January 18, 2018

Even thermometers can't keep up with the plunging temperatures in Russia's remote Yakutia region, which hit minus 88.6 degrees Fahrenheit in some areas Tuesday.

Frozen eyebrows are common at those levels.

In the village of Oymyakon, one of the coldest inhabited places on earth, state-owned Russian television showed the mercury falling to the bottom of a thermometer that was only set up to measure down to minus 50 degrees. In 2013, Oymyakon recorded an all-time low of minus 98 Fahrenheit.

See the brutal cold heading towards Manchuria this weekend.

Irkutsk in southern Siberia drops to near -40F.

My daughter working on her doctorate was at the lake there last summer when it was 120F warmer.

See it drop in Harbin in Manchuria to the -30s.

See the growing frigid airmass.

See the for now weakened link from Asia to Alaska to central North America.

See the warming starting in western North America in the stratosphere as we saw early in December.e

The ocean temperatures support cold coming.