Posted on 03/19/2022 2:28:14 AM PDT by Libloather
The coldest location on the planet has experienced an episode of warm weather this week unlike any ever observed, with temperatures over the eastern Antarctic ice sheet soaring 50 to 90 degrees above normal. The warmth has smashed records and shocked scientists.
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Parts of eastern Antarctica have seen temperatures hover 70 degrees (40 Celsius) above normal for three days and counting, Wille said. He likened the event to the June heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, which scientists concluded would have been “virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change.
What is considered “warm” over the frozen, barren confines of eastern Antarctica is, of course, relative. Instead of temperatures being minus-50 or minus-60 degrees (minus-45 or minus-51 Celsius), they’ve been closer to zero or 10 degrees (minus-18 Celsius or minus-12 Celsius) - but that’s a massive heat wave by Antarctic standards.
“In about 65 record years in Vostok, between March and October, values above -30°C were never observed,” wrote Di Battista in an email.
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Eastern Antarctica’s Concordia research station, operated by France and Italy and about 350 miles from Vostok, climbed to 10 degrees (minus-12.2 Celsius), its highest temperature on record for any month of the year. Average high temperatures in March are around minus-56 (minus-48.7 Celsius).
**SNIP**
The moisture from the storm diffused and spread over the interior of the continent. However, a strong blocking high pressure system or “heat dome,” moved in over east Antarctica, preventing the moisture from escaping. The heat dome was exceptionally intense, five standard deviations above normal.
The excessive moisture from the atmospheric river was able to retain large amounts of heat, while the liquid-rich clouds radiated the heat down to the surface - known as downward long-wave radiation.
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Fred Flintstone left the fridge door open.
He and Barney were drinking too much beer.
It’s still summer there. For another day, I think.
They aren’t talking about the actual temperature but the swing in temperature. It was a 70 degree swing from -60 to 10 degrees. Make sense?
Where I live, 20,000 years ago was under a mile of ice. It’s been near 70 degrees the last two days. and the record warmest temp for yesterday was 77 degrees in 1903
We see all of this crapola, and there is never an accounting of the predicted vs actual.
Which human event caused the end of the last ice age?
The edges of Antarctica always warm up in the summer from well below zero to sometimes above freezing so much propaganda
I was thinking the same thing. Hm?
This is why I love Free Republic. Comments like your’s.
Not sure how accurate this is, but this weather forecast doesn’t indicate any “heat wave” at Vostok Station:
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/antarctica/vostok-station/ext
just coming out of Summer
Trying to make it sound like it’s burning up with all the gobbledygook numbers but it’s not
Experienced an episode of warm weather this week unlike any ever observed.
Weather has only been recorded for less than 200 years so this new?.
Wait a minute!..
I thought we were down to 8.95 years to survive - about 14 years ago!
Come on, MAN!..
the eastern Antarctic ice sheet
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I thought in Antarctica all directions were north.
The earth has been arbitrarily divided into longitudinal sections, with the starting point (0) meridian going through Greenwich England.
The lines of longitude converge at two points: the poles.
That is the reference point/dividing line, and if you travel from England to America, you are travelling to and in the West. At 180° is the International Date Line. Once you pass that while westbound, you are in the East until you reach Greenwich again.
Eastern Antarctica is the area between our imaginary lines of 0° and 180°. Western Antarctica is the area between our imaginary lines of 180° and 360°/0°.
Clear as mud, right?
LOL And I got that EXACTLY reversed: 0 to 180 is WEST, 180 to 360/0 is EAST. AARGH!
(only 8.95 years left)
The bad news...we only have 8.95 years left.
The good news...I’m taking out a 30 year mortgage with our next home purchase.
What is considered “warm” over the frozen, barren confines of eastern Antarctica is, of course, relative. Instead of temperatures being minus-50 or minus-60 degrees (minus-45 or minus-51 Celsius), they’ve been closer to zero or 10 degrees (minus-18 Celsius or minus-12 Celsius) — but that’s a massive heat wave by Antarctic standards.
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