By P Gosselin on 24. January 2026
Record cold at the South Pole … Amundsen-Scott Station records -61.3°C … coldest October temperature in Southern Hemisphere since 1981.
The German, realist European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) presents its latest video on the subject of Antarctica and contrasts the new records with mainstream media coverage of climate change.
On October 15, 2025, the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station reported a record low temperature of -61.3 degrees Celsius, marking the coldest October temperature measured in the Southern Hemisphere since 1981.
Built on the Antarctic plateau, 2,835 metres above sea level, the station’s all-time low is -82.8°C. Since the seasons are reversed in the southern hemisphere, the Antarctic continent was already in spring in October and should have experienced rising temperatures – at least no lower than in the deep southern winter in August.
The EIKE video criticizes German media outlets (such as “Die Zeit”) for focusing primarily on melting ice and rising sea levels while allegedly ignoring current record-low temperatures in their reporting.
Despite the record cold temperatures on land, Antarctic sea ice reached an extent of only 17.81 million km² in September 2025—the third-lowest value since satellite measurements began.
EIKE argues that no clear, short-term conclusions about global climate development can be drawn due to the contradictory nature of the data (record cold vs. low sea ice).
AND..?
Global Freezing has been proven !!!!
Al Gore was found sobbing on the floor asking for forgiveness.
The Pope has thrown off his chasuble.
Antonio Guiterres of the UN has sworn to never pinch little kids again.
Joe Biden has formed at least one coherent sentence.
The cry of pain of all liberals combined was heard the world over.
And me?
Finally enough rocks in my Bourbon.
Chasuble? I learn a new word here every day!
Personally, I think all the caterwauling about ANY record temps is nonsense. Doesn’t prove anything for either side of the debate.
“Antarctica Saw Its Coldest October In 44 Years”
What nonsense! One station (A-S) recorded one cold day, coldest October day since 1981. And the media is supposed to be all over that?
No worries Nick, everyone here at WUWT will be all over you and your utter ignorance.
I know right? It’s almost as ridiculous as the Met Office claiming a heat record because of one minute of ‘unprecedented’ temperature at an airport next to a runway!
The Met Office likes to do ridiculous. For example if a single snowflake falls anywhere in the country on Christmas Day the Met Office declares we have had a White Christmas!
Yes, it is only one day warmest temperatures that count.
Well, on Jan 9 here we had our hottest day for six years. Tuesday is forecast to be even hotter. I don’t think the world media will be trumpetting that.
You should have stopped at “I don’t think”
“City swelters through hottest January day since Black Summer” (2026)
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/city-swelters-through-hottest-january-day-since-black-summer-20260110-p5nt0v.html
Is local media part of global media?
Local media at the South Pole would have had plenty to say, if there were any.
Why don’t you nip along and have a look?
Seriously Nick? I really couldn’t imagine that you were able to stoop lower in your irrelevant nit picking than you normally do. And here you are outshining yourself once again.
Honestly, if I didn’t know better, I would definitely suspect you of running a false flag campaign to discredit all CAGW nonsense.
…and you are still alive to tell us…It’s a miracle!!!
Not so much a miracle, more of a disappointment;
He could have proved that heat kills, but his presence proves it doesn’t.!!
“Tuesday is forecast to be even hotter. I don’t think the world media will be trumpetting that.”
It is difficult to get further away from Australia than the UK, but the “world media” Guardian website has let it been known that the south-east states “down under” would be enduring “hot” temperatures this weekend since at least Thursday.
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Thursday the 22nd of January 2026 article link.
Headline : “Heatwave and fire warnings as parts of Victoria expected to approach ‘all-time maximum record’ temperatures”
First three paragraphs :
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Friday the 23rd article link.
Headline : “Intense heat could smash temperature records in south-east Australia with catastrophic fire danger forecast”
First paragraph :
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Sunday the 25th (= “today” here in Europe when posting this, is it the 26th already in Moyhu ?) article link.
