Figure 3. Freezing bed at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin.
Table 1. Monthly average air temperatures and insolation
at McMurdo Station, Antarctica (after USA Today Climate
2000).*
Average
Average
high
low
Average
temperature temperature temperature
Insolation
(C)
(C)
(C)
(W/m2)
Month
January
0.6
5.6
3.1
327
February
6.1
11.7
8.9
180
March
14.4
20.0
17.2
49
April
17.8
24.4
21.1
4
May
18.9
26.7
22.8
0
June
18.9
26.7
22.8
0
July
21.1
30.0
25.5
0
August
22.8
31.7
27.2
1
September
20.6
28.9
24.7
27
October
15.5
22.8
19.2
119
November
6.7
12.8
9.7
255
December
1.1
6.1
3.6
359
*Personal Communication with J.S. Thompson, Air Force Combat Cli-
matology Center, Asheville,North Carolina, 2000.
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