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General Category => National/Breaking News => Weather => Topic started by: rangerrebew on December 14, 2023, 11:41:54 am
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WRITTEN BY PIERRE GOSSELIN ON DEC 12, 2023. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
Russia Reels From -76°F Cold Blast, Munich Breaks December Snow Record
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Extreme cold has set in across most of Russia’s 17.1 million km² (10.63 million square miles) territory, the third year in a row that the country has suffered from severe frost in early December: -61.1°C (-77.98°F) in Delyankir on December 8, 2021, and -61°C (-77.80°F) in Oymyakon on December 12, 2022. [emphasis, links added]
Image: Temperature anomalies of up to -30°C below the seasonal average. Cropped at EIKE.
Lowest in 40 years
In the vast region of Yakutia (3.1 million km²), half of the weather stations there reported temperatures below -50°C (-58°F) on December 4.
In the city of Iema, an early temperature of -58.7°C (-73.66°F) was recorded on December 5, the lowest December temperature in the city for more than 40 years.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/russia-reels-from-76f-cold-blast-munich-breaks-december-snow-record/