In the Republic of Yakutia, in northeastern Russia, the coldest, inhabited places on Earth are in Oimyakon and Verkhoyansk. They make European winters look old with their record sub-zero temperatures. On Monday, the thermometer there dropped below minus 60 degrees (!) Celsius for the first time in ten years…
“Today the air temperature in the village of Delankir reached minus 59.9 degrees, and in Oymyakon the thermometers showed minus 61.0 degrees! For more than ten years there has not been such a monarch in Oymyakon and in the whole republic!” wrote Mikhail Leus, a leading specialist at the Fobos weather center, on his Telegram channel. The images (above) show snow-covered houses and frost-covered trees and freezing fog.
The last time the air temperature in the Yakutian village of Oymyakon fell below minus 60 degrees was on January 6, 2011. It was then minus 61.1 degrees, Leus reports. The average temperature in Siberia in winter is usually between minus 15 and minus 39 degrees Celsius. The lowest air temperature ever recorded in Oymyakon – minus 67.7 degrees Celsius – was recorded on February 6, 1933.
Ort is the cold pole of Asia
Oymyakon, with a population of nearly 500, is considered the cold pole of Asia alongside Verkhonyansk. Funny detail: the name of the small town in the east of the Republic of Yakutia (also known as Sakha, nut) means something like “hot spring” in the Yakut language.
Known as the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth, the municipality of Oymyakon is located in eastern Yakutia at an elevation of 741 meters. The lowest temperature ever recorded – minus 67.7 degrees Celsius – was reportedly recorded in February 1933.
Source: Krone
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