Temperature Reaches -100F!!

Posted: 2011-05-19

Earlier today, at 7 UTC (2am CDT), an AWS in eastern Antarctica reached a temperature of -100F! This station is JASE2007 and is owned by both the University of Wisconsin and Japan. This is the first time in 2011 that the temperature has fallen to -100F! Below is a plot of the observed AWS temperatures at 7 UTC:

 

AWS Temperature Plot