Coldest Record Broken : -53°C in this Chinese City

On the first day of the Year of the Rabbit,

(January 22), Mohe, Heilongjiang, located at the northernmost part of China’s land territory, refreshed its history, with a measured minimum temperature of -53 °C, breaking the record for the lowest temperature in history since meteorological records in China.

What’s –53 Like?

1. It’s so cold that it “smokes”!

Ice fog occurs in extremely cold weather

Locals figuratively call it “white smoke”

2. Hot enough to “fry eggs”

I didn’t expect that I could “fry eggs” in such a cold weather.

3. Frozen pear breaks bricks!

In Mohe frozen pears can crush bricks

The End