This town hit -55.7 C — Canada's coldest temperature in 50 years
Braeburn experienced a depth of cold that has never been known in most of the world’s countries
Article content
Even as parts of the United States experience unseasonably warm holidays, some corners of Canada are hitting extremes of cold not seen since the 1970s.
Article content
On Dec. 23, a weather monitoring station in Braeburn, Yukon, recorded a temperature reading of -55.7 degrees Celsius, the lowest December temperature charted in Canada since 1975.
Article content
Article content
For context, this isn’t too far off the average temperature on the surface of Mars, a planet whose lack of atmosphere renders it notably cold and uninhabitable. The air temperature on Mars averages out at -60 C.
Article content