Question: is it cold in the Antarctic and do you enjoy living there

Tamsin Gray answered on 15 Mar 2010:

It is really cold here, in fact the coldest temperature ever recorded on earth was -89 at a Russian base in the middle of Antarctica. That’s so cold you can’t go outside without wearing a kind of space suit to stop the air freezing in your lungs when you breath!
As for me, the coldest it has been when I’ve been here was -50, still cold enough that you have to cover up all of your skin or it starts to freeze pretty quickly.
I like going outside in the cold as you can freeze your hair and eyelashes and even grow snotsicles from your nose!
In summer here though (December, January, Februrary) it can get above freezing and its getting warmer. The part of Antarctica I live in now has warmed faster than just about anywhere else on the planet over the past 50 years.

I love living here! It’s really beautiful, I see penguins on my way to work and I can go skiing and snowboarding at the weekends. Also, I get to live in a big house with all my friends which is lots of fun.