Countries with the lowest temperatures ever recorded
Climate change is not just about warm weather. In fact, it causes the extremes of both hot and cold temperatures to become stronger and the places where record cold or heat occurs more and more diverse. The World Meteorological Organization compiled a list of minimum temperature records around the world, and some of its countries are the ones you least expected.
Temperature recorded in Dome A (in the Eastern Antarctic)
Temperature recorded in the republic of Sakha, a part of the Russian Federation that is located in Asia.
Temperature measured in North Ice
Temperature recorded in Yukon
Temperature measured in Alaska
Temperature recorded in Mohe County. The town of Mohe is the northernmost city of China.
Temperature recorded in Lapland
Temperature recorded in the Dolomites mountain range
Temperature measured in Van
Temperature recorded in the Berchtesgaden National Park in Bavaria
Temperature registered in Mount Everest.
Temperature recorded in Litvínovice, Bohemia region
Temperature recorded in the province of San Juán, in the Upper Patos Valley (the Andean Valley of the Ducks, on the border of Argentina and Chile)
Temperature recorded in the Austrian Alps
Temperature recorded in the Aysén region (of General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo)
Temperature recorded in the Catalan Pyrenees, at Lake Gento
Temperature recorded in Ifrán, a town in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains
Temperature recorded in New South Wales, Charlotte Pass
Temperature recorded in the Eastern Cape
Temperature measured in the region of Santa Catarina, in the town of Caçador