Temperatures in Siberia have dropped as low as -62.7°C (-80.9°F), making it the coldest day in Russia in more than two decades, meteorologists say.The weather agency in Russia’s Yakutia (Sakha) region said a temperature of -62.7 degrees Celsius was recorded at Tongulakh at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, breaking the station’s all-time low for the third time this month.A measurement of -62.7 degrees makes it the lowest temperature in all of Russia since February 2002, and Russia’s lowest temperature in January since 1982.In Yakutsk, the region’s capital, people braved the extreme cold and jumped into ice cold water to mark the Christian Orthodox day of Epiphany, which commemorates the baptism of Jesus Christ.Sakha leader Aysen Nikolayev was one of those who jumped into the water when the temperature in Yakutsk was about -50°C (-58°F)."