10 Coldest Places On Earth!!

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10 Coldest Places On Earth!! From record setting low temps to year round miserable…stay tuned to number 1 to find out the coldest places on Earth!
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From record setting low temps to year round miserable…stay tuned to number 1 to find
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out the coldest places on Earth!
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Number 10: Rogers Pass, Montana, United States.
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Bet you weren’t expecting us to start in a place like this, right?
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After all, Montana is a state that is known for its beauty and virtually untouched nature
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(seriously, it’s one of the least populated states in the US).
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But, as in all things, location is key to the answer to this question.
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Rogers Pass isn’t a city, but instead, it’s a stretch of land next to Helena National
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Forest.
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And it’s a stretch of land where Montana Highway 200 is, which makes it very populated, and
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popular.
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In fact, it’s the best route to get between two of Montana’s big cities in Great Falls
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and Missoula.
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Its record low though was measured back in 1954, where a temperature of -70 degrees Fahrenheit
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was made.
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To be clear, that makes it the coldest place in the continental United States (which means
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excluding Hawaii and Alaska).
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-70 degrees is what you might call “instant cold”, as in, the moment you step outside,
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your body immediately starts to freeze, and you’d be wise not to be out in it.
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On the other hand, given that it’s been 65 years since that legendary cold snap, you
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might be ok going there…might…
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Number 9: Stanley, Idaho, United States.
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I know what you’re thinking, “Wait a minute, I thought the Montana place was the coldest
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place in the United States outside of Alaska?”
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And it is, if you count it solely on the record low that it had in 1954.
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However, as anyone who has been cold will tell you, there’s a difference between being
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cold for a short time, and being cold for a LONG time, and that’s why Stanley, Idaho
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is a city that you definitely want to avoid if you want to stay warm all the time.
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It’s one of the places on Earth that is known for its “extreme seasons”.
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By that, I mean that in the Summer, it gets consistently hot, like 80+ degrees.
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But then, in the winters, its average is -1 degree Fahrenheit.
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Yeah, it’s below zero there, ON AVERAGE!
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That’s cold.
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Plus, its lowest temperature ever is -54 degrees Fahrenheit.
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And so if that’s the maximum (so far), and the average is -1, that leaves a lot of leeway
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on both sides.
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What might be the biggest irony here is that Stanley is a vibrant town, it’s just that
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only 63 people live there.
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Number 8: Prospect Creek, Alaska.
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No, this wasn’t a place where gold miners were, or at least, not anymore.
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This is actually a place in Alaska that is now very much uninhabited, but don’t let that
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fool you, it once played a key role in the history of the state.
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You see, at one time, this location was a key spot in the building of the Trans-Alaskan
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Pipeline, and it required thousands of people to help make it.
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And so, all of those workers found themselves in Prospect Creek, and it wasn’t exactly the
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nicest place in the world temperature-wise.
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In January, the average temperature is a blistering -14.9 degrees Fahrenheit.
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And in 1971 (three years before work on the pipeline began), the lowest recorded temperature
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in all of the United States (all of 50 of them) was made when it dropped to -80 degrees.
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Another thing that lends to the cold temperature is the fact that it snows for months at a
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time, specifically between the months of October through April, that’s a lot of snow.
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Including times when it can snow 24 inches in the period of a month.
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You all knew Alaska was cold, but did you know it was that cold?
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Number 7: Snag, Yukon, Canada.
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Well what do you know?
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The country that stands smack dab between the continental United States and Alaska is
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also home to one of the coldest places in the world!
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What are the odds?
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Not so ironically, the Yukon of Canada is famous, and infamous for various things, including
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the Canadian Gold Rush (which is still going on right now), and yes, being one of the coldest
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places in all of the world.
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Specifically, in Snag (located in the Yukon), the temperature there once reached -81 degrees
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Fahrenheit, which makes it the coldest recorded temperature in all of North America.
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Here’s a fun little story about that record though.
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On February 2nd, 1947, the temperature reached -80 degrees, and then the very next day it
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reached -81 degrees.
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Both days setting records for how cold it was.
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Could you imagine that?
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Being in that amount of cold for back to back days?
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Especially when you consider that Snag isn’t a big city, it’s just a small little village,
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and it was likely far too cold to try and go somewhere else to get warm, or attempt
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to get warm that is.
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So it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that Snag is now deserted.
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Would you want to risk that cold snap happening again?
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I didn’t think so.
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Number 6: North Ice, Greenland.
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Here’s a little history lesson for you.
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When the Vikings were at the peak of their power, and they wanted to expand even more,
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they came to the “new world” by crossing the Atlantic.
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And when they did, they found Greenland.
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Or what would be called Greenland that is.
