Antarctica May Have Just Set a New All-Time Continental Record High

Weather.com ^ | 02 07 2020 | Jonathan Erdman

[yesthatjallen]

A research base on the Antarctic Peninsula recorded a high of 65 degrees Fahrenheit Thursday.

This topped the all-time record for continental Antarctica, set in 2015.

A nearby station also set a February monthly record on Thursday.

A research station in Antarctica measured what could be the continent's all-time record high temperature, pending later verification.

Esperanza Base, an Argentine research station on the Trinity Peninsula, measured a high temperature of 65.1 degrees Fahrenheit on Thursday.

According to Argentina's National Meteorological Service, this is the warmest temperature on record anywhere on the continent, topping the previous record of 63.5 degrees from March 24, 2015.

SNIP

[yesthatjallen]

65 degrees in late summer in the most northern region of the antarctic sounds about right.

[PGR88]

I’m curious how long this particular research base has been keeping accurate measurements of that area.

10 years? 25 years? 50 years?

[Dilbert San Diego]

ok, that’s it, this proves we have global warming. If people are in shorts and T shirts in Antarctica at that base, that proves we have global warming.

sarcasm, I think.................

[poinq]

Such crap. Its a record only in the fact that its the first recorded temperature that high. On a continent that has not been tested until recently. We are in an ice age on earth. The world can get a lot warmer. Humans can start to use that massive land in Canada and Russia we have not used. The oceans have been higher before. The CO2 has been higher before. The temperatures have been way higher before.

[rx]

If a temperature rise were due to volcanic activity, which activity has recently been reported to be on the increase, that would have nothing to do with a connection to the AGW/GW ruse.

I trust no one here would try to use such information deceptively.

[rktman]

Uh, I’m pretty sure it’s summer there currently.

[spudville]

May have set a record. MAY HAVE? Either it did or didn’t. Records are made to be broken. They are not an outer limit that must never be surpassed.

[VanDeKoik]

I looked at the map of its location and it is literally almost at the far most northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula! Not to mention it’s high summer down there.

Next thing you know people will be shocked that it gets up to 70 in Barrow, Alaska.

[entropy12]

False title. Antarctica records are 200 hundred years old. Antarctica is 2,000,000,000 years old.

The records are less than 0.0001% of Antarctica’s age. To call it all-time high is buffoonery.

Earth is not a stable and fixed for ever planet. Where there is the largest desert on Earth (Sahara) was once middle of an ocean. The landmass of India was once part of Africa, now separated by 2 thousand miles. During the last ice age there were 4 mile thick ice glaciers where now Chicago is.

[old curmudgeon]

Since daily recorded temps in the US did not begin until 1814, 206 years ago, I think it safe to assume there were none recored in Antarctica before that time.

So tell me how anyone can say the present temps indicate anything other than “today the temp was.....”

[old curmudgeon]

You beat me to it with a much better post.

Thanks.

[rx]

Did you mean to respond to me? I didn't use the phrase, "set a record."

[Stosh]

Well, I guess if one confines oneself to the teeny period of time during which humans have been recording temperatures in Antarctica that might be true, but it seems that maybe it was a bit warmer back when the continent was forested:

https://www.livescience.com/40893-weird-ancient-antarctic-forests.html

So maybe when they say “all-time continental record” they mean something other than “all-time”.

[Mr Radical]

All-Time Continental Record High

I wonder whether they mean, all-time since the creation of the antartic continent, or all-time since the creation of the first local weather station in the year 1906?

[spudville]

Sorry, no. I was responding to the title of the article. your “Reply” button must have been closest.

[Repeal The 17th]

I wonder...
do all those diesel generators
have any influence on the measured temperature?


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I wonder...
If I was standing 1 foot to the north of the South Pole,
and I took 1 big step due South,
would I step from Summer into Winter,
and would the temperature suddenly change?

[Robert DeLong]

Like China, can data reported from an Argentinian controlled weather reporting station be trusted as accurate?

I personally have no confidence that they are reporting the truth. The same confidence, little to none, extends to weather.com as well.

[DouglasKC]

Yah, it’s summer.

[BBB333]

1 1/2 miles under the ice, as ice cores have PROVEN, the ice stops, earth is found and — tree trunks are in the core.

Hardly the ‘warmest’ it’s ever been...

[max americana]

well thank God we wont die until 11 years from now s/