McMurdo/Phoenix Fld
Weather station · 78.0°S 166.8°E · 10 m above sea level
ICAO NZFX
Where McMurdo/Phoenix Fld is
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77.96°S 166.77°E
McMurdo/Phoenix Fld
Ground · satellite
Land surface temperature for 2026-09-24, from NASA GIBS. This is the temperature of the ground seen from orbit, not the air, and it is never ranked against air readings. Cloud hides the ground, so gaps are unread rather than guessed.
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At 02:55 it was −21.0°C. By 03:07 it was −22.0°C. The heat did not hold.
From our dataToday so far at this station, in local time.
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Recent days
Readings on 3 of the 4 days since this site began keeping a daily record. Typically 7 readings a day.
| Day | High | At | Low | At |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-24 | −21.0°C | 14:55 UTC | −22.0°C | 15:07 UTC |
| 2026-09-23 | −21.0°C | 00:15 UTC | −21.0°C | 00:15 UTC |
| 2026-09-22 | −21.0°C | 22:55 UTC | −29.0°C | 16:55 UTC |
Nearby stations
- McMurdo/Williams FldAntarctica12.1 km
- McMurdoAntarctica12.1 km
- Cape RossAntarctica166.7 km
- JANG BOGOAntarctica378.1 km
- Cape PhillipsAntarctica553.2 km
- CONCORDIAAntarctica1141.8 km
Data sources for this page
| Figure | Source | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Latest reading, today so far | NOAA Aviation Weather Center (METAR) and NOAA NWS WMO bulletins (SYNOP) | Measured, station |
| Nearby stations and distances | Computed from station positions in our own database | Calculated |
How these readings are checked
Every reading on this page has passed the checks below. A reading that fails any of them is stored as refused and can never be ranked, shown as a record, or counted in a daily high or low.
No reading from this station has been refused today, which is when readings began being logged against individual stations.
- 01
Has a real position
A reading with no usable latitude and longitude is discarded. It cannot be ranked, mapped, or compared with its neighbours, and a temperature with no place is not an answer to which place is hottest.
- 02
Position is not a placeholder
Some feeds fill an unknown position with a stand-in value such as 99.99 degrees or an elevation of 9999 m. Those are not coordinates. They are caught separately from a missing position because a station placed at a fake point has no neighbours, so the neighbour check below can never see anything wrong with it.
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The bulletin itself is current
SYNOP arrives as files that are only re-read when they change. A file that has stopped being updated is set aside whole, before any reading inside it is considered.
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The reading is recent enough for its network
Different networks get different windows, because they report at different rates: 2 hours for METAR, which transmits continuously, and 9 hours for SYNOP, which reports at 00, 06, 12 and 18 UTC. A single rule would have discarded the entire synoptic network, including every station in Antarctica.
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Inside the range of measured temperature