Think you’re tough because you survived a -40°C wind chill? Well, Antarctica just said, “Hold my hot chocolate.”
Vostok, Antarctica, just clocked a bone-chilling -76.3°C, breaking the global record for the coldest March temperature ever recorded. To put that in perspective, that’s cold enough to make a Saskatoon winter feel like a tropical getaway at Pike Lake.
While we’re busy swapping our parkas for light jackets the moment it hits 0°C, the bottom of the world is reaching levels of deep-freeze that make our “Bridge City” frost look like morning dew. Even the Yukon’s recent -55.7°C (Canada’s coldest since ’99) looks downright balmy compared to that Antarctic deep-freeze.
So, next time you’re scraping ice off your windshield in the Midtown parking lot, just remember: it could be forty degrees colder.
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