Antarctica Just Had Its Coldest Season Ever. Here’s Why

dailycaller.com ^ | 10/4/2021 | THOMAS CATENACCI

[rktman]

The South Pole recorded its coldest season since climate scientists began tracking temperatures on the continent in 1957, The Washington Post reported.

Antarctica’s average temperature over the last six months was minus 78 degrees, or 4.5 degrees below the average recorded over the previous 30 years, The Washington Post reported. The temperatures were recorded between April and September — Antarctica’s winter months — at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Temperatures even touched minus 100, at times, University of Wisconsin Scientists Matthew Lazzara told the Post.

Scientists pointed to a major polar vortex that swept through the southern continent as the likely cause for low temperatures, the Post reported.

“Basically, the winds in the polar stratosphere have been stronger than normal, which is associated with shifting the jet stream toward the pole,” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Scientist Amy Butler said, according to the Post. “This keeps the cold air locked up over much of Antarctica.”

[rktman]

Pfffttttt! We all know that's unpossible because CO2. (On record. Anything prior to records is moot.)

[MrRelevant]

Well .....global warming obviously

[rktman]

Well, the u.n. is fully aware:

While Antarctica has experienced lower temperatures than expected this year, the rest of the world has warmed, according to climate scientist Zack Labe. In addition, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report in August, projecting that the world will continue to warm through 2050.

“The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement. “Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible.”

[rightwingcrazy]

“One cold winter is interesting but doesn’t change the long term trend, which is warming”

A theory that can never be disproven. Colder = weather. Warmer = climate.

[marktwain]

Yes. Climate Change means everything and nothing.

Temps up, Temps down, floods, drought, no change. All covered by the "Climate Change" moniker.

Not science, a new religion.

[cuban leaf]

But the trend is not “warming”. That is the lie.

[caww]

I live in an area where the jet stream wobbles so we never know what we’re going to get. Few hours away from here last year they were bombarded with snow...here just light coating.

[DPMD]

Yes, we know the trend is not warming. And why is that? Global warming.

[rktman]

Us too. We get split atmospheric rivers and get missed. Other times we get backdoor sliders and get dumped on.

[teeman8r]

climate change is always happening...

i wonder if the antarctic will ever have ice again.

[teeman8r]

oops. i forgot the Blah blah blah

[caww]

Only thing I do is prepare for the worst....so of course I’m always prepared because we often don’t get hit. Last year we were light on snow storms most of the winter....just two or three required I dig out around the SUV. All the rest bypassed us.

[FreeReign]

Scientists pointed to a major polar vortex that swept through the southern continent...

A polar vortex doesn't "sweep through" a polar region. It forms over it.

[gitmo]

We only have 10 weeks to stop Global Warming before we all die.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"The Washington Post reported."

It must have been very fine print.

[brownsfan]

“Not science, a new religion.”

Sadly, younger, fully indoctrinated Americans are true believers. Those believers would never admit it’s a religion, but they adhere to it, defend it, and ignore facts as if it were a religion.

[Osage Orange]

I was guessing Hillary and Pelosi..went down there..and their combined cold hearted bitches drove down the Temp’s.............

[KamperKen]

"I live in an area where the jet stream wobbles so we never know what we’re going to get"

During a solar minimum the jet stream becomes 'wavy' and one gets weather like what was experienced this year and during the Maunder and Dalton minima, the year 1816 aka "The Year Without Summer", being the most intense during Dalton Minimum." During the Maunder Minimum one year had record cold followed the next year by record heat. Despite that, the overall trend was major cooling then like we have right now.

As expected the climate 'scientists' are claiming it was a hot year despite the fact that both hemispheres were very cold simultaneously, the heat wave in the North American West notwithstanding. These same 'scientists' claimed that the winter of 2021 would be mild. Their predictions like their 'science' is worthless and fraudulent.

One group, I believe Russia-based, correctly predicted what happened this past winter and they predict that same type of cold front that hit the Midwest and Texas striking Western North America during the winter of 2022.

[caww]

Well Farmers Almanac saying colder winter this year in US....brittle in fact.

[KamperKen]

"Well Farmers Almanac saying colder winter this year in US....brittle in fact.

I read that and also read that their proprietary methodology I believe is based among other things the solar cycles. This is the go-to source for weather predictions for farmers, not the NOAA or the British MET. I guess it's time to order a copy.