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Originally Posted by upthesaukee
I'm thinking about Bear Islander's trip, and saying to myself why on God's green earth would he go there in the winter....and then Dawn over Marblehead, it is winter here, but in the Southern Hemisphere, it is of course summer... a relative term at the South Pole.
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On Thursday, 14 Feb, the current temp at VOSTOK, Antarctica is -64 degrees F (
http://classic.wunderground.com/cgi-...:00000.1.89606). And it's snowing. Friday's forecast high is 44 degrees below zero.
So yeah, summer
is the ideal time to visit Antarctica.