Talk:Verkhoyansk

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 * Dispute box: I added dispute box. The average highs and lows (temperatures) for December are wrong. I think the data comes from Britannica. Maybe it's a transcription error or maybe it's an error by the source. The average day and night cannot vary by only 1 degree. On the tundra there should be a warming in mid-afternoon to minus 40 C from minus 50 overnight. At the arctic circle there is still an hour or two of daylight (if not sunlight). Anyway, this needs a fact check. Anthony717 (talk) 22:34, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Yes, someone has been editing the climate information to make it look colder than it actually is. Real data can be found here: http://pogoda.ru.net/climate/24266.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by JackTheHouse (talk • contribs) 16:21, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Another problem here is that the text is inconsistent with itself and with the monthly tables. The text says, "The lowest temperature recorded there in 1892, was −69.8 °C (−93.6 °F). Temperatures in Verkhoyansk have spanned 101 °C (202 °F): from −68 °C (−90.4 °F) to 33 °C (91.4 °F)." But the table shows an all-time record high of 37.3 °C. Anyway, a difference of 101 °C is clearly not 202 °F; it is 182 °F. I don't know how to fix this to make it both consistent and correct, but someone more knowledgeable should surely address it. --Ed Gehringer, 17 Jan 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.182.112.44 (talk) 02:13, 18 January 2010 (UTC)   Me again: OK, the alleged difference between all-time high and low has been reduced to 193°F, but this is still too much. Check your arithmetic! I could fix the alleged range, or the alleged high and low, but I'm not sure which number needs to be adjusted, so I won't mess with it. --Ed Gehringer, 6 Mar 2011
 * I just looked at the source for the climate data, just by chance, and found that it was actually pointing to the data for Oymyakon instead. Also, having found the actual data for Verkhoyansk, some of the numbers were wrong, most notably the record high for January July . This was 40.0°C in the article, but the source says 37.3°C. It seems this number (the 40.0°C) was added this past July (2012) without any justification. Anyway, I've fixed up the source link, and replaced the incorrect data, including various temperatures mentioned in the text. (The lowest temperature of 69.8°C was unaffected by all this.) Dendrite1 (talk) 07:58, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

2012 Wolf-attack
It says: "pack of around 400 wolves, who killed 300 horses", which is wrong the source does not mention anything about how many horses were attacked by these wolves. It only says "Wolves killed 313 horses and over 16,000 reindeer in 2012, according to the agriculture ministry".

This source mentions '30' horses as a number: (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354445/Super-pack-400-wolves-kill-30-horses-just-days-remote-Russian-village.html) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.158.72.233 (talk) 12:46, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

I cannot find anything more about these supposed wolf "super packs" than a pair of British Tabloids, I suggest we remove it as unsupported unless a better source can be found. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.39.26.20 (talk) 23:59, 17 May 2017 (UTC)


 * I've run out of time for looking further, but here's a link to a report from within Russia. Perhaps the British tabloids got a few things wrong (or maybe not). But it doesn't appear they just made this up out of nothing, so it would seem acceptable, probably desirable, to put something well-crafted back on the page: In Yakutia hunting for a giant wolf pack began (from Lenta.ru). --Presearch (talk) 17:02, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

The official record low is -67.8C, not -69.8C
The source inside of the weather box (http://www.pogodaiklimat.ru/climate/24266.htm) cites a record low of -67.8C in February. Thus the February record low should not be displayed as -69.8C without including an additional source within the weather box.

Moreover, a source included in the article points out that the -69.8C reading is in fact an incorrect reading. The officially accepted minimum is -67.8C. Here is a direct link to that article: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/086/mwr-086-01-0006.pdf

Hence, I am changing the -69.8C in the weather box back to -67.8C. Please come discuss it here if you propose to change it back.

New heat record 2021
From June 2021 the heat record appears to be some 10°C above the previous 2020 record. Can somebody update the page with a trusted source? I found this article, but nothing more official: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/land-temperature-soared-to-48c-in-the-arctic-circle-this-month/

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100 degrees Celsius temperature range
There are four places in the world with a temperature range higher then 100 degrees Celsius. Outside Russia you have Fort Vermilion in Canada. With an absolute low of -61,2 degrees Celsius and a high of 39,4 degrees Celsius you got a temperature range of 100,6 degrees Celsius. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaskasepakte (talk • contribs) 07:45, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Photos
The picture of the Pole of Cold is unimteresting. A picture of the main street would be nice. Deipnosophista (talk) 15:09, 14 November 2020 (UTC)