Headline : “Worst heatwave since Black Saturday forecast for Victoria as WA faces Tropical Cyclone Luana”
First three paragraphs :
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So, absolutely no journalistic “fear mongering” being deployed here at all … [ /sarcasm ] …
Does the above constitute enough “trumpeting” of the extreme weather condition “forecasts” for you ?
All time! All 14 B years since the Big Bang?
It’s absolutely terrifying, it’s true. SUMMER! It seems to happen every year, now….
“Headline : “Intense heat could smash temperature records in south-east Australia with catastrophic fire danger forecast””
The catastrophic fire danger is what makes it news. And it is real.
Summer fire danger always has been real in Australia…. always will be.
Only human issues are
a) people lighting them and
b) allowing undergrowth to build up near towns and houses.
Notice the wording.. “for almost 20 years”
Meanwhile, Australia Day in the Hunter Valley, 11am temperature is 26ºC.
Forecast for next week…. low to mid 30’s
Heat wave.. hardly !!
Over 40C in Singleton yesterdat. 41.6 in Scone.
One day..! lol !!
Thanks for agreeing was not a heat wave.
And Scone now relies on the Airport AWS,
The airport has recently undergone significant expansions.
Singleton, can’t find the site.. Do you have Google location 😉
Singleton AWS
40C at 4pm
I seem to recall that the Australian heat wave of 1895-1896 was MUCH hotter than that. Of course, those numbers are ignored because the BOM says there were no standardized Stevenson screens. They conveniently ignore the fact that their numbers today are not reliable.
Exactly. They ignore the fact that a large number of stations today have a resolution of only 0.1°C and an uncertainty of ±1.0°C. That makes it really difficult to choose which temperatures are warmer/cooler than another with any accuracy at all.
OMG! For 6 years! That shows a convincing trend.
Meanwhile here in my part of Texas, we have been below freezing for the last 36 hours, and it will most likely be another 36 hours before we nip into the lower 30degree range. Only thing it proves is it’s winter in Texas. Got to deal with it beat we can.
“hottest day in six year.”
So, six years ago you had a hotter day? Seems global cooling is at work.
A weeks ago in the Yukon the temperature plunged to -55.7° C, an all time record low. In these cold region of Northern Canada liquefied propane gas is used for heating and cooking.
In Winnipeg the average temperature in January is -20° to -10° C. Winnipeg gets nat. gas from Alberta and electricity from the James Bay Hydro. In winter there is less than 8 hours sunlight and there is lots of snow.
Manitoba has two wind turbine generator (WTG) farms. Manitoba is very windy. The ETGs have been designed to operate at sub zero C temperatures.
Does it every get cold and snowy in OZ?
Snows basically every year up in the Great Dividing Range / Southern Alps , which is found either side of the NSW – Victoria border.
Some really great snow fields in places…. Mt Hotham , Perisher Valley etc
Can also snow at odd times in other places… sometime unexpectedly.
Once saw snow in mid November just east of Canberra, very strange.
Coldest place is Charlotte’s Pass in the Southern Alps which can get down to the negative 20’s ºC
It never snows here where people live, except at ski resorts, or just ocasionally at some high towns, or in Hobart. Not in a coastal city.
I have seen snow in Lithgow, Bathurst, Blaney, Katoomba, South East Queensland, Canberra, Bowral, Mittagong, Goulburn.
It’s even snowed up here in the tropics, not far from the coast. This man is truly deluded.
All high places. It has never showed in Cairns, or even Brisbane (or Sydney or Melbourne). Actually, I’m very doubtful about snow in tropics anywhere in Australia.
Just snowed in S Texas, not coastal but not high either. Does S Texas count as tropics?
All high towns.
Mount Barker, SA – ~ 350m above sea level (not a high town)
Snowfall in Mount Barker, South Australia is quite rare. Documented occurrences include:
Yes, quite rare.
600-1000m elevation is not “high”
A small hill in most countries.
In Andean countries the valley bottoms are much higher than that.
Fixed it!
When you reside in air conditioned offices all day, any temperature variations are terrifying!
How about Christmas Eve, 2004, many inches of snow, Corpus Christi, Texas and many nearby coastal and inland towns? Truly a White Christmas with carols. Not the first time along the coast, but substantial.
