8 Coldest Place In The World

1. International Fall, Minnesota 

International Fall, Minnesota, USA is known as the coldest point of the 48 U.S. state. A city of about 7,000 people has a average temperature of 36.4 ° F (2 ° C). The average temperature during the months of December, January, and February is below zero. At the local festival called "icebox Festival" held a competition such as snowmobile races, snow sculpting, bowling with frozen turkeys, and the championship "Freeze Yer Gizzard Blizzard Run. "Race in the snow or there is a 5K there is also a 10k. Other cities, Fraser, Colorado also claims his city the nickname the "icebox of the Nation" or language kitanya "refrigerator State". Both cities fight it in court, and the final decision with the registration number 3375139 issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the International Fall entitled to this epithet. In addition to the lowest temperature ever recorded was -40 ° F or -40 ° C

2. Umiat, Alaska 

Umiat, Alaska is the coldest place in the United States, with an average temperature of 10.1 ° F or about 12 ° C. Temperature at Umiat can reach about 70 ° F (about 21 ° C) in the summer, and tau senidirlah reply in winter. Population of about 5 people (maybe only consists of researchers working on it) with no permanent population. We can follow the weather conditions here through Umiat Air Field online.

3. Snag 

Snag is a place where the lowest temperature ever recorded in North America. On February 3, 1947, weather forecasters add another strip with a mark on the thermometer, because the mercury at the bottom of the strip meter to the lowest rate. When the thermometer marked kembalai found that the temperature reads -81.4 ° F (-63 ° C). At temperatures as low temperature, the voices could be heard as far as four miles. Steam breath froze in the air for up to 15 minutes, making it easy to find where someone is gone.

4. Northice Station

The coldest place in the western hemisphere is Greenland, although historically this section is an area that includes Europe. Northice Research Station is located in the center of the Greenland Ice Sheet recorded a temperature of -87 ° F (-66 ° C) on January 9, 1954.

5. Yakutsk

Yakutsk, the capital of Yakutia region in Siberia, which has the population of 200,000 people claim to be the coldest city on earth. In January, the daily temperature averages about -58 ° F (-50 ° C). Residents often leave their cars to live day to ensure they can go home, fear of freezing time fuel yes. Also warned not to wear sunglasses outdoors, maybe glasses that will stick in our faces and our skin when menggoyakkan partially released.

6. Verkhoyansk

Verkhoyansk, in the Yakutia, Siberia, lies within the Arctic Circle, an eight-day drive from Yakutsk. But you can only get there in the winter, when the lake freezes, because there is no other way! 1,300 people live in Verkhoyansk, the biggest part of them, wearing reindeer for their vehicles manarik and lived as hunter furry animals. This area has abundant natural resources, including gold, but it was too cold to develop mining here. The picture above was taken at the "Pole of Cold" in Verkhoyansk. With mammoth ivory that made monument. The temperature was recorded at Verkhoyansk Weather Station showed a record minus 72 degrees Celsius, and the average temperature in January is minus 49 degrees Celsius. Unfortunately, in addition to the name of the city near Oimyakon also tried to get the right nickname as the "Pole of Cold", on the basis of an official record of minus 78 degrees Celsius.
This area also has a nickname as "Stalin's Death Ring" ring of death or Stalin.

7. Oymyakon

Oymyakon, another village which is located in Yakutia, Russia also claimed to be the coldest place in the northern hemisphere. In the Sakha language (ethnic Russian), Oymyakon means "water that is not frozen", because of the hot springs in the middle of the permafrost (soil that contained in the frozen area, which is not always covered in snow, CMIIW deh). On January 26, 1926, the temperature at Oymayakon recorded -96.2 ° F (-71.2 ° C). There is a rebuttal to these numbers because there is no measure obtained through a better reference than the size of the thermometer directly. Are like Snag in Canada, Oymyakon located on the basin among the mountains, which trap cold air. Temperature in winter is often lower than -50 ° F (46 ° C) or about -76 ° F (60 °).

8. Vostok Station

In the southern hemisphere, there was no argument about the coldest place. The coldest temperature ever recorded on land recorded at Vostok Station, heading inland Russian research in Antarctica. On July 21, 1983, the thermometer recorded a temperature of-128, 6 ° F (-89.2 ° C). Adding to the impression that the Russians are the ones who stand the cold.

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