Santa may need water skis instead of a sleigh this year.
A
weather buoy about 90 miles south of the North Pole registered a temperature at the melting point of 32 degrees (0 Celsius) early Thursday, as a giant storm east of Greenland drew abnormally warm air northward.
Weather models had predicted temperatures could get this warm and this buoy, part of the
North Pole Environmental Observatory, provides validation.
[Pre-Christmas melt? North Pole forecast to warm 50 degrees above normal Thursday]
“It seems likely areas very close to or at the North Pole were at the freezing point” Thursday, said Zachary Labe, a doctoral student researching Arctic climate and weather at the University of California at Irvine.
Data from the buoy (No. 300234064010010, which can be downloaded
here) show that air temperatures have risen more than 40 degrees in the past two days, when they hovered near minus-11 degrees (minus-24 Celsius) which, even then, was above average.
historical records back to 1958, one cannot find a more intense anomaly – except following a similar spike just five weeks ago.
Weather buoy near North Pole hits melting point
Now Comrade Frankie boi, that looks like pretty solid evidence that you are lying one more time.
Lol.
Cherry picking the one buoy at 32.
Just checked the Arctic temperatures sites and it's -19, -20, -4 and 19 the the 4 cardinal points around the circle.
No 50 degree surge
As usual, Comrade Frankie boi provides the low bar for intellect here.
Weather buoy near North Pole hits melting point
Data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center indicate the Arctic lost about 57,000 square miles of ice (148,000 square kilometers) in the past day, which is roughly the size of Illinois. Labe cautioned, however, the ice loss data are preliminary and require quality control.
In Longyearbyen, Norway, which is on the island of Svalbard in the Nordic Seas, the high reached 36 degrees Thursday,
according to Weather Underground, beating the old daily record of 33 degrees.
Although it is common for large storms to transport large quantities of heat into the high Arctic, inducing large temperature swings, the intensity of warmth — more than 40 degrees above normal — has caught the attention of scientists.
This is the second time in the past five weeks such a steep rise in temperatures has occurred. In mid-November, temperatures averaged over the high Arctic were also about 30-35 degrees above normal.
[The North Pole is an insane 36 degrees warmer than normal as winter descends]
An
analysis from Climate Central, a nonprofit science organization, found that a warm event of comparable intensity to what occurred in November “would have been extremely unlikely in a climate of a century ago” before heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere had grown to current levels.