You thought your winter was cold? Temperatures in the coldest city in the world have dropped to minus 50 degrees Celsius (minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit).
“You can’t fight it,” a resident told Reuters wearing two scarves and several layers of gloves, hats and balaclavas. “Either you adapt and dress accordingly or you suffer.”
According to another resident who sold frozen fish at a local market, layering was key. “Dress warm. In layers, like a cabbage,” she said.
Fish vendors Marina Krivolutskaya and Marianna Ugai pose for a photo at an outdoor market on a freezing day in Yakutsk, Russia, January 15, 2023.
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Home to less than a million people, Yakutsk’s winters can be extreme, even by Russian standards.
Scientists have expressed serious concern about the increasing frequency of fires caused by climate change in the Siberian Arctic.