Oymyakon - Russia Traditional Cache
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Oymyakon is a rural locality in Oymyakonsky District, Sakha Republic, Russia.
Oymyakon, population 500, is in eastern Yakutia at approximately 750 meters above sea level. At the village's northerly position, day length varies from 3 hours in December to 21 hours in June.
With an extreme subarctic climate , Oymyakon is known as one of the candidates for the "Northern Pole of Cold", the other being the town of Verkhoyansk. The ground there is permanently frozen (continuous permafrost).
On February 6, 1933, a temperature of -67.7 C(-90 F) was recorded at Oymyakon's weather station. This is the lowest recorded temperature for any permanently inhabited location on Earth. It is also the lowest temperature recorded in the Northern Hemisphere. Only Antarctica has recorded lower official temperatures (the lowest being -89.2 C (-128.6 F), recorded at Vostok Station on 21 July 1983.)
Sometimes the temperature drops below 0deg C (32deg F) in late September and may remain negative until mid-May. In Oymyakon sometimes the average minimum temperature for January, February and December remains below -50deg C (-58deg F). Sometimes summer months can also be quite cold, but June and July are the only months where temperature has never dropped below -10degC (14deg F). Oymyakon and Verkhoyansk are the only two permanently inhabited places in the world that have recorded temperatures below -60.0deg C (-76deg F) for every day in January.
Oymyakon has never recorded an above freezing temperature between October 25 and March 17.
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