No one kept the microphone for long: we were on a treeless slope in temperatures far below freezing.
There are other such "heat islands," researchers say, which have temperatures far warmer than the surrounding landscape.
In the Arctic, where most glaciers have temperatures far below the freezing point, the snow changes into ice slowly.
They found that cities tend to have temperatures far warmer than the surrounding landscape, in many cases up to 10 degrees warmer.
The thing people should know about the sea is that surface temperatures can fluctuate all over the place, but we're not measuring the temperatures far down below.
He grew up there as the fifth of nine children, playing hockey outdoors with makeshift equipment, the prairie winds raging and temperatures far below zero.
The real reason for that year's cold, though, was the Storm of the Century, which helped usher in temperatures far below normal across the eastern US.
The indication that it could be reversible is rare good news for a region where climate change has driven up temperatures far faster than the global average.
Some of the climbers did not reach the summit until around 8 p.m. — some 16 hours after they had set off, a terrifying expanse of time in temperatures far below zero, with so little oxygen to feed minds and muscles.
