The coldest city in the world...50 degrees Celsius and below!

2023-10-09 2023-10-09T20:16:23Z
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The coldest city in the world...50 degrees Celsius and below!

Arab Weather - Many countries and cities in which temperatures in the winter reach below zero degrees Celsius, but if temperatures drop to less than minus 50 degrees Celsius, it is considered a rare event, and in limited areas of the world, but there is a city in Russia that drops There are temperatures below that! This city is Yakutsk . Meteorologists say that the temperature in the coldest city in the world dropped to minus 62.7 degrees Celsius this year.

 

Yakutsk is one of the cities of Russia, located in eastern Siberia. This city is considered the coldest on the face of the Earth among the major cities in the world. The coldest month in it is January, with the average temperature in January reaching minus 38.6 degrees Celsius. In winter, residents wear many hats and gloves, so that their limbs do not freeze. When temperatures drop below minus forty degrees Celsius, residents may feel that their eyelashes are freezing due to frost.

 

It is characterized by long, bitterly cold winters and short, moderate, warm summers. Yakutsk is the largest city built on permafrost, and this city is dominated by ice, fog, and dry air.

 

The scientific website “Live Science” reports that although Yakutsk is the coldest city in the world, there are other places that are less densely populated and permanently inhabited and are colder, such as the Russian town of Oymakon, which has a population of about 500 people, and recorded minus 71.2 degrees Celsius in 1924.

 

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.
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