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.
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.
In
The village of Oymyakon – Thermometer failure.
One of the coldest inhabited places on earth,
state-owned Russian television showed the mercury falling to the bottom of a
thermometer that was only set up to measure down to minus 50 degrees. In 2013,
Oymyakon recorded an all-time low of minus 71 degrees Celsius (minus 98
Fahrenheit).
Over the weekend, two men froze to death
when they tried to
walk to a nearby farm after their car broke down. Three other men with them
survived because they were wearing warmer clothes, investigators reported.
But the press office for Yakutia's governor
said Tuesday that all households and businesses in the region have working
central heating and access to backup power generators.
Residents of Yakutia are no strangers to freezing
weather and this week's cold spell was not even dominating local news headlines
Tuesday.
But some media outlets published cold-weather
selfies and stories about stunts in the extreme cold. Women posted pictures of
their frozen eyelashes, while YakutiaMedia published a picture of Chinese
students who got undressed to take a plunge in a thermal spring.
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