View Siberian Climate in a larger map Climate data can be viewed by clicking on map icons. Average temperatures for Verkhoyansk in the table below are from the weather station in Batagay.
To provide some context for these temperatures: at 5 F high-carbon steel breaks; at -13 F unalloyed steels break; at -20 F and 5 mph winds exposed human skin freezes within 1 minute; at -35 F standard steel structures rupture; -90 F was the coldest temperature ever recorded outside of Antarctica (it was in Siberia). From Hill, F. and C. Gaddy. 2003. The Siberian Curse. Brookings Institution. Pages 215-216.
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City
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January Average Hi
|
January Average Low
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Population
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Verkhoyansk (Batagay)
|
-46
|
-54
|
1,201
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Noril'sk
|
-13
|
-22
|
201,982
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Yellowknife
|
-9
|
-24
|
20,000
|
Barrow
|
-7
|
-19
|
4400
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Fairbanks
|
2
|
-15
|
35,000
|
Irkutsk
|
6
|
-11
|
580,708
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Magadan
|
6
|
0
|
161,248
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Tomsk
|
7
|
-3
|
508,604
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Winnipeg
|
9
|
-9
|
742,400
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Whitehorse
|
9
|
-8
|
26,000
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Omsk
|
9
|
-3
|
1,127,675
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Novosibirsk
|
9
|
-1
|
1,425,508
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Tyumen'
|
12
|
-1
|
580,223
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Regina
|
13
|
-7
|
210,000
|
Krasnoyarsk
|
13
|
3
|
962,466
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Ekaterinburg
|
14
|
4
|
1,343,839
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Vladivostok
|
16
|
5
|
578,213
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Edmonton
|
18
|
-2
|
1,155,400
|
Québec
|
18
|
0
|
746,300
|
Ottawa
|
21
|
4
|
1,220,700
|
Montréal
|
22
|
5
|
3,814,700
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Gorno-Altaisk
|
22
|
7
|
56,013
|
Anchorage
|
23
|
10
|
277,000
|
Moscow
|
24
|
17
|
10,563,038
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Fredericton
|
25
|
4
|
52,000
|
St Petersburg
|
25
|
18
|
4,600,276
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Charlottetown
|
26
|
9
|
32,000
|
Calgary
|
27
|
5
|
1,230,200
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Toronto
|
28
|
13
|
5,623,500
|
St. John's
|
29
|
15
|
187,600
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Halifax
|
30
|
13
|
398,000
|
Vancouver
|
43
|
33
|
2,328,000
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Victoria
|
44
|
33
|
352,400
Postindustrial cities, even relatively successful ones such as Pittsburgh, are trying to manage, rather than just reverse, population loss. |
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