A new daily temperature record has been registered at the Yezershche weather station - minus 32.6 degrees Celsius

January 27, Minsk / Tatyana Lobas - BELTA /. Last night, the lowest air temperature in Belarus was recorded at the Yezershche meteorological station in the Vitebsk region. At 6 a.m., it was minus 32.6 degrees, the climate department of the Republican Hydrometeorological Center told a BELTA correspondent. This was the lowest temperature level for the past night in Belarus, as well as for the current January. As reported, before that, the lowest air temperature this month was recorded in Pruzhany (on January 25), when the thermometer dropped to minus 31.6 degrees. The absolute minimum temperature at the Yezershche meteorological station was recorded on January 16, 1940, when it was minus 41.5 degrees. By the way, in 1940, there were very severe frosts in Belarus. And the lowest temperature in the entire history of meteorological observations was recorded on January 17, 1942, in Tolochin, when the mercury column of the thermometer dropped to minus 42.2 degrees. According to the preliminary assessment of specialists from the Republican Hydrometeorological Center, the current January will be among the five coldest in the post-war period. -0-