“-62 degrees”: forecasters respond to video from East Kazakhstan Region

Tengrinews.kz – Kazhydromet forecasters have commented on reports of extreme cold in East Kazakhstan Region.

What happened

Earlier, a video spread on social media in which a man claims that in Zyryanovsk on the night of January 16 the temperature allegedly dropped to minus 62 degrees. The author of the video stated that such cold “has never happened” in the city.

What forecasters say

However, Kazhydromet has refuted this information. According to meteorologists, on the night of January 16 the minimum air temperature at the Zyryanovsk weather station was minus 41.5 degrees.

Thus, the figures voiced on social media do not correspond to official meteorological observations.

It should be recalled that on January 15, in some localities of Altai district in East Kazakhstan Region, temperatures dropped below minus 40. For example, in the village of Parygino, minus 45 degrees was recorded.

Today, January 16, as reported by YK-news.kz, temperatures in Parygino fell to minus 53 degrees.

Photo provided by residents of Parygino/yk-news.kz

It is noted that on January 17, East Kazakhstan Region is expected to have dry weather. Fog is forecast in the north and east of the region. Northwesterly wind 9–14 m/s. Air temperature at night minus 33–38, in the south minus 28, and in the north and east severe frost of minus 45 degrees; during the day minus 27–32, in the south minus 23 degrees.