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Weather Discussion => International => Topic started by: Mark on October 05, 2021, 06:16:13 PM

Title: THE SOUTH POLE JUST SUFFERED ITS COLDEST ‘WINTER’ IN RECORDED HISTORY
Post by: Mark on October 05, 2021, 06:16:13 PM

Between the months of April and September, the South Pole averaged a temperature of -61.1C (-78F).

Simply put, this was the region’s coldest 6-month spell ever recorded, and it comfortably usurped the previous coldest ‘coreless winter‘ on record — the -60.6C (-77F) set back in 1976 (solar minimum of weak cycle 20).

is confirmed by Antarctica climatology journalist Stefano Di Battista who has closely watched and published research on Antarctic temperatures for many years:


1/1 Extraordinary coreless winter (April – September) at South Pole Station. The average as been -61.1 °C the coldest ever recoded. This value set -2.2 °C on the reference 1981-2010 and -2.5 °C on 1991-2020. Previous record -60.6 °C in 1976 pic.twitter.com/m8uWF5mt0c

— Stefano Di Battista (@pinturicchio_60) October 1, 2021

Battista also points out that for June, July, August and September the average temperature for each of these month finished-up below -60C (-76F) — a phenomenon that has occurred on just 3 previous occasions: in 1971, 1975 and 1978.


https://electroverse.net/the-south-pole-just-suffered-its-coldest-winter-in-recorded-history/

Title: ANTARCTICA NEARS LOW TEMPERATURE RECORD FOR APRIL
Post by: Mark on April 19, 2022, 07:22:32 AM

now 2022 has started in a similarly frigid fashion: Antarctica logged its first sub -70C (-94F) of the season on April 3, at Vostok, but this has just been eclipsed by the French-Italian Antarctic Station Concordia which registered a low of -79.3C (-111F) on April 16 — and to put that reading into context, -79.3C is just 2.5C off the planet’s coldest April temperature ever recorded.

ever since that entirely natural atmospheric river event of March 18 temperatures across Antarctica have been holding BELOW the 1979-2000 average, according to data from the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine.

Today, on Monday, April 18, the anomaly stands at -2.6C:
https://electroverse.net/antarctica-nears-low-temp-record-easter-felt-like-winter-across-n-america-s-americas-frigid-march-threat-of-x-flares/