Coldest Place On Earth Where Temperature Falls To -93.2°C

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Delhi and large parts of North India are experiencing severe cold and the temperature has fallen to single digit

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This is the winter season in northern hemisphere when the Earth's axis is oriented away from the Sun due to its tilt

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But temperature in India is nothing compared to some of the coldest places on the planet, which have broken records

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Dome Fuji in Antactrica recorded the lowest-ever temperature of -93.2°C in August 2010, according to the BBC

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Then comes the Vostok Research Station in Antarctica, which recorded a temperature of -89.2°C in 1983

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Alaska is home to Denali, another record-setter when it comes to low temperature with -73.8°C in 1950s

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Verkhoyansk in Russia comes next where mercury fell to -69.8°C in February 1982

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The village of Snag in Canada's Yukon saw the temperature falling to -62.7°C in February 1947

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These coldest places are barely survivable for humans and ordinary thermometers don't work there

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Your skin, if exposed, would freeze within minutes and the droplets in your breath turn to crystals as you exhale

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