Record cold detected in Antarctica
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Newly analyzed data from East Antarctica say the remote region has set a record for soul-crushing cold. The record is minus 94.7 degrees Celsius.
A new look at NASA satellite data revealed that Earth set a new record for coldest temperature recorded. It happened in August 2010 when it hit minus 94.7 degrees. Then on July 31 of this year, it came close again: minus 92.9 degrees.
The old record had been minus 89.2 degrees.
Ice scientist Ted Scambos at the US National Snow and Ice Data Center announced the cold facts at the American Geophysical Union scientific meeting in San Francisco on Monday.
“It’s more like you’d see on Mars on a nice summer day in the poles,” Scambos said. “I’m confident that these pockets are the coldest places on Earth.”
However, it won’t be in the Guinness Book of World Records because these were satellite measured, not from thermometers, Scambos said.
Waleed Abdalati, an ice scientist at the University of Colorado, and Scambos said this is likely an unusual random reading in a place not measured very often.
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