Minus 70 degree frost hits Yakutia
Published: 22 December, 2008, 14:10
TAGS: Russia
Temperatures in the Yakut settlement of Oimyakon in Russia’s Far East fell to a freezing minus 60 degrees centigrade on Sunday night.
The Oimyakon settlement is one of the cold poles of the Northern hemisphere. At he same time, thermometers in the second cold pole – the city of Verkhoyansk, 600 km away from Oimyakon – registered minus 55 degrees, according to the Yakut weather bureau.
The Federal Hydro Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring Service predicts temperatures as low as 70 degrees below zero in Oimyakon. The bitter cold will remain until the weekend when things are expected to “warm up” to minus 48 degrees at night and a daytime minus 41 over the New Year.
In Yakutsk yesterday, the temperature was minus 47 degrees, ITAR-TASS reported.
22.12.2008, 14:09
Germany slates `neo-Nazi` number platesThe use of personalized car number plates in Germany has come under scrutiny as an increasing number of such plates are being used as a tool to express neo-Nazi sympathies. |
22.12.2008, 14:46
Arsenal gunning for ArshavinRussia’s most wanted footballer, Andrey Arshavin, may move to England and join Arsenal this January, according to a report in Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper. |