Latitude under 28 degrees N, hard on the tropical plants.
Not in Australia.
Australia has mountain range close to their east coast, long way inland for central Texas coast. It makes a difference according to the climatologists.
Regularly snows in Queensland in winter.
OK, I asked Google AI
“does it snow in australia?”
Reply:
“Yes, it does snow in Australia, primarily in the southeastern Australian Alps (NSW/VIC), Tasmania, and the Australian Capital Territory during the winter months (June-August), with ski resorts like Thredbo, Perisher, and Mt Hotham seeing significant falls, though it’s rare at sea level except in southern parts like Tasmania and occasionally Adelaide.
Where it snows:
Actually,they are wrong about Adelaide. The last para is true.
Google AI is obviously VERY VERY ignorant.
No snow, but about -4c at campground in Kosciuszko (about 7000′ elevation) in May in 1993. We put every bit of cloth we had around the girls and put the 2 y/o in between us. He crawled out in the night, got very cold and peed voluminously in our sleeping bag.
Yes. It is nonsense. No mention of trends. Just a focus on an outlier temperature.
Somewhere in the world, at any one time, there’s going to be one place that has an unusually low or an unusually high temperature. It’s nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with variability around average temperatures.
Which is why it’s ignored by the media because they’d be forever reporting on exceptional temperatures at locations all over the world.
Well, Nick.
Isn’t one station recording one hot day how you get all the heat records
you need so desperately to keep your religious believes alive?
So, where does your critical attitude suddenly comes from when you usually don’t have problems to accept data from weather stations located in heat traps?
Next time go either with the standard excuse, that global warm… climate cha…climate crisis can do everything, except keeping its name.
It’s responsible for warming,cooling, more and less snow, droughts,storms etc
or be creative and come up with something like the Urban Cool Island effect.
What nonsense! One station (A-S) recorded one hot day, warmest October day since 1981. And the media was all over that terrible day!
That is how the media and you hypocrites have said over a single hot day……
Why don’t you stuff it!!!
No Nick. In de video it is mentioned that the low temperatures are reported from other places as well. The term used in de video is ‘continent wide’.
Did you know that the word hypocrite originated in1225 from the Greek hypokrites, meaning “stage actor” or “dissembler”? Fascinating.
What nonsense!
It really isn’t nonsense if one examines why it occurred. You are trying to say that Tmin in a day isn’t really important, just Tmax has importance. Why don’t you instead tell us why that low temperature was reached? Could well mixed CO2 have caused it? Would more CO2 have increased the low temperature? Is it due to orbital changes, lower particulate levels, or just natural variation. How about Tavg for the day, did it go up or down. Is it indicative of the cold temperatures that the NH is experiencing?
Facts Nick, not posturing is what is needed.
Here’s a fact. Increased CO2 over the Antarctic plateau causes additional cooling not warming!
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015GL066749
IOW, all the media propaganda about sea level rise from Antarctic melting are lies. Thanks.
No, it’s places like the Thwaites glacier that are melting not the top of the plateau.
Russia just had the most snow in 150 years, drifts up to 60 feet deep. Look at them on Youtube. The Greenland ice sheet is collecting ice at record levels, You really do need to keep up, or you will look silly.
“You really do need to keep up, or you will look silly.”
That ship sailed a long time ago !!
“drifts up to 60 feet deep”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r4hzOqQYOjo?feature=share
“The Greenland ice sheet is collecting ice at record levels”
Oh, is it?
Have you data that shows that, rather than a hand-wave?
Like this perhaps?
“Greenland mass change’s contribution to sea level rise, where 100bn tonnes is equivalent to 0.28mm of global sea level rise. All changes are given relative to April 2002. Credit: Polar Portal.”
“Despite a relatively high SMB, high calving rates meant that Greenland lost 105bn tonnes of ice over the 12-month period”.
This means that 2024-25 was the 29th year in a row with a Greenland ice sheet overall mass loss. As the chart shows, Greenland last saw an annual net gain of ice in 1996.”
