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All Of Russia Is Freezing

Barring a pocket of heat in the southeast, Asia has been an ice box of late with transcontinental Russia enduring its coldest fall in decades. The cold is intensifying further this week, forecast to fell hundreds of records with lows of -60C expected.

Extreme cold has set in across Russia’s 17.1 million km² territory, making this the third consecutive year that the country has suffered a big early-Dec freeze: -61.1C (-78F) in Delyankir on Dec 8, 2021; and -61C (-77.8F) in Oymyakon on Dec 12, 2022.

Last week, -58.7C (-73.7F) hit Iema -- the city’s coldest December temperature in more than 40-years.

But Iema isn't alone; more that half of the weather stations in Yakutia (3.1 million km²) are posting sub -50C (-58F) readings.

"Cold weather has gripped most of Russia," reports Tatyana Pozdnyakova, Chief Specialist of IA Meteonovosti (hmn.ru).

"Regions where the air temperature was below -30C (-22F) are marked in purple on the map [below]. On European territory, the most severe frost on the morning of December 8 was observed in Udmurtia; in the village of Debesy it was -40.7C (-41.3F)."