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).
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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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Which human event caused the last Ice age?
I firmly believe “climate change” will be used as the great impetus to usher in control of the Antichrist.
Well heck it was warmer here than usual as well....which I greatly appreciated.
This is being reported as Democrats are asking Potato Puppet Joe to declare a “climate emergency” and have him ban gas leases and subsidies on federal lands. Trying to back door this eco crap as the world is occupied with Ukraine.
Its still very very cold there, but, it will take you a few seconds longer to die from exposure.
Underground volcanic eruption?
Might get to see the trees there again one day. Trees in Antarctica? There were when it was warmer 100 million years ago. Climate change is part of earth’s history.
Antarctica have seen temperatures hover 70 degrees (40 Celsius) above normal ...
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40 C is 104 F. WaPo reporters can’t get basic math right, but we can trust them on hysteric climate warming chatter.
Blame the Russians....all of those vehicles and tanks moving around raised the global temperatures. It’s all Vlad’s fault.
So where is eastern Antarctica?
Ice, even in the Antarctica, doesn't melt at zero to ten degrees, so what's the big deal.
When the temperature gets to 32 or above, then the ice will begin to melt.
Anything to cover for the biden shit show, both joe and hunter, corrupt crooks and perverts.
Apple/tree.
Yeah!
LOL
Middle Earth
I mean its a circle right?
So the scientist are pretty pretentious in that depending where THEY are standing, there is an east and a west.
lol
wow.
It’s called “weather.”
I wonder what temperature they believe the Earth is supposed to be, and what magical way they would measure it?
Climate change?
Meh.
The AC has pandemics, wars and “supply chain disruptions” that’ll work just fine.
What are they panicked about? Do they think the Thing will melt free? Maybe the Predator training complex. Or could it be that if the ice melts, the subterranean reptile people will come to the surface again? Actually, it think deep down they fear that if the ice melts, they may find ancient farms and settlements. That would crush all of their global warming fear mongering.
And at one point Antarctica had a tropical climate…
Interesting event, but proof of man made climate change? Not in and of itself
“40 C is 104 F. WaPo reporters can’t get basic math right, but we can trust them on hysteric climate warming chatter.”
Good catch. I would also remind the media that it is still late SUMMER in Antarctica.
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