Orange popsicle it was freezing in St. Paul on Wednesday night as the mercury dropped to -39.
6C, it was downright frigid in the village of Myrnam, about 40 kilometres to the south. Not even the spotlight of being Alberta’s coldest community for two days running could heat up the thermometers on Tuesday and Wednesday nights in the community of about 350 people. According to Environment Canada, Myrnam temperatures were at a low of -41. The village in the agricultural bread-basket of northeastern Alberta was making frozen dougballs — and was only 0.
3 degrees from being the nation’s coldest place on Wednesday. Other chilly temps recorded across the Lakeland on Wednesday night included -37. 6 in Cold Lake and -38. Around the globe, the coldest place on earth on Wednesday night according to global temperature reports, was Verkhoyansk in north central Russia, where it bottomed out at -52C.