Where's colder?

Question

North or the south?The Arctic or Antarctic?

Answer 1

Antarctica, near the south pole is much colder than the arctic ocean near the north pole, because it is a continent, and there is no circulating ocean near the south pole. The other reason is that the south pole is over 9,000 feet above sea level; wheras the north pole is close to sea level. In central antarctica (the south pole is towards one side of the continent) it is even colder; and at the soviet station Vostok, a temperature of -128 deg F has been recorded (the world record)

For the same reasons, the coldest place in the northern hemisphere is not the north pole, but Siberia in continental Russia, where a temperature of -90 deg F has been recorded.

Answer 2

Antarctica..And not Siberia. Vostok Russian Antarctic station recorded the lowest tempature on Earth at 129 degress below zero farenheit.

Answer 3

Antarctic.

It's colder because it's largely a land mass, where the Arctic is an ocean. The flowing water prevents the temperature from dropping as low as it does on land.

I believe the coldest temperature reading on earth was in Siberia, however.

Answer 4

Both are about equally cold since the sun only points to the center of the earth and not the top and bottom. But there is a tilt in the earth so that's why we have seasons, whichever part of the planet is farthest away from the sun that's where it's cold at that period of time.

Answer 5

Arctic ,north

Answer 6

it depends on the time of year. March until september is warmer at the north pole but the rest of the year is warmer at the south

Answer 7

south

Answer 8

Antarctic is colder. There is no precipitation at all it is so cold.