Cold air outbreaks do not go away as a result of global warming; they just get less frequent and intense.

This level of cold has become increasingly rare in recent years due to climate change brought on by humans.

Herrera stated that Zhilinda was just minus-82.3 degrees away from breaking its previous record low (minus-63.5 Celsius).

The lowest temperature ever recorded in any inhabited region of the Northern Hemisphere, and the record low for the entirety of Russia, is minus-89.9 degrees (minus-67.7 Celsius), which was recorded in February 1933.

At least a dozen official weather stations in Russia have recently recorded lows of minus-76 degrees (minus-60 degrees Celsius).

The southern Barents Sea, east of Scandinavia, and the Sea of Okhotsk, north of Japan, are both located within a broad area of extremely cold weather.

As of Wednesday, Zhilinda has not had a temperature increase above minus-58 degrees (minus-50 Celsius) in six days.

And in the upcoming evenings, temperatures are expected to drop once more to around minus-76 degrees (minus-60 Celsius).

Siberia is vast and sparsely populated, covering an area of over 13.1 million square kilometres (5,100,000 sq mi), but home to merely one-fifth of Russia’s population.