Snow in Ulaanbaatar
September 16th: Mongolia is white. Yesterday it was still too warm to wear a jacket, with temperatures over 20 C and a clear blue sky. Today, the sky is grey and snow comes pooring down. Winter has started.
Image: A woman sits on her balcony and looks amazed at the white world around her
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posted by Guido V @ 10:05
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Just yesterday my wife was asking about autumn in Holland. She was wondering, as it is her first autumn in Holland, when it would be getting cold. :) I knew winter starts early in Mongolia, but not this early.
RML
Shards of Mongolia
I spent a whole winter in mongolia in 1989/90 and was very surprised at how the conditions varied to those in the UK. Here in the UK winter temperatues of around freezing can be quite unpleasant. In Mongolia temperature regularly were at -40°C and whilst it was undeniably cold there was little or no increase in the unpleasantness in comparison to the UK. The difference is humidity. In the UK the humidity is high but in Mongolia it is low. They rarely have slush as a by product of snow unlike the UK.
Someone I was with had experianced temperature of below -50°C at the airport in UB. Apparently moisture would form in the air in the shape of crystals when you exhaled.
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