“Yesterday the temperature dropped to -52.6C (that’s -62.7F). Even for Halley that’s officially ‘cold’ as it only drops below -50C a couple of times a year, if at all. The lowest recorded temperature here was -55C way back in 1974.

There are plenty of fun and games to be had in extreme temperatures like this. First we repeated an old trick that we tried last year. When you throw boiling water into the air at this temperature it evaporates before it hits the ground.”

[from simonc.f2o.org/]