Klinck Weather Station, Greenland — minus 93.3 F (minus 69.6 C)
In the heart of the Arctic Circle, in the middle of the Greenland ice sheet, a lone weather station recorded lowest ever temperature in the northern hemisphere on Dec. 22, 1991. That day, the temperature at the Klinck weather station had dropped to minus 93.3 F (minus 69.6 degrees C).
The Klinck weather station rests at an elevation of 10,187 feet (3,105 m), close to Greenland's highest point of Gunnbjørn Mountain. Researchers working for the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) found the record low temperature while digging through an 30-year archive, created in 2007. The WMO researchers published their findings in September 2020 in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
This beat the previous record for the coldest temperature ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere by minus 3 F (minus 2 C). Before Klinck, the record low temperature was minus 90 degrees F (minus 67.8 C), which was recorded at Verkhoyansk in February, 1892, and Oymyakon in January 1933. Both these sites are in Russia.