Watch: temperature in Siberia drops to lowest in 21 years

Temperatures in Russia's Yakutsk in east Siberia have plunged to -62.7 degrees Celsius, making it the coldest day in Russia in more than two decades.

The weather agency in Russia’s Yakutia region said a temperature of -62.7 degrees Celsius was recorded at Tongulakh at 9 am on 18 January 2023, breaking the station’s all-time low for the third time this month, BNO News said in a report.

The lowest temperature ever recorded in Russia was -67.8°C (-90.0°F), which happened two times, first in 1892 and then in 1933. This was also the world’s lowest temperature ever recorded in a populated region.