what's the weather like in the south pole
In midsummer, as the sun reaches its maximum elevation of about 23.5 degrees, high temperatures at the South Pole in January average at − 25.9 ° C (− 15 ° F). As the six-month "day" wears on and the sun gets lower, temperatures drop as well: they reach − 45 ° C (− 49 ° F) around sunset (late March) and sunrise (late September). In midwinter, the average temperature remains steady at around − 58 ° C (− 72 ° F). The highest temperature ever recorded at the Amundsen -- Scott South Pole Station was − 12.3 ° C (9.9 ° F) on Christmas Day, 2011, and the lowest was − 82.8 ° C (− 117.0 ° F) on June 23, 1982 (for comparison, the lowest temperature directly recorded anywhere on earth was − 89.2 ° C (− 128.6 ° F) at Vostok Station on July 21, 1983, though − 93.2 ° C (− 135.8 ° F) was measured indirectly by satellite in East Antarctica between Dome A and Dome F in August 2010).