On Wednesday afternoon the observations for Young showed that Young supposedly had a minimum temperature of -45.9 degrees Celsius at 11.38am on Wednesday, a temperature that you would expect in Antarctica during the middle of winter.

The supposed top recorded for Wednesday came in at 10.36am at 9.3 degrees.

By 1pm and into Thursday the Young station stopped recording all temperatures, however it was still recording wind speed and direction.

So with such a beautiful warm and sunny day what happened that the town recorded south pole temperatures?

Well according to Bureau of Meteorology meteorologist Nigel based in Wagga the temperature gauge failed.

"It rarely ever happens, I've only ever seen in happen once before," Nigel said.

According to Nigel the system began glitching at around 10.24am on Wednesday with his team reporting the issue to be fixed.

"It's obviously wrong," he said. "We reported it on August 26 and hopefully someone will be out there to fix it very soon."

Nigel also said it was fortunate to have happened now.

"At least at the moment we have some clear weather, we've still got frosts and morning fog, but if it was to fail when it was raining or storms were predicted it could have been worse."

Despite some news outlets reporting Young reaching -14 degrees on Wednesday morning it didn't get that cold.