A Thermometer Broke At -62C (-80F) In The World's Coldest Village And People Shared Their Photos

The small village of Oymyakon in Siberia is generally acknowledged to be the coldest permanently inhabited settlement in the world. Recently, temperatures dropped to a chilly -62° C (-80° F), which kind of makes my complaints about the 0° stint we had here not long ago seem kinda…whiny.

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It’s cold enough that a new electronic thermometer stopped working, and people’s eyelashes were freezing into tiny icicles.

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Pretty, but I think I’ll leave them to it.

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In case you’re wondering, the lowest ever recorded temperature in Oymyakon was -67.7° C (-89.9° F) in 1933 – which is also the lowest temperature ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere.