What is the coldest place on Earth?

Where is the coldest place on Earth?
  • Eastern Antarctic Plateau, Antarctica (-94°C) ...
  • Vostok Station Antarctica (-89.2°C) ...
  • Amundsen-Scott Station, Antarctica (-82.8°C) ...
  • Denali, Alaska, United States of America (-73°C) ...
  • Klinck station, Greenland (-69.6°C) ...
  • Oymyakon, Siberia, Russia (-67.7°C)
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What is the coldest place on Earth right now?

With 11/15 spots going to Canadian regions, there's certainly no signs of a mild fall season in the territories! Taking the prize as “the coldest place on Earth” right now is the South Pole in Antarctica, where temperatures are currently sitting at a cool -38.
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What is the 10 coldest place on Earth?

The 10 Coldest Places in the World
  1. Vostok Station, Antarctica.
  2. Snag, Yukon Territory. ...
  3. North Ice, Greenland. ...
  4. Oymyakon, Russia. ...
  5. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. ...
  6. Prospect Creek, Alaska. ...
  7. Verkhoyansk, Russia. ...
  8. Amundsen-Scott Station, South Pole. ...
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How cold was the coldest place on Earth?

The lowest natural temperature ever directly recorded at ground level on Earth is −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F; 184.0 K) at the Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica on 21 July 1983 by ground measurements.
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Is Antarctica colder than Russia?

Antarctica takes the title for the top 4 coldest places on earth, but Russia and Greenland aren't far behind Alaska, with lows of -69.8°C (-93°F) and -69.4°C (-92.9°F) respectively. Antarctica may be cold, but it's far from the coldest environment humans have endured.
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How cold is Mars?

Temperatures on Mars average about -81 degrees F. However, temperatures range from around -220 degrees F. in the wintertime at the poles, to +70 degrees F.
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What is the coldest city in America?

Research from website 24/7 Wall St. found that Fairbanks, Alaska, is the coldest city in the U.S. with the minimum average temperature in the coldest month a bone-chilling -16.9° F. The lowest temperature ever recorded there is -66° F.
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How cold can a human body survive?

At 82 F (28 C) you can lose consciousness. Below 70 F (21 C), you are said to have profound hypothermia and death can occur, Sawka said.
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Can your lungs freeze in Antarctica?

The bottom line: There is no risk you will freeze your lungs running anywhere on Earth.
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How cold was the ice age?

Tierney is lead author of a paper published today in Nature that found that the average global temperature of the ice age was 6 degrees Celsius (11 F) cooler than today. For context, the average global temperature of the 20th century was 14 C (57 F).
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Is Alaska colder than Canada?

Canada is colder than the U.S on average as well as the lowest temperature of all times. However, some places in the USA, such as Alaska is colder than some places in Canada, such as Toronto to name one such place.
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Is absolute zero Possible?

Physicists acknowledge they can never reach the coldest conceivable temperature, known as absolute zero and long ago calculated to be minus 459.67°F.
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What's the hottest place on Earth?

Death Valley holds the record for the highest air temperature on the planet: On 10 July 1913, temperatures at the aptly named Furnace Creek area in the California desert reached a blistering 56.7°C (134.1°F). Average summer temperatures, meanwhile, often rise above 45°C (113°F).
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Where is it hottest right now?

Heat wave 2021: World's hottest places right now
  • Nuwaiseeb, Kuwait. ...
  • Iraq. ...
  • Iran. ...
  • Jacobabad, Pakistan. ...
  • UAE, Oman, Saudi Arabia. ...
  • Lytton, Vancouver. ...
  • Portland, US. ...
  • Delhi, India.
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Which pole is colder?

Both the Arctic (North Pole) and the Antarctic (South Pole) are cold because they don't get any direct sunlight. However, the South Pole is a lot colder than the North Pole.
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Is negative 40 cold?

At 30 below, it's like a hot iron on your exposed skin. At 40 below, it's a burning scream. At the moment, there is about a 100-degree temperature differential between the air in our house and the air outside, which causes some weird things to happen.
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Does it go dark in Antarctica?

Antarctica has six months of daylight in its summer and six months of darkness in its winter. The seasons are caused by the tilt of Earth's axis in relation to the sun. The direction of the tilt never changes.
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Can your eyeballs freeze?

The answer; not really BUT it is ill advised to force your eyes open in excessively frigid temperatures especially with gusty winds as your cornea can freeze or your contact lenses can freeze to your eyeball.
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How cold is it in space?

According to data from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, the temperature of space is 2.725K (2.725 degrees above absolute zero).
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Can you freeze in your sleep?

In sleep paralysis, you wake up before your brain stem, which stops your muscles from moving while you're asleep, realizes it's awake. As a result, it continues sending neurotransmitters that tell your muscles to freeze. Scientists still don't know why this happens.
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Can you freeze to death in your car?

You can survive a long time in cold vehicle (even at -40°C with no survival kit). You may get really cold, but you will not freeze to death. Another vehicle will be along sooner than you would think.
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What happens if your blood freezes?

As the blood is redirected away from the extremities, these parts of the body get colder, and fluid in the tissue can freeze into ice crystals. The ice crystals can cause severe cell and tissue damage in the affected area. The low blood flow also deprives the tissues of oxygen.
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Does it snow in Africa?

Snow is an almost annual occurrence on some of the mountains of South Africa, including those of the Cedarberg and around Ceres in the South-Western Cape, and on the Drakensberg in Natal and Lesotho.
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Where is hottest in USA?

Death Valley is famous as the hottest place on earth and driest place in North America. The world record highest air temperature of 134°F (57°C) was recorded at Furnace Creek on July 10, 1913.
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