[1/2] A communal worker cleans snow at the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (VDNH) during a heavy snowfall in Moscow, Russia December 3, 2023.
REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov Acquire Licensing RightsMOSCOW, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Temperatures in parts of Siberia plummeted to minus 50 degrees Celsius (minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit) while blizzards blanketed Moscow in record snowfall and disrupted flights as winter weather swept across Russia.
In the Sakha Republic, located in the northeastern part of Siberia and home to Yakutsk, one of the world's coldest cities, temperatures fell below minus 50 C, according to the region's weather stations.
An abnormally early cold snap in Sakha pushed temperatures to even lower than minus 50 C in several areas of Sakha, a vast region just a little smaller than India.
Temperatures in Moscow were forecast to fall to about minus 18 C later this week.
Persons:
Maxim Shemetov, Lidia Kelly, Guy Faulconbridge, Jamie Freed
Organizations:
National, REUTERS, Rights, Thomson
Locations:
Moscow, Russia, Siberia, Sakha Republic, Yakutsk, Sakha, India, Russian, Melbourne