Known as the coldest region on Earth, the city of Yakutsk in Siberia is witnessing extreme cold this winter. Temperatures plummeted to minus 62 degrees Celsius in the city of Yakutsk earlier this week.
The mining town of Yakutsk is located about 5,000 km east of Moscow in the Russian Far East.
People in the small town are suffering from extreme cold this winter like every year when temperatures in the city plummet to below minus 40 degrees Celsius.
The coldest temperature is at #Siberia 🇷🇺 since 2002! 🥶
🌡️-61.9°C Zhilinda ➡️ 0.1°C over monthly record since 1942 [-64°C were also recorded in the 1880’s].
🌡️-60.0°C Olenek ➡️ First -60°C since 1969 and coldest since January 1959!🌡️-59.8°C Suhana🌡️-59.7°C Delyankir🌡️-59, 5°C Oymyakon pic.twitter.com/OvV3RBaz3J
– Thierry Goose (@ThierryGooseBC)
January 10, 2023
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Yakutsk’s cold conditions
The temperature in some regions of Russia is currently -54°C (-65°F). It was so cold that the tires exploded on the road. #SlavaUkrainii #Yakutsk #Russia #Siberia #Frost #freeze #Якутск #mороз #Россия #stone pic.twitter.com/FTt3VOWeCv
– Volcano (@CarolynnePries1)
January 12, 2023
- The city’s current situation became even worse when the temperature in the world’s coldest city Yakutsk dropped to minus 62.7 degrees Celsius after two days of setting a record of minus 50 degrees Celsius.
- Despite the extreme cold, city dwellers are somehow adapting to this dangerously cold Siberian weather.
- With a drop to a low of -62.7°C (-80.9°F), the day proved to be the coldest day in Russia in more than two decades.
- A temperature of -62.7 degrees Celsius was recorded at Tongulakh at 9am on Wednesday, breaking the station’s all-time low for the third time this month.
- Not only that, this is the lowest temperature that Russia has ever recorded since February 2002 and January 1982, this is also the coldest temperature on Earth so far this year.
People in Yakutsk: what are they talking about?
The name of the coldest city in the world is #Yakutskthese days -50°C. It is not necessary to keep fish at freezing temperatures.#Russia #Siberia #Moscow pic.twitter.com/yXM7Kvyo68
— Sanjeev 🇮🇳 (@Sanjubolbam)
January 17, 2023
Despite getting used to this cold crisis, people are still taking extra precautions to keep themselves warm.
One woman said: “Just wear warm, layered clothes, you have to dress like a cabbage.”
Another resident, Nargusun Starostina, said there was no special secret to dealing with the extreme cold when selling frozen fish.
“You can’t stand this,” said a woman who walked out of her house in the city surrounded by icy fog, wearing two scarves, two pairs of gloves and several caps and hoods. this cold. Either you shape yourself according to the situation or you will become a victim of it.”
“You don’t really feel the cold in the city. Or maybe it’s just your brain preparing you for it and telling you that everything is normal,” she added.
In 2018, it was reported that some residents of Yakutsk said their eyelashes had frozen solid due to the harsh cold of winter, we can only imagine what the current conditions are like.
A real winter in #Siberia… pic.twitter.com/qAs0iHz4sq
— Roberto C. Lopez (@Bromotengger)
January 15, 2023
Home to less than 1 million residents, people braved the frigid temperatures and jumped into the ice-cold water to mark the Orthodox Christian Epiphany Day, commemorating the baptism of Jesus Christ.
Yakutsk was in the news in July when haze from nearby wildfires tore through forests and blanketed the region in thick smoke.
Scientists have expressed deep concern about the increasing frequency of forest fires due to climate change in the Siberian Arctic.
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