Hello Michiel,

Sunday January 09 2005, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Michael Dukelsky:

 >> That would be really cool. In both senses. BTW the coldest
 >> place is not in the pole but in the Oimyakon region in the
 >> north east of Russia. Though it is inside the arctic circle
 >> it is not the extreme north, but somewhere near latitude 70ø
 >> north. The average January temperature there is -50øC (-58øF)
 >> and the minimum temperature was in the year 1926 as low as
 >> -71.2øC (-96.2øF).

 MV> Forgive me for expressing some doubt about the accuracy of that
 MV> measurement.

Let it be, I forgive you :)

 MV> In the twenties the standard thermometer was filled with
 MV> mercury and that freezes at -32. (C). While laboratory equipment to
 MV> measure temperatures that low to an acuuracy of .1 degree was
 MV> available at he time, I doubt that there was field equipment available
 MV> in Russia with that range and that accuracy.

As you understand it was not me who measured the temperature 22 years before I
was born. :) So I can say nothing about trustworthiness of the measurement. I
took the data from here: http://www.yakutiatravel.com/travdir/polus.htm

Michael

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