Pole of Cold

With cold pole is defined as the area of a celestial body in which the lowest temperatures occur or occurred.

On Earth, the cold pole of the planet's surface, a continent or State can be determined and shown with isotherms.

Global Cold Pole of the Earth

The global Cold Pole, where the deepest ever meteorologically measured temperature of the whole earth was measured (also referred to as absolute cold pole ):

• -89.2 ° C on 21 July 1983 at the research station Vostok station in Antarctica ( confirmed value, so cold pole for the entire Earth's surface )

Per satellite observation a floor surface temperature was for a range of Antarctic near Dome A for August 10, 2010 determined from -93.2 ° C, but not measured meteorologically. The value was rejected by the World Meteorological Organization due to the method.

Kältepol all inhabited areas of the earth

The cold pole of all occupied areas of the world where the lowest ever recorded temperature of all permanent or permanently inhabited areas of the earth was measured, is also known as a secondary cold pole. The title share two places ( officially recognized values ​​):

• Oymyakon in north- eastern Siberia (Yakutia, Russia): -67.8 ° C (February 6, 1933)
• Verkhoyansk in north- eastern Siberia (Yakutia, Russia): -67.8 ° C ( February 5, 1892 and 7 February 1892)

Other very cold regions of the earth

Occasionally, local or regional areas are commonly referred to as " cold pole ". Often, the sinks are in the midst of a higher lying around, so that when inversion conditions, the cold air there, the warmer displaced upward as the Bavarian Funtensee is the case at 1601 m, where 2001 -45.9 ° C were measured in December. Comparable places in Switzerland La Brevine, the so-called " Siberia of Switzerland " in the Neuchâtel Jura, with -41.8 ° C on 12 January 1987, and the Glattalp with -52.5 ° C on February 7, 1991.