Climate
The base has fairly typical weather conditions for coastal Antarctica, with minimum temperatures around −45°C (−49°F) and summer maximums only occasionally above freezing point. It is exposed to the full strength of southerly blizzards, although overall it is less windy than McMurdo Station. The maximum wind velocities experienced have been gusts up to 185 km/h with steady velocities under blizzard conditions of 95–115 km/h. The highest recorded temperature was 6.0°C (42.8°F), the coolest −57°C (−70.6°F) and the mean temperature −19.6°C (−3.3°F).
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean daily maximum temperature (°C) | −1.2 | −7.9 | −15.8 | −18.6 | −20.0 | −20.1 | −22.3 | −23.0 | −22.0 | −16.0 | −7.3 | −1.5 | −14.6 |
| Mean monthly temperature (°C) | −4.5 | −11.4 | −20.5 | −24.0 | −25.6 | −26.0 | −28.3 | −29.7 | −28.1 | −21.3 | −11.4 | −4.8 | −19.6 |
| Mean daily minimum temperature (°C) | −7.9 | −15.1 | −25.1 | −29.4 | −31.1 | −31.9 | −34.4 | −36.4 | −34.2 | −26.7 | −15.5 | −8.2 | −24.7 |
| Mean relative humidity (%) | 76.0 | 71.1 | 69.0 | 68.8 | 69.8 | 69.3 | 67.3 | 64.6 | 66.7 | 66.2 | 69.4 | 74.3 | 69.5 |
| Source: National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research | |||||||||||||
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