“HEAT WAVE” IN ANTARCTIC 07 June 1934 Temperature 25 Deg. Above Zero. MOUNT GAMBIER NEARLY AS LOW. 32 degrees above zero.
“HEAT WAVE” IN ANTARCTIC (1934, June 7). The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 – 1954), p. 15. Retrieved February 14, 2020, from https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/35111576?searchTerm=antarctic%20temperature&searchLimits=#
“HEAT WAVE” IN ANTARCTIC
Temperature 25 Deg. Above Zero
MOUNT GAMBIER NEARLY AS LOW
By Radio From The Byrd Antarctic Expedition
LITTLE AMERICA, June 5.
This Polar community entered on the fourteenth day of what, for want of a better equivalent, might be called the “hottest winter heat wave in the memory of the oldest inhabitants.” At 8 a.m. today the temperature soared to 25 degrees above zero.
To add to the complexity a blizzard, with soft moist snow, which was almost like rain, came from the east.
However, the warm spell is a boon to the expedition. The tractor department is overhauling three machines. As handling metal at low temperatures is cruel work, the men are glad that
it has moderated.
The present weather is in contrast to that experienced at the beginning of the winter, when the Byrd Expedition reported temperatures as low as 72½ degrees below zero. The lowest ever recorded by an Antarctic expedition is 76 degrees below zero.
It is not unusual in Antarctic winters to have an occasional day above zero, but the present temperatures are most unusual.
During the first Bryd expedition the highest temperature was 17 degrees above zero.
At Mount Gambier yesterday morning the temperature was 32 degrees above zero—
only 7 degrees higher than that recorded in the Antarctic.