The Lowest Natural Temperature Recorded On Earth Plunged Down To

The coldest place on Earth is the East Antarctic Plateau. In this desolate desert, on July 23, 1983, air temperatures at Russia's Vostok Station plunged to around -89.2°C (-128.6°F), significantly lower than the average temperature here. However, even colder temperatures have since been detected in the remote East Antarctic Plateau. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Researchers from the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder looked a satellite data collected between 2004 and 2016 across East Antarctica. This revealed that parts of the East Antarctic Plateau above Vostok clocked temperatures of around -98°C (-144.4°F) during the polar night, the dead of winter when the sun doesn’t shin