Did you go for a walk on Shabbat in the Jerusalem mountains and thought you were lying?
Think again.
Just this month minus 50 degrees Celsius were measured in the coldest city in the world: Yakutsk in Eastern Siberia.
"You can't fight it. Either you adapt and dress accordingly or you suffer," Anastasia Gruzdeva, a resident of the city, told reporters as she put on two scarves, two pairs of gloves and several hats on her head.
This city, located about 450 km south of the Arctic Circle, experiences its coldest period every January. This time, the cold hit it particularly hard. But with all due respect to Lickotsek, it's really not the coldest place on earth. The National News website compiled a list of the 10 coldest places in the world. Accept them.
On the other hand:
the hottest places in the world, including one in Israel
East Antarctic Plateau, Antarctica
In August 2010, a crazy temperature of minus 94 degrees Celsius was recorded at the East Pole level in Antarctica, which is known to be the coldest continent in the world.
In doing so, she beat the previous record set in 1983 (see below).
However, since this figure was measured by remote sensing satellites (and not by ground temperature gauges), this record is not an official world record.
Emperor penguins on the East Polar Plateau, Antarctica (Photo: ShutterStock)
Vostok Station, Antarctica
The remote Russian research station Vostok in Antarctica is considered by many to be the coldest place in the world.
In 1983, a temperature of minus 89.2 degrees Celsius was recorded there.
Beyond the fact that it is located in one of the coldest places in the world, this research station is also located in one of the sunniest places in the world.
Every December, this space gets more than 22 hours of light every day.
On the other hand, on the other side of the calendar, there are zero hours of daylight there.
Vostok Station, Antarctica (Photo: ShutterStock)
Amundsen-Scott Station, Antarctica
The Amundsen-Scott station is one of three research stations operated by the "United States Antarctic Program" and the site where the lowest temperature was recorded in the project.
The station is on a high level, about 2,835 meters above sea level.
In 1982, a temperature of minus 82.8 degrees Celsius was recorded here.
And another interesting fact: due to the shifting of the ice sheet, the research center drifts every year to a distance of about ten meters.
Amundsen-Scott Station, Antarctica (Photo: ShutterStock)
Mount Denali, Alaska
Denali is the highest mountain in North America and also one of the coldest places in the world, although its inclusion on this list may be controversial.
Mount Denali (previously called Mount McKinley) is known for its brutal winters, and it is believed that throughout history, temperatures there have reached minus 73 degrees Celsius.
These data were deduced thanks to a personal thermometer that was left on the slopes of the mountain in 1913, at an altitude of about 4,600 meters.
While the device has been tested by authorized government officials and found to be accurate, there are questions that remain unanswered, as the exact date the temperature was taken is unverified.
In any case, despite the extreme weather that prevails there, Mount Denali attracts brave, adventure-seeking tourists who flock to its slopes for skiing and mountain climbing.
Mount Denali, Alaska (Photo: ShutterStock)
Klink Station, Greenland
At the Klinck Station located on the Greenland ice sheet, the coldest temperature ever recorded in this region of the Northern Hemisphere was minus 69.6 degrees.
This figure was recorded using an automatic weather station, and was presented to the world only 30 years later.
If you are interested in getting to the place - you should know that the only way to do it is by snowmobile.
Oymyakon, Siberia (Russia)
The village of Oymyakon in Eastern Siberia is one of the coldest inhabited places in the world.
Temperatures here always drop below zero, and the village experienced its worst recorded cold in 1933, when local meteorologists measured a temperature of minus 67.7 degrees Celsius.
Beyond that, in the village square stands a monument that commemorates an unofficial temperature from January 1924, which stands at minus 71.4 degrees Celsius.
These data have not been scientifically verified.
And as already mentioned, there are those who call this frozen place "home" - there are several hundred inhabitants, and their diet consists mainly of fish and elk meat.
Another local record: this is also the place where the coldest marathon in the world took place.
This happened last year, and the runners had to perform the competition in extreme temperatures, which quickly caused their eyebrows and eyelashes to freeze during the run.
Oymyakon, Siberia (Photo: ShutterStock)
North Ice Station, Greenland
The abandoned North Ice research station in Greenland was once considered the coldest place in the Northern Hemisphere, with a temperature of minus 66.1 degrees Celsius, recorded in January 1954. As already noted, even lower temperatures have been recorded in Greenland since then, and this site no longer holds the record , but still - this is one of the coldest places in the world.
The station itself has been abandoned for 69 years.
Continental ice sheet in Greenland (Photo: ShutterStock)
Yakutsk, Eastern Siberia
As we have already mentioned, Yakutsk recently made headlines due to the extreme weather that prevailed there and made it difficult for its residents.
Despite the intense cold, the temperatures recorded there last week (minus 50) do not come close to those measured there in 1891: minus 64.4 degrees Celsius.
One way or another, this Russian city takes seriously its role as one of the coldest in the world, and even established the only museum in the world dedicated to freezing (a geological field that focuses on the ground that is at the temperature of the freezing point of water - zero degrees).
Yakutsk, Eastern Siberia (Photo: ShutterStock)
Snag, Canada
When talking about an annual average, the coldest place in Canada is Eureka in the Nunavut Territory.
However, the place where the coldest temperature in the country was recorded is Snag in the Yukon Territory, not far from the border with Alaska.
In 1947, the temperature gauge was at minus 63 degrees.
During the Second World War, Sanag had a runway for emergency landings of airplanes, and at the end of the war it had only ten inhabitants, as well as 20 particularly tough researchers.
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Prospect Creek, Alaska (United States)
This list is sealed by the town of Prospect Creek, a site that has not been inhabited since the early 1990s.
This ghost town is located below the Arctic Circle, and in January 1971 it recorded the lowest temperatures ever recorded in the United States: minus 62.1 degrees Celsius.
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