(recorded on this day in 1983)? (from A Dictionary of Ecology)
cold pole - The place in each hemisphere that records the lowest mean temperature. The southern hemisphere cold pole is at Vostok Station, Antarctica, where the mean temperature in the coldest month (August) is -67.6°C and the annual mean temperature is -55.1°C, but where a temperature of -89.2°C was recorded on 21 July 1983.
cold pole - The place in each hemisphere that records the lowest mean temperature. The southern hemisphere cold pole is at Vostok Station, Antarctica, where the mean temperature in the coldest month (August) is -67.6°C and the annual mean temperature is -55.1°C, but where a temperature of -89.2°C was recorded on 21 July 1983.
This is the lowest temperature ever recorded on Earth. There are two cold poles in the northern hemisphere. One is at Verkhoyansk, Siberia, where the mean temperature in the coldest month (January) is -50.3°C, the mean annual temperature is -17.2°C, and the lowest temperature ever recorded was -67°C. The other cold pole is at Snag, Yukon, where the mean temperature in the coldest month (January) is -28.1°C, the mean annual temperature is -5.8°C, and the lowest recorded temperature is -63°C.
How to cite this entry:"cold pole" A Dictionary of Ecology. by Michael Allaby. Oxford University Press Inc. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 21 July 2011
How to cite this entry:"cold pole" A Dictionary of Ecology. by Michael Allaby. Oxford University Press Inc. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. 21 July 2011
