Throw up a cup of boiling water into the air and it comes down as snow if the temperature plunges to -40°C, writes USM’s Muka Head Marine Research Station director ASSOC PROF DR ZULFIGAR YASIN as he heads for Hobart, Australia, after leading the Malaysian team’s 10-week expedition to the white continent.
ANTARCTICA is a cold place but cold is experiential. It is seldom a number on the thermometer. It manifests itself in the events following that drop in temperature.
