A weather station at Concordia Research Station in Antarctica may have just registered the world’s lowest temperature in four years.
According to real-time data published by Italy’s Antarctic Meteo-Climatological Observatory, the temperature at Concordia Research Station dropped to -82.7ºC in the early hours of July 25.
Image: Real-time temperature observations from the Concordia Automatic Weather Station (blue box), showing a provisional minimum temperature observation of -82.7ºC. Source: Antarctic Meteo-Climatological Observatory.
Another nearby Automatic Weather Station, named Dome C II, also registered temperatures lower than -80ºC around the same time, reaching -81.4ºC at 18:47 UTC on July 24.
Image: Real-time temperature observations from the Dome C II Automatic Weather Station on July 24, 2023. Source: AMRC / UW-Madison
These provisional values, which need to be officially validated, are the lowest temperatures observed anywhere in the world so fa
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