There are places on Earth where our warmest jacket, hat and gloves certainly won't provide us with enough protection from the cold. Minus twenty degrees in some regions of the world mean quite a warm day. The temperatures there are really far from zero - towards the big minus.

See if minus temperatures impress you. You may find that these places inspire you and your next holiday will be spent in a wintry, white environment instead of on a warm beach.

Extremely low temperatures

On 21 July 1983, thermometers at the Vostok research station showed minus 89.2 degrees Celsius. Despite the passage of more than forty years, this record still stands. However, there are places where the temperature is also extremely low and yet people live there.

Verkhoyansk is a Russian town that is considered the northern cold pole. The town has a population of around 1,000. In 1892, thermometers there showed an exceptionally low temperature of minus 67.80 degrees Celsius. Interestingly, however, temperatures there reach as high as 30 degrees Celsius in summer - on the plus side!

Greenland is not the only country to boast low temperatures. In the small village of Snag on 3 February 1947, thermometers showed minus 63 degrees Celsius. The place is sometimes visited by trappers, but no one lives there permanently.

The coldest city in the world

Yakutsk is considered the coldest city in the world. It is located in north-eastern Siberia. Despite the low temperatures there - the city is the capital of Yakutia and is home to more than three hundred thousand inhabitants. Temperatures there reach around minus 60 degrees Celsius. The average temperature for this city is minus 38.6 degrees Celsius. Despite the low temperatures there, Yakutsk residents enjoy warm summer days in summer. In July, the average air temperature there is around 19.5 degrees Celsius.

900 kilometres away from Yakutsk is Ojmiakon. This town is colder, but less populous. About five hundred people live there. The lowest temperature recorded there was minus 71.2 degrees Celsius. So far, this is the lowest temperature that has been recorded in human inhabited areas.  

Lowest temperature in Poland

In Litvorowy Kotle in the Tatra Mountains, thermometers from 16 to 17 February this year showed minus 41.13 degrees Celsius. This measurement represents the lowest temperature in the history of measurements in Poland. It is estimated that even lower temperatures are possible in the coming years. The minus temperature, however, does not mean that the problem of global warming does not exist. The effects of global warming can already be seen today and they also affect our country. You can read more on this subject - Is Poland changing to a warmer climate? | Edu4Eco