Mongolia is known for having very, very cold winters. It is normal for it to be as cold as -40 degrees in the winter! This means that people have to find lots of ways to stay warm, so they can still live and work here.
Mongolia is made up mostly of steppe, or vast, open plains land. Mongolia is very far from any ocean, which makes it very very cold and dry in the winter time and quite hot in the summer. In fact, Ulaanbaatar is the coldest capital city in the world. This means that from October to May, it is quite normal for there to be snow!
