why is oymyakon colder than the arctic?
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Oymyakon has two main valleys beside it. These valleys trap wind inside the town and create the colder climate. The temperatures here are extremely cold throughout the year, and it snows frequently.
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To get to Oymyakon, first hop on a flight to Moscow. From there, fly either to Yakutsk or to Magadan. Both cities are over 560 miles (900 km) from Oymyakon but it's as close as you're gonna get by major airlines.
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The Arctic is a type of the tundra biome. ... The Arctic is in the Northern Hemisphere in Northern Alaska, Canada, and Siberia. Because of the permafrost, vegetation is scanty and consists mostly of low-growing plants such as herbs, grasses, and lichens. Unlike Arctic tundra, Alpine tundra does not have permafrost.
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Maritime climate has fewer changes in temperature while in a continental climate the temperature greatly fluctuates. In the maritime climate, summers can be not scorching and winters not too cold. A continental climate, on the other hand, has summers that can be very hot and winters are freezing.
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It's not two oceans meeting, its glacial melt water meeting the off shore waters of gulf of Alaska. The reason for this strange phenomenon is due to the difference of water density, temperature and salinity of the glacial melt water and off shore waters of gulf of Alaska, making it difficult to mix.
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The walls block the wind, which is often so bitter that it can make freezing temperatures feel many degrees colder. Snow and ice work as insulators to trap body heat inside the igloo. Thus, the occupants of an igloo double as a furnace of sorts. Insulation capabilities actually increase a few days after construction.
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The weather in the taiga is horribly cold, similar to the tundra. It also has very long winters and very, very short, mild summers. It doesn't get a ton of rain, but it typically gets more than the tundra. ... More animals live in the taiga than the tundra, but they have similar adaptations.
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The biggest difference is that the Arctic is sea surrounded by land while the Antarctic is land surrounded by sea. This fundamental difference is the reason for many of the other differences between the two regions.
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"Climate change is by far the worst threat to Arctic biodiversity. Temperatures are expected to increase more in the Arctic compared to the global average, resulting in severe disruptions to Arctic biodiversity some of which are already visible," warns Meltofte.
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The Arctic is an ocean, covered by a thin layer of perennial sea ice and surrounded by land. ("Perennial" refers to the oldest and thickest sea ice.) Antarctica, on the other hand, is a continent, covered by a very thick ice cap and surrounded by a rim of sea ice and the Southern Ocean.
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The Arctic has a lot of floating sea ice, and it is in the news a lot because it is decreasing dramatically, but sea ice loss in the Arctic does not directly contribute to sea level rise. That's because it is already floating — it is not on land, so its melting does not directly impact sea level rise.
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It is cold. ... That being said, Iqaluit is blessed with a “dry cold”, which means there is not a lot of moisture in the air. This lack of humidity makes frigid temperatures much more bearable.
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Arctic and Subarctic Regions. ... The arctic region sits inside the Arctic Circle and the subarctic region lies just below it. Earth's arctic and subarctic regions are extremely cold, icy areas of land and sea that receive almost no sunlight during their long, dark winters. Temperatures rarely rise above freezing.
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The polar climate regions are characterized by a lack of warm summers. Every month in a polar climate has an average temperature of less than 10 °C (50 °F). ... A polar climate consists of cool summers and very cold winters, which results in treeless tundra, glaciers, or a permanent or semi-permanent layer of ice.
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The main difference between the two tundra is why each is cold. The alpine tundra is cold because it is so high above Earth's surface. The alpine tundra has no trees. It has grasses and shrubs like the arctic tundra.
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For the Northern Hemisphere, the months of January and February are typically the coldest. The reason is due to cumulative cooling and a relatively low sun angle. ... The sun angle is relatively low all winter, thus the land and water can continue to cool down through the middle of the winter.
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Prudhoe Bay, along with similar communities on the North shore of Alaska, features a Tundra climate (Köppen ET). Winters are long, very cold and due to its location above the Arctic Circle, some weeks in winter feature days with a never rising sun.