is considered "extraordinarily cold" and people aren't as well prepared as they were in the 80s and 90s, so you wouldn't believe how much people complained. I just put on my "thermals" (including a buff-like scarf from military surplus over my beard) and had no problems being outside. In this type of cold, as well as in most other harsher climates, layers are your friends, and your toes, fingers and ears are the most vulnerable, so at least two layers of socks and two layers of gloves. I have tight-knitted gloves that are good to -20 or thereabouts, and a pair of windproof gloves I wear over those in colder temperatures. Two hats (caps?) aren't as easy to fit, albeit doable in a pinch, but a well-isolated windproof one will carry you down to -25, and a hood on your jacket will help it keep you warm if needed. If it's windy, ski goggles can be a good idea.

I think the lowest temperature this winter was -35. We had few weeks when it was really really cold all over Finland

Tight shoes are a bad idea. Two pairs of socks ain't enough if it's too packed in :D Textile shoes and enough room to wiggle. Saves so many toes - especially hiking and working outside.

Let's be absolutely clear though: -10°C in UK would be absolutely miserable with the open sea on all sides. Not just cold, but wet, windy miserable cold. -20°C - -26°C is still very manageable as long as it'd static cold, you just layer clothing like smartoon. But -10°C in humid and windy? Nope. Nope nope nope.

North karelia -36°c for about a week time this year. Our home is heated only with ovens so we have to do logs quite a bit. Have to say that we did not go for a walk with dogs when it was over -20 because their paws can't really handle it. I use overalls ment for ice fishing when it's really cold. And leather mittens are a must!

One point though, he lives in Oulu, which is fairly high up in the north. Good for cycling in winter - not that good for an early spring...

Actually you need to drink a lot of water since air is so dry in winter. Your body will lose a lot of moisture just through breathing.

had a 2 weeks of -25 to -30 during one of training camps during conscript service, never been more willing to spoon with the homies in the tent.

I live in sweden and I workt in an outsied kindergarten and we where outside even when it was -30 degres celsius. But on those days the kids got to eat lunch inside even if they typicaly ate outsaide.💚💚

The cold air hurts your face. Its like a lot of little needles. And the parts that sticks out ( noose, ears, fingers, toes) get numb and when you cant feel them you need to get warm. And that will hurt too. Best way to keep warm is to move and get the hart pumpin.

Weather data from the beginning of January 04.01.2024 -42.3 degrees was measured at the Enontekiö observation station on Thursday morning... There is still a little way to go from this winter's coldest record to the coldest record in Finland's measurement history. The coldest measurement in Finland was -51.5 degrees, which was made according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute at the Kittilä Pokka observation station on January 28, 1999.

It is necessary to say right away that the temperatures on the coast are about the same as inland, and in 98 the army in Lapland it was -46 celsius and it was inland, but it was pretty damn cold even with good equipment. If it's cold and you're waiting for a bus, move around and don't just stand. I can say that -15 is not dangerous at all and working in the rafting industry in Finland makes houses better than in the UK. The coldest place was Rovajärvi in the army 1998-46, but it's inland so it hits as hard as the coast, but it was quite cold and if you don't believe Goodle.. And welcome to Finland in the winter after watching Santa Claus, but in the name of honesty I have to say that I would recommend northern Norway. You do need to know how to drive as there are quite steep mountain roads and it is quite an expensive country because the Norwegians are the richest people in the Nordic countries, yes they have made thousands of billions in an oil deposit.

Middle off Sweden is where I am from and coldest we had was 35 minus, the 2 km walk to the bus stop was fine but chilly. Standing and waiting for the bus was no fun, my toes went cold and I had to take of my shoes and warm my feet up on the heaters in the bus, didn't have my wool socks or the best shoes. As we say in Sweden "finns inget dåligt väder, bara dåliga kläder" wish roughly translates to there are no bad weather only bad choices in attires.

Coldest morning was -37°c, had to put my long johns on, first and the last time this winter

I think freezers are commonly around -16°C to -22°C or something like that (the best being around -18°C I think) so yeah it's quite a lot colder.

Regarding the hydration thing, Im sure I am not alone in this, if Im outside when it's cold, I often tend to get a dry throat

Gotta love hair freezing in the midwinter because i refuse to wear a beanie 😂

It was around -44 coldest this year. Basically if u can go for freezer around -22 and spend there 1hour then u can imagine how it feel to go -44 =)

Your body adapts to the cold. First frost nights in oktober feels like pain .But in februari after a week or two of -20 the same -5 is nothing. It takes a few weeks to get used to it every year. And as a northern person I'm rubbish in hot weather. When it's hotter then 24 I start to suffer. 30 is just pain.

Finland coldest place was in Kittilä january 1999 (Lapland) -51,5 and warmest east of Finland Joensuu July of 2010 37,2. So e have very warm and very cold. Children go o school even if there really cold and a meter of snow and people go to work

In Chicago, we’ve gotten down to -50 before