Record-Setting Weather in Antarctica

With its annual average temperature of –56.6 °C (-69.9 °F), Plateau Station, Antarctica is the coldest place in the world.

	Lowest Temperature The lowest temperature ever recorded on earth is -89.2 °C (-128.5 °F) at Vostok, Antarctica on July 21, 1983.
	Hottest Spot The temperature reached a balmy, record-breaking high for Antarctica of 15 °C (59 °F) at Vanda Station, Scott Coast on January 5, 1974.
	Wettest Location The east and west coasts of Antarctica, as well as the Antarctica Peninsula, all average 800 millimetres (31.5 inches) of precipitation a year, making these areas the wettest on the South Pole's continent.
	Driest Place The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station gets the least amount of rain or snow anywhere in Antarctica, amounting to just 2 millimetres (0.08 inches) in an average year.
	Windiest Site The wind at Port Martin, Antarctica averages more than 64 kph (kilometres per hour) (40 miles per hour) on at least one hundred days each year, making it overall the windiest place on earth.