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wow great find. That place is insanely cold for its latitude, at only 54 South. I don't believe in the data. How can that island be freezing and snowy year round at that latitude. Pantagonia, Argentina is further south but isn't as cold.
*Never mind. Those temperatures are measured on the ice and do not reflect the ambient air temperature.
wow great find. That place is insanely cold for its latitude, at only 54 South. I don't believe in the data. How can that island be freezing and snowy year round at that latitude. Pantagonia, Argentina is further south but isn't as cold.
*Never mind. Those temperatures are measured on the ice and do not reflect the ambient air temperature.
Just because ice is able to stay there year round is already evidence of the fact that this place is really cold.
I believe the difference between Bouvet Island and Tierra Del Fuego is that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is pushed farther south around the tip of South America allowing warmer temperate waters to have an influence. Bouvet Island lies south of the ACC so the water around it is always very cold.
It sounds like a very interesting place geographically speaking, somewhere which I'd never heard of. It's at the same latitude as where I was born but their warmest month is colder than our coldest month! The irony is with its vile climate it's actually nearer the Equator than anywhere else in Norway which has much more temperate, liveable weather.
I clicked the link, scrolled up, saw the Norwegian flag, read '54 S' as '54 N', then scrolled back down expecting to find a relatively balmy climate. Then I realised it was actually a Norwegian territory in the Southern Ocean (which is known to be very cold relative to latitude, in contrast with Norway proper which is very warm).
I rate this as an 'F' for sure! It is very much colder than NZ's Campbell Island at almost the same latitude. It's probably safe to assume that wind speeds are very high and sunshine very low also.
I clicked the link, scrolled up, saw the Norwegian flag, read '54 S' as '54 N', then scrolled back down expecting to find a relatively balmy climate. Then I realised it was actually a Norwegian territory in the Southern Ocean (which is known to be very cold relative to latitude, in contrast with Norway proper which is very warm).
I rate this as an 'F' for sure! It is very much colder than NZ's Campbell Island at almost the same latitude. It's probably safe to assume that wind speeds are very high and sunshine very low also.
Certainly an "F", though I would pick it as sunnier than Campbell. Much further south around South Orkney is however extremely cloudy.
An F for sure but its record low is apparently only -18.7C warmer than most northern hemisphere subpolar climates. I'd rather spend a winter on Bouvet Island than Winnipeg for example
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