Dome A: Colder than Cold

Dome Argus is the highest and possibly coldest place in Antarctica. There's a hot chance that an automatic weather station at Dome A will record the world's lowest surface temperature.

The lowest temperature ever recorded was -89.2°C in July 1983, at the Russian station Vostok, inland of Australia's Casey station.

Dome A is nearly 600 m higher in elevation than Vostok and the coldest temperature recorded at Dome A was -82.5°C in July 2005.

Check here daily to see if the temperature can get colder than cold…

Latitude: 80 22" 02'S
Longitude: 77 32"21'E
Height: 4084 m
Latest 24-hour-minimum temperature: -71.2°C

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