Yet short-term variations in weather, such as cold snaps — rapid drops in air temperature that result in consecutive days of colder-than-average weather — are still occurring.
To understand how record-cold events can exist in a warmer world, consider an event from winter Temperatures plunged below minus degrees Fahrenheit, with wind chills in the neighborhood of 60 degrees below zero.
How is that possible? Well, while a few U. For example, January temperatures across the western United States ranged from three to nine degrees above the normal January average, while in Australia and Asia, temperatures were seven degrees or more above normal. Such situations exemplify how cold snaps and global warming can and do coexist: Cold extremes are occurring over a smaller fraction of the global surface area than above-average temperatures.
In , it recorded its lowest temperature of This research station, set up during the British North Greenland Expedition in the s, held the record low temperature in North America at the time. In , the temperature plunged to Yakutsk is one of the coldest cities on Earth and located on permafrost.
Although the region experiences some short but warm summers, with temperatures in reaching up to In , temperatures dropped to Located along the Lena river, during the winter months it is often cold enough for the river to freeze and become strong enough to be used as a road. In , the small village of Snag in the Yukon of northwest Canada was home to around 10 First Nation people.
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