“Chart showing the surface (blue), marine (green), basal (yellow) and total (red) mass balance for the “mass balance years” 1987 to 2025. Figures are in Gt per year. Mass balance year 1987 is from 1 September 1986 to 31 August 1987; similar for other years. Credit: Carbon Brief, based on updates to Mankoff et al. (2021).2”
Greenland Ice mass since 1900
Greenland ice area (including archipelago and islands) is currently only a little bit down from largest area in 8000 years.
You’re showing that fake graph again, as I’ve told you before the current ice sheet surface area is ~1.7 m^2.
times 10^12 of course
Surface mass balance was more negative in the 1930s, 40s than from 2000 onwards.
Again, showing 1930s, 40s was warmer
Was positive during much of the “new ice age” scare.
Who there Nick… I’m thinking you are not looking at this through the official Met office recombobulate lens (r).
The Met office has combined this one measurement with the average of former existing now averaged virtual stations in undisclosed places and they arrived at this record cold number after adjusting it down for no effing reason whatsoever.
2026 Is already the coldest year on record ever since 150 years ever !! before machines n stuff ever !!
“The Met office has combined this one measurement with the average of former existing now averaged virtual stations in undisclosed places”
https://www.drroyspencer.com/
“On the additional subject of replacing a closed station with estimates from surrounding stations (which NOAA also does because so many of their UNHCN stations in the U.S. have closed, a process that has also been criticized), I believe it is a little disingenuous to claim those data are “fabricated”. Rather than continuing the closed station record with estimates from surrounding stations, one could just use the surrounding stations, which is the same thing.”
“… and they arrived at this record cold number after adjusting it down for no effing reason whatsoever.”
No idea what you are saying here!
Or here …
“2026 Is already the coldest year on record ever since 150 years ever !! before machines n stuff ever !!”
Actually stating that data is “Fabricated” Thanks.
Met Office has been known to fabricated data for non-existent site, using nearby non-existent sites.. It quite funny !
Also known to close reasonable sites and add class 5 sites nearby.
Some people support this sort of “just-make-it-up”…. because it suits their agenda.
Here is a screen shot from Weather Underground.
Even considering that these might be Class 5 stations, how do you pick the ones that adequately allow calculating the correct temperature by averaging. Averaging gives you a mean AND a Standard Deviation that describes the possible range in which the true value may be.
Topography does matter when you have varied temperatures and it results in an averaged measurement that is not very accurate, i.e. it has a wide variance in what it could be. This is why most scientific endeavors do not allow this method of “fabricating” data. If a station disappears, let its record cease to exist. People are not so stupid that they can’t look in the surrounding temperatures and judge whether it is very cold, kinda cold, good, pretty warm, or warm.
This is just one of the major reasons why the global average temperature is TOTALLY MEANINGLESS – especially if the variance of the elements making up the average is not provided. Anomalies don’t help. Anomalies are nothing more than a linear transformation of a probability distribution using a constant. The resulting transformation has EXACTLY the same variance as the parent.
Until you and your alarmists stop claiming that every heat wave is proof of catastrophic global warming, I’m going to continue enjoy rubbing each cold record into your collective faces.
Can you make the argument that the station measures the air temperature (thus might give a hint about the CO2-effect), but the sea ice extend I more related to the water temperature driven by things like natural ocean cycles!?
Continental USA is getting hammered with cold. Ice, snow — Some 40 States cold.. How are those windmills and solar panels going?
It would be interested to see by how much the import and production of reliable energy will increase in the green blue states during this event.
Got a 20 acre solar “farm” behind my house. Gonna go photograph/video it after the storm. One home solar installer told me that solar panels still produce with a foot of snow on them.
I don’t doubt that they produce. The question is, how much?
A little bit of sun can filter through a foot of loosely packed snow. Not much, but enough to move the dial.
One of the major energy providers (MISO) has asked people to cut back on electricity use. Calm winds appear to have cut power generation over a large part of the grid. Temperatures are well below freezing across most of the region.
The snow storm prior to this past weekend’s excitement….
