A Thermometer Just Broke At -62°C (-80°F) In The World’s Coldest Village, And The Photos Are Breathtaking

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Welcome to Oymyakon, 

a village where students are expected to attend class till temperatures reach minus -52°C (-62°F). The remote Siberian village is considered to be the coldest permanently inhabited settlement in the world, and it has just plummeted into a -62°C (-80°F) winter, making our daily complaints about the weather sound rather silly.We already introduced you this place when a photographer Amos Chapple traveled there to brave the freeze. “I was wearing thin trousers when I first stepped outside into -47°C (-52°F),” Chapple said. “I remember feeling like the cold was physically gripping my legs, the other surprise was that occasionally my saliva would freeze into needles that would prick my lips.”This time, however, the cold is even stronger, not only gripping legs but turning people’s eyelashes into icicles as well. The official weather station at the ‘pole of cold’ registered -59°C (-74°F), but the new electronic thermometer claimed the weather was -62°C (-80°F). In fact, it even stopped working after reaching the painful mark. Some of the 500 locals go beyond that, claiming the temperatures are as low as -68°C (-90°F).In the 1920s and 1930s, Oymyakon was a stopover for reindeer herders who would water their flocks from the thermal spring. In attempts to force its nomadic population into putting down roots, the Soviet government later transformed the site into a permanent settlement. In 1933, a temperature of -67.7°C (−89.9°F) was recorded in the village, accepted as the lowest ever in the Northern Hemisphere.Welcome to Oymyakon, a remote Siberian village which is considered to be the coldest permanently inhabited settlement in the world

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The temperature there has just plummeted to a chilling -62°C (-80°F)

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In the village, however, the cold that could freeze your eyeballs hasn’t stopped life

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Except for local students who are expected to attend class till temperatures reach at least minus -52°C (-62°F)

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And, believe it or not, people are still going to work

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Wao nice pic dear

No need just need your upvote

I cant live there for a minute, dont know how they survive. Superhumans!

climate conditions determine people's way of life. It's a place that provides this promise. Life is very hard. You are beautifully explained. Congratulations.

The photos are so beautiful, but it is so cold I willl not survive it.

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