How cold is Mount Everest

As we all know, Mount Everest is the highest mountain on the earth, the height is 8848 meters, at such a high altitude, the air pressure is also very low, and the air is extremely thin, coupled with the plateau effect, the wind speed on Mount Everest and its fierceness, the top, and the mountainside is a cloudy scene because the environment on Mount Everest is very harsh, mountaineers want to challenge themselves on Mount Everest. Before climbing the mountain, in addition to planning the climbing route, they must also have an understanding of the temperature corresponding to different heights, so what is the temperature at the top of Mount Everest and how cold is it?

There are several weather stations on Mount Everest because the summit of Mount Everest is too high, Mount Everest does not set up a weather station, the highest weather station on Mount Everest is only 5050 meters, there are still three or four hundred meters away from the top, and the weather station is not a standard for calculating the temperature at the top of the mountain.

The weather station cannot be used as the basis for the temperature of the peak, and the temperature of the summit of Mount Everest can be roughly measured according to the relevant formula. High mountains above sea level, every 100 meters of height, its corresponding temperature will drop by 0.6 degrees, through calculations it is not difficult to know that the temperature of the summit of Mount Everest is 53 ° lower than that of the ground, and the latitude of Mount Everest is about 30 degrees, even in summer, the summit of Mount Everest will be -20 degrees.

Of course, the above is only a speculative result and is not accurate. According to the temperature provided by the climber, the highest temperature at the summit of Everest is in July and August, the temperature is around -17 degrees, and the coldest reaches -30 degrees. So far, the lowest temperature measured at the summit of Everest is -41 degrees, but scientists speculate that the temperature at the summit of Everest will reach -61 degrees. Mount Everest for the ground, close to the sun, close to the sun, the temperature should be higher, in fact not, because the altitude of Mount Everest is high, the air at the top is thin, can not retain the heat of the sun, the temperature at the top becomes very low, in addition, the summit of Mount Everest covers glaciers, glaciers reflect sunlight, so the temperature of the summit surface is very low.

If the height of Mount Everest exceeds 13 kilometers, the peak temperature increases with the increase in altitude, and more than 13 kilometers belongs to the stratosphere, in the stratosphere, the ozone layer absorbs solar radiation well, so the temperature will be high.