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Montevideo, November 5th 2024 - 19:42 UTC

Tag: Oymyakon

  • Wednesday, January 17th 2018 - 09:23 UTC

    Minus 67 Celsisus in Russia'a Yakuta region, 5.300 kilometers east of Moscow

    A teenager selfie with her eyebrows frozen. Although even with minus 40 Celsius, schools are open in Yakutia, minus 67 was a bit too much

    Even thermometers can't keep up with the plunging temperatures in Russia's remote Yakutia region, which hit minus 67 degrees Celsius (minus 88.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas on Tuesday. In Yakutia, a region of 1 million people about 5,300 kilometers east of Moscow, students routinely go to school even in minus 40 degrees. But school was canceled on Tuesday throughout the region and police ordered parents to keep their children inside.