World Weather Records (snowing, recorded, temperature, city)

[Infamous92]

I thought this would be fun thread, I'll start with my hometown .

New York City holds the world record for the highest temperature in which it snowed, it was 47° when it began snowing at LaGuardia Airport.

I forgot the date though .


Do you know of any world records regarding weather?

[deneb78]

I think the village of Oymyakon in Siberia holds the record for the lowest recorded temperature of any permanently inhabited place in the world and I think in the Northern Hemisphere as well with an official reading of -90F (-67.7C) back in 1933 but also there was an unofficial reading of -96F (-71.2C) in 1924 that was taken by extrapolation. Verkhoyansk also in Siberia is a contender for the coldest inhabited spot also with a temperature of -90F. Either way you want to look at it, they are very cold places indeed!