Nearly 100 degrees below zero: yesterday, the lowest recorded temperature on Earth occurred

The driest winter arrived in Antarctica this month and left the coldest temperature detected on Earth: -98.6 degrees Celsius.

The figure was confirmed by a team of researchers led by Ted Scambos of the University of Colorado at Boulder, according to the magazine "Geophysical Research Letters".

For a long time, the lowest known temperature was -89.2 degrees recorded on July 23, 1983 at the Russian base in Vostok. (DPA)