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23rd Jan 2014

Pic Of The Day: Ice, Ice, Baby… Take A Look At The Coldest City On Earth

This gave us the chills.

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Yesterday our ‘pic of the day’ was taken in central Japan where temperatures had plummeted, and today we’ve found another image that gave us the chills. 

This  next photograph was captured in a place that is considered to be the world’s coldest city, and judging by the vast amount of ice dangling from electric cables, we’re not going to argue with that.

Frost-encrusted house in Yakutsk. Located on permanently frozen tundra, Yakutsk is considered to be

This frost-encrusted two storey home is located in Yakutsk, a far eastern city in Russia that is permanently frozen.

A local woman enters Preobrazhensky Cathedral in a swirl of freezing mist.

Temperatures in the city regularly dive below -50C, something that the locals there have grown accustomed to.

There we were giving out about Storm Christine a few weeks back… as the saying goes, ‘we don’t know how good we have it.’

Images via The Guardian.