On October 15, 2025, the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station (the U.S. research base at the geographic South Pole) recorded a temperature of -61.3°C (-81.34°F) at around 07:00 local time. This marked the lowest October temperature observed at the station since 1981.

This event occurred during the Antarctic spring transition toward summer (October is spring in the Southern Hemisphere), when temperatures typically begin rising from winter lows. Instead, this reading reflected unusually persistent cold conditions, described in some coverage as the coldest October at the station in about 44 years.

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From No Trick Zone

By P Gosselin

Record cold at the South Pole … Amundsen-Scott Station records -61.3°C … coldest October temperature in Southern Hemisphere since 1981.

The German, realist European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) presents its latest video on the subject of Antarctica and contrasts the new records with mainstream media coverage of climate change.

On October 15, 2025, the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station reported a record low temperature of -61.3 degrees Celsius, marking the coldest October temperature measured in the Southern Hemisphere since 1981.

Built on the Antarctic plateau, 2,835 metres above sea level, the station’s all-time low is -82.8°C. Since the seasons are reversed in the southern hemisphere, the Antarctic continent was already in spring in October and should have experienced rising temperatures – at least no lower than in the deep southern winter in August.

The EIKE video criticizes German media outlets (such as “Die Zeit”) for focusing primarily on melting ice and rising sea levels while allegedly ignoring current record-low temperatures in their reporting.

Despite the record cold temperatures on land, Antarctic sea ice reached an extent of only 17.81 million km² in September 2025- the third-lowest value since satellite measurements began.

EIKE argues that no clear, short-term conclusions about global climate development can be drawn due to the contradictory nature of the data (record cold vs. low sea ice).