Antarctica: the Franco-Italian Concordia station recorded −84.1°C, the coldest temperature on Earth in 14 years

On 18 July, the Franco-Italian Concordia research station recorded a temperature of −84.1°C. On 18 July, the Franco-Italian Concordia station recorded −84.1°C, the lowest temperature measured anywhere on Earth since 2012. Concordia reached −84.1°C during the polar night, the lowest temperature recorded anywhere in the world since 2012. Dome C, the vast plateau on which Concordia station is located, can be identified on this map of Antarctica. The researchers themselves estimated that a surface temperature of −98°C would correspond to an air temperature of approximately −94 ± 4°C.