The Blue Ice is colder, but, the rest of the continent is very warm.
Vostak is coldest at -27 Fahrenheit / 33 degrees Celcius. (click on) The humidity is 44% with virtually little wind at 6 mph / 9 km/h. Conditions over the Blue Ice are clear.
When looking to the lower altitudes of Antarctica there is cloud cover and rain. The temperatures are much higher and the only place where there are any kind of significant winds are in the colder temperate areas, such as Davis 76.05S 65.02E, Antarctica where winds are upto 22 mph / 35 km/h out of the southeast. The reason the winds are higher there is because the hotter air is moving into the colder region at an elevation of 7680 feet / 2343 meters.
The warmest regions are also the lower elevations of 63 feet / 19 meters at Williams Field, Antarctica the temperature is 30.2 Fahrenheit / - 1.0 Celcius. On the peninsula is the warmest of all the regions where Base San Martin is 41 degrees Fahrenheit / 5 degrees Celcius. The peninsula is nearly sea level but with even higher latitudes. The peninsula is effected by sea temperatures as it is only a small strip of land surrounded by Anarctic waters.
Of course the lower elevations also coincide with higher latitudes. So the area at the Very South Pole is the coldest and highest in elevation.
Williams Field is the airfield for McMurdo Station (click on). If one notes the map, McMurdo Stations is not only a higher latitude than the south pole, but, also near the sea. The warmth is from the sea surrounding Antarctica called "The East Wind Drift" (click on). That is significant. The waters surrounding the ice continent are far warmer than they should ever be.
