🌿 Earth's coldest temperature (1983)
Where: Vostok Station, Antarctica
📅 On This Day: July 21
July 21, 1983: Earth's coldest temperature. On 21 July 1983, Russia's Vostok Station in the middle of Antarctica recorded −89. 2 °C. It is the lowest natural air temperature ever measured on the ground. July is midwinter in Antarctica, so the Sun barely rises there at this time.
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🧠 Question of the day
What temperature was measured at Vostok?
- 40 °C
- −10 °C
- −89.2 °C
Show the answer
Answer: −89.2 °C
Questions
What happened on July 21?
July 21, 1983: Earth's coldest temperature. It happened in Vostok Station, Antarctica.
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