Mohe is known as China's North Pole for a good reason. It is the country's most northern city and is a very, very cold place.
a new record for the coldest temperature ever recordedChina's National Meteorological Centre confirmed it beat the previously long-held record of -52.3C, set all the way back in 1969.
If your fingers are exposed, even if you're just wearing thinner gloves, they'll be totally numb in a matter of minutes - frostbite is a very real risk here.We had to ensure we only spent a short time outside at any one time and always had a warm vehicle to retreat to. Local heating companies in Mohe have said the boilers are running at full power to help people through the winter and Beijing News reported that coal consumption has increased by a third in the city.
It's an old, rickety, characterful thing. The sleeping bunks are all open to the corridor - six people, stacked three on three in each little space. This 15-hour train was just the last leg of the journey, we'd had to first fly two hours north from Beijing and then take a series of other trains to reach this one. It gives you a sense of just how remote and far north Mohe is.It is often very, very cold here, so there is a degree to which the locals are hardened to it and expect it. They joke that tourists come here totally unprepared for what they find.
Normally the circulation of this air is limited by local wind patterns, but 'weakness' in the system can cause the freezing air to break out as it did during the 'Beast from the East' across the British Isles in 2018.Let's be clear, it is always pretty cold up here. But temperatures this week have been, on average 15-20 degrees Celsius colder than normal.
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