10 COLDEST Temperatures Ever Recorded On Earth!

 If you’ve ever experienced temperatures below freezing and thought “it can’t possibly get any colder” some of the places on this list might take exception, and if you have ever been to any of them we would be surprised if you weren’t still thawing out.

 Here is our list of the 10 coldest temperatures ever naturally recorded in the world.

 #10.

 “Roger’s Pass, Montana: -70.6°F”- On January 20th, 1954 Roger’s Pass in Montana set a record for the coldest temperature ever recorded in the continental United States.

 The Rocky Mountain passageway that spans the Continental divide is the most common route between the towns of Missoula and Great Falls, Montana.

 The pass was originally surveyed by the Great Northern railroad as a candidate for the location of the their transcontinental railway.

 Due to its location on the Continental divide the area is known for its extreme weather, but on this day in early 1954 it reached its most extreme.

 The pass received an astounding 64 inches of snow and the lucky people of the mining camp who recorded the temperature noted that there cabin popped and creaked throughout the night, unable to adjust to the temperature.

 #9.

 “Uvs Lake , Mongolia: -72.4°F”- At the saltwater Lake Uvs of the Great Lakes region in western Mongolia, the lowest temperature in Asia outside of Russia, was recorded in 1974.

 The region is located in the windswept steppe region and is home to one of Central Asia’s largest watersheds.

 The Lake is primarily a giant wild-life habitat, home to the endangered snow leopard and over 150 species of bird.

 Historically it was a common stopping places for wandering tribes from Attila’s huns to early Turks.

 These tribes hopefully didn’t encounter temperatures that reached this all-time low, but surely had to deal with a wide range of extremes.

 From October all the way into May the Lake completely freezes over and on the flip-side the surrounding Uvs Nuur Basin has risen up to 104 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer.

 #8.

 “Ust-Shchuger , Komi Republic, Russia: -72.58°F”On the last day of 1978, the small village of Ust-Shchuger rang in the New Year with the coldest weather ever recorded in Europe.

 The ancient village which lies in the Russian federal subject, The Komi Republic is located on the junction of the Shchuger and Pechora Rivers and was once an outpost for those traveling up river into Siberia.

 Surrounded by the thick forest of Yugyd Va National Park and the treacherous Ural Mountains it’s no wonder that Catherine the Great once used the Komi Republic as a penal colony.

 The quiet town also has the distinction of being the coldest inhabited place in Europe.

 #7.

 “Prospect Creek, Alaska: -79.78°F”- On January 23rd, 1971 the coldest temperature ever recorded in the United States just barely missed reaching -80, surpassing Roger’s Pass by almost ten degrees!

 The former settlement of Prospect Creek lies just south of Gates of the Arctic National Park and inside of the Innoko Mining District and area known for its gold mining operations.

 On that day workers who lived at the Prospect Creek Camp who were working on the trans-Alaskan pipeline observed this record low--the highest temperature recorded for the whole day was -64!

 In the 1990s, the settlement was abandoned and all that remains now besides a pipeline pump station, is a lone air-strip and gravel landing pad which is seldom used.

 #6.

 “Snag, Yukon, Canada: -81.4°F”- February 3rd, 1947 has the distinction of being the coldest day in Canadian history.

 An intense cold-front entered the country by way of Siberia and literally froze people’s breath as they exhaled, their mouths’ moisture turning to instant man-made snow.

 The coldest of it was recorded in the small town of Snag located in the White River valley of Canada’s subarctic Yukon region.

 The town was originally founded as part of the Klondike Gold Rush and in 1947 had a population of 25 citizens most of whom worked at a military airfield.

 The air was so cold that it caused a unique sound phenomenon in which a temperature inversion forced sound waves downward instead of their usual upward trajectory, resulting in sounds that started miles away being heard as if the sources were right next to each other.

 The sound of the cracking ice in the White River apparently sounded as if it were an explosion.

 The people of Snag isolated due their planes not working and trapped in a dense ice-fog, were well-prepared and all survived even though at that temperature it would only take three-minutes for exposed skin to freeze.

 Another nearby town, Fort Selkirk--not to be outdone--reported a low of -85 degrees but the claim went unconfirmed.

 #5.

 “North Ice, Greenland: -86.98°F”- On January 9th, 1954 the North Ice station, part of the British North Greenland expedition recorded the coldest temperature in North American history.

