temperature under the ice is fixed at -2c.  thus elevated winter   air temperatures
temperature under the ice is fixed at -2c.  thus elevated winter   air temperatures
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the lowest air temperature ever directly measured on earth was −89.2 °c (−128.6 °f) at vostok station in 1983, but satellites have used remote sensing to measure temperatures as low as −94.7 °c (−138.5 °f) in east antarctica.