Finally divulged – Central Greenland now holds the record for extreme cold in entire Northern Hemisphere

Uncovered after 30 years.

23 Sep 2020 – Thanks to the keen eyes of a weather records researcher, we now know – quite belatedly – that a weather station near the summit of the Greenland Ice Sheet measured a temperature of -69.6°C (-93.3°F) on December 22, 1991.

Klinck, located at 72°18’N and 40°28’W, at an altitude of 3,105 m, is the new record holder for coldest temperature in the Northern Hemisphere. Credit: WMO (background image provided by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio)

This easily bests the previous record of -67.8°C (-90.0°F), set in Russia at Verkhoyansk in February 1892 and again in Oymyakon in January 1933.

This new record, set at an automated weather station named Klinck, was confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Wednesday.

“The coldest recorded temperature in the world still stands at -89.2°C (-128.6°F), set on July 21, 1983, at the Vostok weather station in Antarctica,” according to this article by Scott Sutherland.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/greenland-set-record-extreme-cold-191500906.html

Thanks to Jack Hydrazine for this link

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October 5, 2020 at 03:30PM