On Sunday, China’s northernmost city of Mohe saw the temperature dip to minus-63.4 degrees (minus-53 Celsius). That’s the coldest temperature measured in the country during modern times, the local meteorology bureauconfirmed.
Nestled near Russian Siberia, Mohe is an unusual location in China with a subarctic climate. While this city of nearly 85,000 is typically cold, the chill over the weekend was truly exceptional — or approximately 36 degrees (20 Celsius) below normal.
The low temperature was recorded by an automated temperature sensor; it surpassed the previous national record of minus-62.1 (minus-52.3 Celsius) from 1969.
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So it smashed the all time low record in China by 1.3 degrees. Just another major land mass not following the script.