90 DEGREES BELOW ZERO.
Many people have the impression that the world's temperatures follow pretty closely the dotted circles on the schoolroom globe, which divide the earth with geometric neatness in Frigid, Temperate and Torrid Zone*. If that were the case we should find the North and South Poles sharing the frigidity honours, and the earth's hottest spots dotting the equator. Neither weather extreme follows any such preconceived notion. The prize for "winter chill not only misses both Poles, but goes outside the AVctic Circle entirely, resting on the interior of Northern Siberia. There Old Man Winter drives the thermometer to the subcellar to register 90 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. Nor does the hottest point lie on the equator. The highest recorded temperature was found outside the Tropic Zone and well within the Temperate Zone. At a point about 25 miles south of Tripoli the thermometer rose to a sweltering 136 degrees Fahrenheit. — Science Monitor."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 88, 15 April 1939, Page 8
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15590 DEGREES BELOW ZERO. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 88, 15 April 1939, Page 8
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