I drove through the neighborhood. Many houses have roof installed solar. I will never understand why they installed on north facings, but that is not the point of this story.
All of the house, all of them, the shingles were clear of snow and all of the solar panels were frosty white from un-melted snow.
“Most of Eastern Antarctica saw much-warmer-than-average temperatures, with large regions seeing values also more than 8°C above average.”
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-october-2025
There fixed it for you. “Antarctica Saw Its Coldest October In 44 Years” is incorrect. Please take the post down.
Amundsen-Scott Station records -61.3°C …
… coldest October temperature in Southern Hemisphere since 1981.
Sounds pretty cold to me. !!
Apparently, that’s a heat wave to alarmists.
“Antarctica Saw Its Coldest October In 44 Years” is incorrect.
That is true. The headline was wrong. What was written as the story lead:
“coldest October temperature in Southern Hemisphere since 1981”
So your “fix” is a nothing burger.
Please take your post down or at least correct it.
Both are wrong. It was not the coldest single day October temperature since 1981, and it certainly wasn’t the coldest Antarctica October in 44 years. On the contrary, it may well have been the least cold October since records began..
Record snow falls in East Russia
soon to be known as North East China
It’s simple.
Melting sea ice = “Global Heating”.
Record warm temperatures = “Global Heating”.
Record Cold, or growing sea ice =
Crickets.
Answer: Climate Change.
/s
You won’t see that on the BBC, or the Met Office.
This again? I’ll repeat what I said in October.
You miss the point entirely. You want to keep hiding the record inside of trends and averages. There have been 34 October days with the same date since 1981. This single day ranks number 1 of all those 34 days. Let it go at that! A better pursuit would be to analyze why this one day ranks number 1.
So the point wasn’t
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“You want to keep hiding the record inside of trends and averages.”
I said mothing about trends or averages. I was addressing the single claim that this was a record low daily temperature.
“There have been 34 October days with the same date since 1981”
Huh?
“A better pursuit would be to analyze why this one day ranks number 1.”
First you have to ask if it is number 1.
https://weatheire.com/news/climate/2025/10/18/antarctic-cold-hits-44-year-low-for-october/
“only 17.81 million km²”
OMG, that’s all? /s
Sounds like my driveway. /s
Worth noting that according to UAH, 2025 had the warmest Antarctic October in the UAH history, i.e. 46 years
And by warmest, it actually beat the old record set in 2016 by almost half a degree
The ten warmest Octobers in the Antarctic, according to UAH are
The UAH data doesn’t include the actual South Pole, but it does suggest that pointing to one cold day and claiming it means that this was the coldest October in Antarctic for 44 years, is not the whole story.
NOAA also has 2025 as the warmest October int he Antarctic, beating 1988 by 0.2°C.
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Ventusky agrees it reach -61.3ºC
Yes, that’s the tweet that started all this. As far as I can see every claim that this was an October record are just regurgitating that tweet.
As a couple of replies said, the coldest October day was recorded in 2007 at -72.0°C.
This page lists the record lows for each day of October. (Can’t vouch for its accuracy).
https://www.weatherandclimate.info/monitor/?id=89009&month=10&year=2025
According to that site, the actual minimum on the 15th was -62.7°C, somewhat colder than the figure in the tweet, but it’s still warmer than 15th October 2001.
I hope the young lady has some warm clothes. She looks cold.
Germany is running -5C to -25 C at the moment – with low NG reserves.
Rationing is supposed to be next. Heat one room to 15C. Freeze pipes elsewhere.
Where’s all that Ol’time Global Warming gone?
Surely all the CO2 in this cold air has an abundance of “trapped heat.” Someone figure out how to release it.
/s
At first Gemini blamed the record low on CO2. After further dialog it was forced to admit CO2 had nothing at all to do with it. https://gemini.google.com/share/09028733d64b
This is even further from the truth. Vostok in the Antarctic has record many October temperatures below -70°C. According to GHCN Daily, its coldest October day was the 1st of October 2021, at -79.4°C.
FYI–for those of you living in the country which put men on the moon, the temperature was 78.34 below zero.