How cold, how warm and how windy is Scott Base?
Records kept by the National Institute
for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) indicate the
extreme maximum temperature recorded is +7.5º C
in January 2002; the extreme minimum temperature recorded
is -57º C in August 1968 and the highest wind speed
was 196.5 km per hour in April 1972. (However, manual
recording methods have registered wind speeds as high
as 112 knots.)
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