This weekend is positively balmy compared to last, but none of us will get over the positively frigid temps that launched 2018 in New Hampshire anytime soon. If you can’t remember ever being colder in your life, you’re probably right – as it turns out, on that day the highest point in New Hampshire was the second-coldest on Earth.

We all know that Mount Washington is darn cold in the winter, and that the mountain has some of the most extreme weather in the world. The wind-speeds recorded at the top are absolutely wild, and they certainly don't warm anyone up in the dead of winter.
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On Saturday, January 6, the top of Mount Washington tied with Armstrong, Ontario for the second-coldest place on Earth, at -36 degrees Farenheit.
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The only colder places on Earth were Nunavut, in the far north of Canada...
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and Yakutsk, which is literally in Siberia. Both locations measured -38 degrees Fareinheit.
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However, that's not accounting for wind chill – and Mount Washington had much higher winds than any of the other locations, meaning that the brave weather observers at the top of the mountain felt colder than anyone on Earth when they stepped outside to take measurements.
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If nothing else, this definitively proves that New Hampshirites are some of the toughest people on Earth!

Cold just thinking about these temperatures? Here are some great ways to warm up.

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