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Even the eyelashes freeze: Russia sees minus 88.6 degrees F
« on: January 18, 2018, 12:17:23 pm »
Even the eyelashes freeze: Russia sees minus 88.6 degrees F
 
Associated Press•January 16, 2018

MOSCOW (AP) — 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 Tuesday.

In Yakutia — a region of 1 million people about 3,300 miles (5,300 kilometers) east of Moscow — students routinely go to school even in minus 40 degrees. But school was canceled Tuesday throughout the region and police ordered parents to keep their children inside.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/big-freeze-russias-yakutia-sees-near-record-cold-131009936.html?soc_src=mail&soc_trk=ma