How igloos keep people warm?!

Imagine yourself in the coldest part of Arctic, ice-cold winds are blowing and the temperature is about -45 degree Celsius. You might consider a thick-walled house (with smoke coming out of the chimneys) to be your last hope of survival. Consider again, because all you need to survive those ice cold winds and bone-freezing temperature is snow, a lot of snow. But not to build a snowman, rather to build a big halo snowman-tummy, with enough room for you to sleep.

The word igloo comes from the Inuit language which means house (not a snow-house in particular). Inuit people live in the artic tundra where the temperature ranges from. -40c to -60c in winters. Two popular misconceptions about Inuit people are. 1) That these snow-made houses are their permanent residence. 2) They build igloos because they have. “nothing else to built a house from”. Time to debunk them.

Most Inuit people used to live in normal brick houses and still do, but when on hunting trips etc igloos were their D.I.Y houses, and still are. Although some people used igloos as their winter residence, and some communities went as far as making igloo-villages…igloos were still temporary.

Igloos have various sizes, ranging from small ones, typically used by Inuit for fishing and hunting trips, to huge ones, for special gatherings(you know, pole dancing, etc).