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Wikipedia defines the poles of cold as the places in each hemisphere where the coldest temperature has been recorded. So, Vostok Station for the Southern Hemisphere and either Verkhoyansk or Oymyakon for the Northern hemisphere.
Am I the only one who thinks that the poles of cold should be defined not by the lowest recorded temperature but by the lowest mean temperature?
If we use the mean, the pole of cold for the Southern hemisphere is still Vostok; but for the Northern hemisphere the pole of cold would be Eismitte.
Both Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon aren't even Tundra climates and their warmest months are warmer than the warmest month here in Esquel.
Pole of cold should mean the coldest place in each hemisphere, and when you compare two climates, you use the mean to say which is colder. Climates have two record temperatures. Using only one of those two values to compare climates makes little sense.
Eismitte because it's simply below freezing all year round. Verkhoyansk has relatively warm summers and it's just extremely continental. So it loses here.
I voted Eismitte because it's in the center of the largest ice field in the northern hemisphere. However that being said I don't think the pole of cold is stationary, and so during the winter the pole of cold shifts to Yakutia, but in the summer it shifts over to Greenland.
Eismitte is only a little bit warmer (~5C) than the other two in winter, but has a considerably lower annual mean (~15C less), so I voted for it. It'd be a tougher call comparing the Russian places to something like Alert, which has only a slightly lower annual mean but significantly "warmer" winters.
Something somewhat unrelated that I've been wondering - Oymyakon and Verkhoyansk are quite a far apart from each other and are each relatively close to some other villages. Why are those other villages never mentioned? Are they really all that much warmer? If so, why are those two, a large distance apart, so special?
Eismitte is only a little bit warmer (~5C) than the other two in winter, but has a considerably lower annual mean (~15C less), so I voted for it. It'd be a tougher call comparing the Russian places to something like Alert, which has only a slightly lower annual mean but significantly "warmer" winters.
Something somewhat unrelated that I've been wondering - Oymyakon and Verkhoyansk are quite a far apart from each other and are each relatively close to some other villages. Why are those other villages never mentioned? Are they really all that much warmer? If so, why are those two, a large distance apart, so special?
well here are all the cities/villages that I could find in Yakutia with climate data.
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