Question 1 of 15
What is the coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth?
Why: -128.6°F (-89.2°C) at Vostok Station, Antarctica, July 21, 1983.
Question 2 of 15
What is the coldest inhabited town on Earth?
Why: Oymyakon has hit -90°F; year-round about 500 residents.
Question 3 of 15
What Antarctic station holds the temperature record?
Why: Vostok Station is at 78°S in the interior.
Question 4 of 15
What's the coldest temp in the contiguous US?
Why: -70°F at Rogers Pass, Montana, January 20, 1954.
Question 5 of 15
What Alaskan region has the coldest average winter temperatures?
Why: Interior Alaska, especially around Fort Yukon and Chicken.
Question 6 of 15
What is 'polar vortex'?
Why: It weakens periodically and lets cold air spill south.
Question 7 of 15
What Canadian city consistently ranks among the coldest large cities?
Why: Winnipeg regularly sees -30°F winter mornings.
Question 8 of 15
What Siberian city is called the 'Pole of Cold'?
Why: Verkhoyansk swings 190°F between winter and summer.
Question 9 of 15
What temperature range is 'brutally cold' by NWS?
Why: -40°F is where advisories become extreme.
Question 10 of 15
Where does the temperature ever reach absolute zero?
Why: Nothing in nature reaches 0 Kelvin; it's a theoretical limit.
Question 11 of 15
What's the coldest wind chill ever officially recorded?
Why: Prospect Creek, Alaska, 1971.
Question 12 of 15
What Antarctic base is at the geographic South Pole?
Why: The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is at 90°S.
Question 13 of 15
What Canadian city holds the record for coldest reliably measured?
Why: -81°F at Snag, Yukon, February 3, 1947.
Question 14 of 15
What causes the extreme cold in Antarctic interior?
Why: Elevation plus continental interior plus polar location.
Question 15 of 15
The town of Snag in Yukon is famous for what?
Why: -81.4°F recorded in 1947 — Canadian record.