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...U.S.S.R., which like California delights in its own superlatives, is the proud possessor of "the coldest spot on earth." Last week Moscow radio announced that at a place in Siberia (Lat. 63 north, Long. 143 east) near the Sea of Okhotsk the thermometer recently dived to -70.2° Centigrade...
...weathermen admitted that they could not compete. Cold record for the U.S.: -66° F. at Yellowstone Park on Feb. 6, 1933. North America's coldest place is in Canada's lower Mackenzie Valley, where the thermometer at Fort Good Hope has fallen...
...Japanese put on their warmest tanzen (wool-padded kimonos) last week. Meteorologists had warned them to prepare for the coldest winter in 20 years...
Real winter came to western Canada last week in the blowiest, snowiest, coldest storm since record-keeping began in 1884. It laid a heavy white hand on the Rockies, then roared down across the prairies. It snapped power and telephone lines, blotted out roads, buried autos, stalled snowplows, isolated towns, made kids happy by closing schools. In Edmonton, where a new record for mid-November warmth (60°) had just been set, the storm shoved temperatures down to 24° below zero...
...coldest in history, coast to coast...