The continent of Antarctica set a record high temperature last week when a high of 63.5° F was recorded at Argentina's Esperanza Base on the northern extreme of the Antarctic Peninsula. According to Jeff Masters and Bob Henson at Wunderground , this broke the previous record high for the continent set just the day before. Prior to last week's 'heat wave', the warmest temp

What a difference a day makes, or in yesterday’s case -- just 20 minutes. After a wild entrance, the cold air is firmly entrenched today, and will only get colder on Wednesday. Here’s a look at where actual temperatures were at 7am this morning, with wind chill readings in the double digits below 0 across Wyoming and Montana. Snow totals As expected, snow totals were mostly unimpressive with yesterday’s frontal passage -- the bigger story was the cold. Denver managed somewhere around a trace