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The extreme frost wave hitting the Siberia these days in mid-January 2023: tonight the temperature went up -62.4°C to Tongulakhrural town in the East Siberia where this value is the coldest ever recorded in history. This is the all-time record for the local weather station and the lowest temperature ever recorded all of Russia since 2002 (21 years ago), the lowest ever recorded in January across Russia since 1982 (41 years ago), the lowest value recorded across the globe so far in 2023.
records also a selagonia with -60.5℃the lowest temperature since 1994 (29 years ago).
Tongulakh is a very extreme place: it is located in the innermost area of Eastern Siberia and in summer it is particularly hot compared to a latitude that sees it at first glance same parallel as Helsinki. Temperature reached in Tongulakh on July 1, 2021 +39.0 °Cwhich in this case records the absolute heat record for that location, which in less than two years has recorded both its most extreme heat and cold records by a difference of 101.4°C between the two peaks.
there Siberia is currently experiencing a major cold anomaly extending into Mongolia and Central Asia where many other cold records have been overturned Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iranwhile until yesterday it was very hot in southern China, in North Korea, South Korea and Japan, which, however, these hours are experiencing a real meteorological change with a powerful icefall coming straight from Siberia, so much so that it will snow already tonight and, more importantly, next week there will be heavy attacks on the Korean and Japanese coasts.
