Severe frosts have raged in Siberia in recent days: On Sunday, a temperature of minus 62.4°C was measured in Tongola, a city in the Sakha Republic in eastern Russia, according to reports. IFLScience.
According to the Czech Meteorological Company’s report, it has never been cold in the city, and the last time such severe frosts were documented in Siberia was in 2002. Moreover, this wasn’t the only region hit by extreme cold: degrees were measured Well below -50 degrees Celsius in many parts of the Czech Republic east of the station on Sunday.
With all this said, we weren’t far from setting the Siberian cold record over the weekend. The lowest temperature ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere was documented on February 6, 1933 in Oymyakon, Sakha Republic, when a thermometer showed -67.7°C. In the Northern Hemisphere, the weather is becoming more extreme, so large differences can be observed between winter and summer temperatures. In June 2021, 48 degrees was measured in the Siberian city of Verkhoyansk over the Arctic Circle.
If we look at the whole Earth, this weekend also in Australia The tops were slanted: For example, the thermometer showed 49.3 degrees at Onslow Airport.
