Aggressive coldwave in Antarctica (!) Vostok station almost -80°C (-79,2°C), only 2°C from its coldest all-time record for May history
Marek Kučera 
Winter in Antarctica is starting very aggressively and already a few days before an official Winter 2025 season.
While in the last articles we mentioned that most of Antarctica reported a cooling trend after the year 2000 /https://mkweather.com/773c-in-concordia-antarctica//, these lines will be about the current aggressive coldwave in the coldest places on the Earth.
On 22. May 2022, at Vostok station, Antarctica, the temperature minimum of -79,2°C was measured, so far, and the temperature is still falling down!
Probably only on Friday, 23. May or at the weekend we will know how deep fall temperature in the region, but already now we should tell that the current temperature from Thursday evening, 22:00 Central European time, is only 2°C above the all-time historic record for the month of May!
The last 7 days brought freezing maximum temperatures of -72/-75°C and temperature minimums between -73/-80°C.
The coldest temperature recorded on Earth is -89,2 °C (-128,6 °F), which was measured just at Vostok Station in Antarctica on July 21, 1983, and with this trend, an all-time minimum for the Earth should be in danger in the next months (!).
Temperatures in Vostok in May are usually moving between -62 and -69°C in May according to climate tables /https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_Station/.
According to some sources, the coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was -93,2°C (-135,8°F), measured on the East Antarctic Plateau near Dome Argus and Dome Fuji. This extreme cold was detected by satellites in August 2010.
Some sources are saying about -96,6°C (-145,5°F) measured in East Antarctic Plateau as the lowest ever recorded temperature on the planet in 2018.
Source: https://ogimet.com/cgi-bin/gsynres?ind=89606&ano=2025&mes=5&day=22&hora=12&min=0&ndays=30
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_Station
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