What is the actual temperature of the water in the ocean in Antarctica?
The temperature varies with depth. At the surface, the temperature is never far from 32 degrees Fahrenheit. It can be 32 degrees and not frozen, of course, because it is salty. Have you ever been caught out in an Antarctic storm? If so what was it like? We had only one storm. I didn’t rain much but the wind blew fairly hard. Palmer station does get a fair amount of snow in the winter – about 13 feet. Does the hut get cold and lonely at night? I worked very hard at Palmer Station, so I didn’t stay in the hut long enough to get lonely. I often went there after midnight and left as soon as I woke up, at 6:30 or so in the morning. With so much light, it is hard to sleep very long! The temperature at Palmer never went very far below freezing, so the hut was not terribly cold. Because it is so small, my body heat probably warmed it up a little. However I was a little chilly. My sleeping bag is supposed to keep me warm down to 10 degrees Fahrenheit, but I was a little cool nonetheless. But I
