seriously disabled Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Does anyone know the current temperature on the top of mount Mckinley in Alaska? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 42? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seriously disabled Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 42? You mean 42 degree celcius? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangloss Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 I think he's making a joke. The current temperature varies from moment to moment. I'm not sure why you would ask for that sort of information on a forum. Were you looking for more of an average? And have you checked typical information sources such as Google or the Wikipedia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seriously disabled Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 (edited) The peak of Mount Denali at 6194 meters is probably the second coldest place on earth along with Vostok station in Antarctica. The combintion of high latitude (63°4′10″N) and it's very high elevation is what makes mount Mckinley very cold - I mean super-cold. Weather underground shows a temperature of -43.3 in Denali national park at an elevation of only 646 meters. So by extrapolation I guess the temperature on the peak of the mountain should be about -93°C which is probably the lowest temperature on earth. Edited January 3, 2009 by Uri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangloss Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 Was that a question, or more of a conversation-starter? It certainly sounds cold to this Floridian! (shiver) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seriously disabled Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 Was that a question, or more of a conversation-starter? It certainly sounds cold to this Floridian! (shiver) No it was a question. I would really like to know the actual temperature because all I got for now is my estimation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/mt_mckinley/ http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/mt_mckinley/mt_mckinley_weather.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seriously disabled Posted January 3, 2009 Author Share Posted January 3, 2009 (edited) http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/mt_mckinley/http://www.iarc.uaf.edu/mt_mckinley/mt_mckinley_weather.php On the same site, the link showing the complete data set is not working: http://nika.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/tmp/denali/processed_data Edited January 3, 2009 by Uri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
npts2020 Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 There are no weather stations at the peak of Mt. McKinley, so you have to extrapolate from the link iNow provided. Those instruments are about 1500 ft in elevation below the summit and one of only two monitoring stations in the world above 18,000 ft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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