Even eyelashes freeze in Russia

Moscow: Even thermometers can't keep up with the plunging temperatures in Russia's remote Yakutia region, which hit minus 67 degrees Celsius in some areas on Tuesday. In Yakutia — a region of 1 million people about 5,300km east of Moscow — students routinely go to school even in minus 40 degrees.

In the village of Oymyakon, one of the coldest inhabited places on earth, state-owned Russian television showed the mercury falling to the bottom of a thermometer that was only set up to measure down to minus 50 degrees. In 2013, Oymyakon recorded an all-time low of minus 71 deg Celsius. Over the weekend, two men froze to death when they tried to walk to a nearby farm after their car broke down.