 The two year long expedition into Northern Greenland led by Commander James Simpson of the Royal Navy was made in the name of science.

 The North Ice station was set-up in north-central Greenland in what is today the primarily uninhabited Northeast Greenland National Park.

 The group set-out to study the unique terrain and conduct experiments in geology, glaciology and the effects of cold on the human body and report their results back to the British military.

 Needless to say they benefited from the perfect extreme on this occasion.

 Throughout their time at the station the scientists also recorded temperatures below -75 degrees on 16 different days.

 #4.

 “Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon , Sakha Republic, Russia: -90.04°F”- Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon of Russia’s Sakha Republic have been in competition for the world’s coldest cities for almost two-hundred years.

 Both cities on separate occasions have recorded the lowest temperatures for non-scientific settlements at -67.8 degrees Celsius.

 However, different sources say that Verkhoyansk is only credited with -67.6 and Oymyakon is the true champion with -67.7, these equate to less than a one degree difference when converted to Fahrenheit.

 In comparison to the other places on this list both of these towns actually have significant populations: Oymyakon with an estimated population of 500 and Verkhoyansk with 1,311.

 Because of their record lows these two towns are considered the northern Poles of Cold a designation reserved for the coldest places in the northern hemisphere.

 Not only does it get extremely cold in these towns the two are also known as being two of the three places with the highest variance in recorded temperature both holding a 100 degree difference between all-time highs and lows.

 Verkhoyansk officially has the title of place with the greatest temperature range in the world as the highest temperature ever recorded there was 99.1°F in July of 1988.

 #3.

 “Dome A, Antarctica: -116.5°F”- We reach a new echelon of cold in our countdown as we move to the giant frozen wasteland of Antarctica.

 In July of 2005 at Dome A also known as Dome Argus, located at the highest part of the Eastern Antarctic ice shield recorded a temperature of less than -115 degrees Fahrenheit.

 Dome A sits at 4,092.5 meters above sea level and the nearby ice is over 2,400 meters thick.

 The weather at Dome A is considered timid and has a strange inversion effect during the winter, making the air closer to the ground the coldest and only a few meters higher sometimes 32 degrees warmer.

 Dome A also sits in a true desert with a yearly average rainfall of less than 0.4 inches of snow.

 Because the site is still extremely new, having only been built in 2005, scientists speculated that this site may be the heir-apparent to the coldest place in the world.

 They believe temperatures here could eventually reach as low as -150 degrees!

 #2.

 “Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, South Pole: -117.04°F”- Named after the legendary explorers who first made it to the South Pole, Roald Amundsen (1911) and Robert F. Scott (1912), the Amundsen-Scott Station was first built in 1957.

 It reached its record low temperature on June, 23rd 1982.

 In the winter the station is home to around fifty scientists and their support staff, who live in isolation from the middle of February until the end of October.

 In the short summer months up to 150 people work there.

 The average daily temperature is around -56.2 degrees and the highest temperature ever recorded was 9.9 degrees, ironically on Christmas Day.

 The station is home to scientific research of all kinds and along with the aforementioned Dome A is considered one of the best places on the planet for astronomical discovery.

 #1.

 “Vostok Station, Antarctica: -128.56°F”On July 21st, 1983 the coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was registered by the then Soviet, Vostok Station.

 The station sits around 800 miles to the East of the South Pole and close to the Geomagnetic South Pole.

 The site is small in comparison to the South Pole Station with around 30 researchers living there in the summer and less than 20 in the Antarctic winter.

 The average temperature at the site is -67.2 degrees and the highest temperature ever recorded was a meager 10 degrees.

 The coldest temperature when factoring in wind chill was almost -200 degrees!

 This was recorded in August of 2005.

 Around the turn of the century Russian scientists discovered one of the largest lakes on Earth beneath the ice sheet that the station sits on.

 Some of the most intriguing research done here is that of their search for life in the icy depths.

 Vostok Station is widely considered to be one of the most difficult places for humans to live.

 Factors that play into this classification are its 85 continuous days of night during the winter, its elevation of almost 11,500 feet--making oxygen very scarce, and wind-speeds that can reach up to 60 miles per hour.

 These conditions make it extremely difficult for new workers to get adjusted to, causing them to suffer from everything from nausea and migraines to nose-bleeds and the feeling of being suffocated.