Norilsk in the Russian Far North is the world’s northernmost city of more than 100,000 people. It’s the second-largest city in the Arctic Circle after Murmansk. Its average HIGH temperature in January is -23.6 degrees (-10.5 degrees Fahrenheit). Now, THAT’S COLD…
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The top image is one of the rooms in an “ice hotel” in Jukkasjärvi in far northern Sweden (it’s just above the Arctic Circle). The Icehotel isn’t a goof… it’s a real hotel that one can book a room and stay the night. Obviously, it only operates from late November to early April every year, during the cold winter months. The temp is kept at -5 to -8 degrees (18 to 23 degrees Fahrenheit), and if the cold gets to you, the hotel has a shuttle to a conventional inn where the heat’s on. I might have a drink at the bar for a laugh, but trust me, let others have the “pleasure” of a night’s stay here… I’ll pass on it, if you please…
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2012
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