Extreme weather

It's freezing in the winter, but it also gets pretty warm in the summer. It gets up like Celsius, high 30s, low 40s sometimes. Not super often, usually high 30s. But winter, you'll usually hover in the mid negative 20s Celsius, which I don't know what that is in Fahrenheit. And then you've got sometimes some weeks where there won't be any clouds and it'll drop into the mid 30s, negative 30s, sorry. And sometimes it'll get down to negative 40. In some cities like Tomsk, it'll get super cold, but there's not a lot of wind. And then you've got cities like Khabarovsk and Novosibirsk itself that have a lot of wind. And so even though it only gets down to the low negative 30s, it's still freezing. So wear warm clothes.

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The coldest I ever experienced was in Tumen. It was my first winter, and my companion and I were out delivering cookies, and it was negative 35 degrees Celsius. Still very cold. I would definitely recommend buying all of your winter things there. They have it better there, it'll be warmer there.

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So the weather is pretty, pretty cold, like you could assume. But the summers are pretty nice, they get probably around 80s max, maybe not 85. The winters I saw close to negative 40 degrees Celsius, which is negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit as well. But it's, it's pretty cold, you definitely learn how to bundle up. Um, and most of the stuff you can, I got most of my winter stuff there, because they, they definitely know how to keep warm the best.

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For me, I served both of my winters in Vladivostok itself, in that area in the Primorsky Krai, and it's pretty temperate there. It's just barely colder than in the Koreas. We definitely did get snow in December and January and February, but it wasn't as much like in Siberia or further up north. The coldest I ever walked in, walked around in daily, was about negative 20 degrees Celsius. So it's not too bad. I know out in Siberia, there are people that go in negative 40 degree weather, so they suggest to you, don't buy any of your winter clothes in America, just wait till you get to Russia, because they have the good stuff. They have a lot of good material that you can buy there to last the cold winters.

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So it's very, very, very, very, very cold in Moscow. And I'm... I don't like the cold, but it was very cold there. My second winter there, it was like negative 35 degrees Celsius, which is about negative 35 Fahrenheit. And it's just... like your eye... my eyelashes would freeze every time I blink. They'd freeze together. My nose hairs would freeze and everything. It was not very pleasant. I was like that for like... probably like seven months.

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In the west, which is over by Lake Baikal, the coldest it got was negative 50, but you'll find that if you just are smart with your clothes, it's not as miserable as that probably sounds like to someone who's never been in negative 50 degree weather. On the island of Sakhalin, it wasn't as cold, but Sakhalin just gets dumped with snow, so you can record the snow in stories of buildings, whether it just goes to the first story or up to the second story. That being said, summers were really nice. It's not freezing cold all year round. Summers, it got up to like 80 degree Fahrenheit.

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So, you may have heard that Russia is really cold, and that's true. My part of Russia was the far east side of Siberia, so it got really cold, down to about negative 40 degrees Celsius in some of my cities. It gets really, really cold. You have to have really, really nice boots, especially because your feet get so cold. And when you're on the buses, the ice crystallizes on the windows and it makes the prettiest ice patterns that you'll ever see. One of the coolest things I've seen. If you breathe in too fast in your nose, it'll freeze it and sometimes give you a bloody nose, so you have to be careful about that too. But yeah, very cold.

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It's freezing in the winter. I left out a scarf once to dry outside and it froze like a disc and I had to thaw it out in order to wear it. Your hair will freeze so don't walk out with it wet, invest in a good beanie and a jacket. In the south it's like negative 20 degrees Fahrenheit maybe in the winter and then in the northern areas it can get to where negative 40. And summer is 100 degrees, 90 is probably the usual so it's really hot and really cold.

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I'm guessing you know by now that it gets pretty cold in Russia. It's like cold 10 months. I think it snowed at the beginning of June when I was there. Very, very cold. I got down to negative 40, but that was in the coldest city. It's bearable, okay? You'd think, oh my gosh, I can never do that, but you can, and you buy your coat there, you wear like a billion layers. It's definitely the coldest I've ever been in my life and ever planned to be in my life, but you can do it, okay? It's definitely doable. Yeah, just expect what the Russians love to say, you know it's warm when it snows, because it gets so cold that it can't snow anymore. So once it's snowing, you know it's warm.

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So I remember this one time, it was really cold. I mean, obviously it's Siberia, but it was cold, but it wasn't cold enough that it was snowing. So it started to rain, but then because there was a really strong cold wind, the rain would fall on our coats, and then it would freeze and turn into ice on our coats. And so if you held still for long enough, you would have, you'd have like a kind of a layer of ice on your coat, and if you moved it would crack and break off. But it was really interesting weather. Siberia is an interesting place like that.

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So the weather isn't, I mean it gets pretty extreme. It gets up to about, it gets really hot in the summer, about 90 depending on where you are, and very very cold in the winter. We're talking like negative 50 for extended amounts of time. Blizzards happen, the snow just doesn't go away. You don't see the sun for a couple months, but as long as you're prepared for it, it's not bad.