If you think it's cold where you live, you clearly haven't been to the Russian town of Oymyakon. You're going to need more than a heavy winter coat if you want to stay warm in the Russian town of Oymyakon.
Welcome to the world's coldest inhabited place. It's chilly in Britain right now, but spare a thought for the residents of Oymyakon, Russia, widely recognised as the coldest inhabited place on Earth. How cold is it? Right now it's a relatively balmy −44°C.
That's how he ended up in Yakutsk, Russia. The capital city of the vast (1.2 million square miles) Siberian region known as the Sakha Republic, Yakutsk is widely identified as the world's coldest city. “No other place on Earth experiences this temperature extreme,” Iuncker says.
The weather in Canada can be quite cold. The weather in the Australian provinces and territories stays pretty warm and favourable.
Dallol, Ethiopia
Extremely remote and set in the far north of Ethiopia, Dallol is a tiny village known for setting records. It's the hottest year-round spot in the world, with the average annual high temperature coming in at a blistering 106.1 degrees F.
Mali is the hottest country in the world, with an average yearly temperature of 83.89°F (28.83°C). Located in West Africa, Mali actually shares borders with both Burkina Faso and Senegal, which follow it on the list.
Phoenix, Arizona excels at extreme hot weather. It consistently ranks number one for the most days a year when temperatures rise into the 90s or 100s Fahrenheit. It's the only large city to measure over 100 days a year of temperatures in the 100s, and over 150 days a year of at least 90 degrees.
For comparison, the coldest recorded temperature on Earth is minus 128.6 degrees Fahrenheit in Vostok, Antarctica.
Antarctica takes the title for the top 4 coldest places on earth, but Russia and Greenland aren't far behind Alaska, with lows of -69.8°C (-93°F) and -69.4°C (-92.9°F) respectively.
The lowest natural temperature ever directly recorded at ground level on Earth is −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F; 184.0 K) at the then-Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica on 21 July 1983 by ground measurements.
Therapeutic hypothermia was introduced: The body is cooled down to induce hypothermia to protect patients during open heart surgery as well as victims of strokes, seizures and liver failure. Still, 56.7 degrees is the coldest anyone has ever been and survived.
The second coldest place in the world also sits at the top of a massive ice cap, this time in Greenland. For the coldest places located on exposed dirt, northern Canada and eastern Siberia top the list.
The reason is simple: an extreme climate, too harsh even by Arctic standards. The seasonal temperature drop in Yakutia can reach 100 degrees Celsius. At the height of summer, it can get as hot as +40°C while in the middle of winter the temperature can drop as low as –60°C.
The northern part of the country has a tropical climate, varying between grasslands and desert. Australia holds many heat-related records: the continent has the hottest extended region year-round, the areas with the hottest summer climate, and the highest sunshine duration.
Is Australia hotter than India? India is closer to the equator as compared to Australia, and is therefore expected to be hotter. The average temperature in most of the interior regions of India is 90–104 °F. Whereas in Australia the average temperature in summer is 86 °F.
Australia gets more sunlight during the summer primarily because it is closer to the equator than the landmass of other English-speaking countries like the U.S. and the U.K. Also, the Earth is closer to the Sun in January (summer in the southern hemisphere) than it is in July (summer in the northern hemisphere).
Liawenee is the coldest permanently-inhabited place in Australia.
Drass, Jammu and Kashmir
Situated at an elevation of 3350 m, Drass is the coldest place in India and second to the coldest inhabited region on Earth. The average temperature during winter season goes down to -23 ºC.
Darwin, Northern Territory
It is the city in Australia with the highest average temperature and the highest average monthly maximum temperature. The driest month is July and the wettest is January.
Oodnadatta, South Australia
The record for the highest official temperature ever recorded in Australia belongs to the remote outback town of Oodnadatta in South Australia.
A wet-bulb temperature of 35 °C, or around 95 °F, is pretty much the absolute limit of human tolerance, says Zach Schlader, a physiologist at Indiana University Bloomington. Above that, your body won't be able to lose heat to the environment efficiently enough to maintain its core temperature.