The temperature of -69.6 °C at an automatic weather station in Greenland on December 22, 1991 was recognized by the WMO as the lowest ever recorded in the Northern hemisphere, RIA Novosti reports.

This record was discovered recently, after almost 30 years of research in the WMO weather and climate extremes Archive. The new data changed the rating of the lowest temperatures for the Northern hemisphere, moving to second place the value of -67.8 °C recorded in February 1892 and in Oymyakon in January 1933 at the Russian facility in Verkhoyansk.

The world's coldest temperature record remains in the Southern hemisphere, where -89.2 °C was recorded at the Vostok high-altitude weather station in Antarctica on July 21, 1983.