Last nights minimum:
24688 Ojmjakon(741m),Siberia -60.2 °c
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Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

On Jan 20, 10:10*am, "Keith (Southend)"
wrote:
Last nights minimum:
24688 Ojmjakon(741m),Siberia * * -60.2 °c
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Keith (Southend)http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

That's cold, even for Ojmjakon, where the mean min for Jan
is about -52°C. But -60°C is reached most winters. Oddly enough,
Jakutsk has warmed up to -38° in the last day or two. Maybe "OVC200"
has something to do with it but the cloud must be very thin and in any
case seems to be reported every day when the sky is visible at all.
This is about half of all days in midwinter, the rest having fog, much
of it produced by the city itself, it seems.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

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On Jan 20, 10:10 am, "Keith (Southend)"
wrote:
Last nights minimum:
24688 Ojmjakon(741m),Siberia -60.2 °c

That's cold, even for Ojmjakon, where the mean min for Jan
is about -52°C. But -60°C is reached most winters. Oddly enough,
Jakutsk has warmed up to -38° in the last day or two. Maybe "OVC200"
has something to do with it but the cloud must be very thin and in any
case seems to be reported every day when the sky is visible at all.
This is about half of all days in midwinter, the rest having fog, much
of it produced by the city itself, it seems.
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Interesting article on life in Jakutsk at -50°C in Monday's Independent
http://travel.independent.co.uk/euro...cle3354046.ece

Colin Youngs
Brussels