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Anyway, to fool their enemies, they called it Greenland and raved about its lush beautiful
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landscapes, a distinct contrast to how it actually was…an ice filled, glacier-packed,
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place that is almost as big as a continent.
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So, it’s no surprise that it, too, has a REALLY cold spot on it.
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This was found by the British actually, who made their own research post on Greenland
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called North Ice…I’m going to let that go and move on.
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Anyways, this outpost was truly built on the ice of Greenland, and it was there in the
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1950’s that they got to experience the “wonder” of -87 degree weather.
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Yep, that’s cold, and that’s what they had to deal with.
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Number 5: Oymyakon, Russia.
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Yep, another country that not so surprisingly makes it on the list, Russia!
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This place is infamous for being cold, and I’m not just talking about the people!
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I kid…mostly.
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Anyway, in the Sakha Republic, right next to the Indigirka River, you’ll find a place
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called Oymyakon.
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This town only has 500 people in it, and is considered one of the coldest inhabited places
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on the planet.
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Which is quite a feat.
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Its defining feature is that of its “subarctic climate”, meaning that it continually drops
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to temperatures that you’d expect in the coldest places on Earth.
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For example, in 1924, the temperature dropped to -71.2 degrees.
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And then, nine years later, it dropped to -90 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Yep, almost breaking the centennial mark.
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It was so cold at the time that it was believed that the only place colder was Antarctica!
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They’re not wrong in some ways.
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Number 4: Eismitte, Greenland.
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Thought we were done with Greenland?
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No, that place is far too cold to be only on the list once.
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And that’s why Eismitte has come to the list.
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And this time, it’s the average cold we need to look at.
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Because the highest average of the area is only 10 degrees Fahrenheit, and that’s in
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July.
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In contrast, February has a average cold of -53 degrees Fahrenheit.
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The only reason we even known about this place and its temperature is because of an expedition
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in the 1930’s, and that one was fraught with problems.
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Mainly, two of the leaders passed away, and another had serious injuries due to frostbite.
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Still, the temperatures were recorded, and Greenland remains very cold to this day.
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Number 3: Verkhoyansk, Russia.
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And back to the Motherland we go.
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Because Russia has another legendary cold spot to offer, this time in the form of Verkhoyansk.
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And as you’ll find out, this place is not only colder, it’s also a place that is more
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populated.
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At last census, Verkhoyansk, had around 1300 people in it.
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But what makes it legendary and infamous and a record holder is in regards to its temperature
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swings.
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It has the greatest range in regards of temperature in all the world today.
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189 degrees Fahrenheit from highest to lowest.
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But what is its lowest?
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-93.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Which makes it the coldest place in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Number 2: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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Mongolia holds a very special place in history, it was the birthplace of several legendary
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war leaders, including the Khans, Genghis and Kublai.
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But it’s also home to a place where the average temperature of the entire year is below zero.
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Yeah, forget being cold just in the winter time or season, if you go to Ulaanbaatar,
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Mongolia, you’ll find yourself looking at temperatures of -2.4 degrees Fahrenheit year
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round.
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Obviously, there are highs that get above that, but it’s known as the coldest capital
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in the world today.
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But that’s not even the craziest part.
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Ulaanbaatar is the capital of Mongolia, and there’s actually 1.2 million people living
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there right now.
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Which means there are 1.2 million people going to work, school, playing, and more in negative
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degree weather.
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And yet, Ulaanbaatar is known as one of the most cultural cities in Mongolia.
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Just goes to show that some people can brave the cold.
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Number 1: Vostok, Antarctica.
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Come on…you knew that there was only one true place to go to in order to get the coldest
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temperatures on Earth, right?
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I mean, there’s only one continent on Earth that’s completely covered in snow and ice,
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and that’s Antarctica.
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But, like all regions and places, the temperatures fluctuate during the year.
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So it’s honestly hard to tell just how cold it gets there.
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But, in 1957, Russian scientists went and made an outpost in Antarctica in the “Princess
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Elizabeth Land” part of the continent.
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This outpost was to help keep the scientists safe as they drilled for ice cores, which
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are used to further research into the history of our world.
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So, how cold is cold down in Antarctica?
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Well, according to very reliable results, this outpost (called Vostok) was able to witness
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-128.6 degree Fahrenheit weather.
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That’s right, well below -100 degrees.
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That’s freezing in every sense of the word.
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That’s enough to basically give you instant frostbite, so it’s no surprise that the scientists
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have to have super protective gear when doing ice core drilling and such.
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But here’s another thing to ponder, this is the coldest temperature that we humans have
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measured.
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Which technically means that it could possibly be colder in various parts of the world today.
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Food for thought next time you complain about being cold.
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What is the coldest temperature you’ve ever experienced?
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Let us know in the comments below and…take care!