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Situated in the interior of Alaska, at 6168 meters of altitude, I think it's the coldest spot in the Northern Hemisphere. In 4600 meters of altitude, it recorded a temperature of -100 °F (-73 °C). So it would be colder higher. What do you think?
Situated in the interior of Alaska, at 6168 meters of altitude, I think it's the coldest spot in the Northern Hemisphere. In 4600 meters of altitude, it recorded a temperature of -100 °F (-73 °C). So it would be colder higher. What do you think?
Colder than Oymyakon but it does not have a permanent settlement and also too far above sea level to breathe without supplemental oxygen unless already acclimated to high altitudes; therefore I still think Oymyakon is better to use in climate battles regarding the most extreme cold that has a permanent population.
Greenland Ice Cap High Point is also extremely cold. It's less than 3,500 m altitude, but the surroundings is colder and almost flat. Probably coldest further north on the Greenland Ice Cap, as is further away from the Atlantic.
The summit of Mount McKinley is, in terms of annual average, definetely the coldest spot in the Northern Hemisphere, and the coldest spot in the world outside Antarctica.
The location of the coldest possible temperature is, however, a bit harder to determine. The reading of -73.5ºC is a bit odd. It's perfectly possible if recorded in a sinkhole/depression high there, but not in the slopes of the mountain. Temperatures at the summit are unlikely to get colder that this, though. The site proposed to get the coldest temps for the Northern Hemisphere is a small plateau located over 5,000 metres at Mount Logan, Canada, where values close to -80ºC might be recorded.
There is a very good work in progress to determine the coldest spots in each continent. Hopefully we'll see it soon.
The summit of Mount McKinley is, in terms of annual average, definetely the coldest spot in the Northern Hemisphere, and the coldest spot in the world outside Antarctica.
The location of the coldest possible temperature is, however, a bit harder to determine. The reading of -73.5ºC is a bit odd. It's perfectly possible if recorded in a sinkhole/depression high there, but not in the slopes of the mountain. Temperatures at the summit are unlikely to get colder that this, though. The site proposed to get the coldest temps for the Northern Hemisphere is a small plateau located over 5,000 metres at Mount Logan, Canada, where values close to -80ºC might be recorded.
There is a very good work in progress to determine the coldest spots in each continent. Hopefully we'll see it soon.
Great! Maybe there's somewhere in Antarctica (maybe Dome A or Vinson Massif) that is colder than Vostok Station, too! A -93 °C reading was recorded in the Antarctic Plateau by the satellites but that's not reliable.
greenland has -69.6C as a record low, reported from the former brittish research station clinck. given the sheer size of greenland, and the very sparse station net in the interior, i'd say that -75C (perhaps even lower) isn't an impossebillity
I nailed the July temperature, but had forgotten that in Alaska, the temperature is warmer at higher elevations in the winter. Therefore, the top of McKinley at 20,000 ft is the same as McKinley Park at 2,500 ft. Therefore, I should not have taken anything off the January McKinley Park weather station when extrapolating to the top of Mount McKinley.
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