[OT] South Pole Sees Record Cold Winter, Smashing 1976 Record ? ?Chill Was Exceptional?"

[Spike]

(Thanks to Lawrence of uk.sci.weather for the info)

The BBC et al probably won't run this story in the same manner as a record high.

Full story at:

"South Pole Sees Record Cold Winter, Smashing 1976 Record ? ?Chill Was Exceptional?"

"The previous record was -60.6°C in 1976.

Operated by United States Antarctic Program, the South Pole station this past summer was ?the coldest on record, dating back to 1957,? noted the climate alarmist Washington Post, and had to concede the event was ?impressive and unexpected?.

?Overheating planet? leading to more ice?

Struggling to reconcile the contradictory South Pole result with its claims of an overheating planet, the WaPo added: ?both Antarctica and the planet continue to rapidly warm? ? just before admitting: ?The extreme cold over Antarctica helped push sea ice levels surrounding the continent to their fifth-highest level on record in August.?"

"The Washington Post?s suggestion that Antarctica ?continues to warm rapidly? is also contradicted by recent studies showing the entire South Pole continent has in fact cooled since data recording began in the 1950s."

[Andy Bennet]

Cherry picking one event does not change the fact that the general Antarctic temperature is rising.

GENEVA, 1 July 2021 (WMO) - The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has recognized a new record high temperature for the Antarctic continent of 18.3° Celsius on 6 February 2020 at the Esperanza station (Argentina).

[Chris Hogg]

Cherry picking one event does not change the fact that the general Antarctic temperature is falling.

The situation is confusing, and cherry picking is rife. There is also a significant amount of volcanic activity under part of Antarctica, that adds to the confusion, but has only been discovered in the last decade or so.

More links here:

[Max Demian]

How long before we can book holidays on Antarctica beaches?

[JNugent]

QUOTE: "South Pole Sees Record Cold Winter, Smashing 1976 Record ? ?Chill Was Exceptional?" "The previous record was -60.6°C in 1976. ENDQUOTE

Those of us over a certain age may be surprised by that, remembering that the summer of 1976 is famous for the (northern hemisphere) record-breaking heatwave.

[Spike]

"Record Antarctic winter this year (April to September) at the Amundsen?Scott South Pole Station with average of -61.1 ° C, the coldest on record."

January's reporting has been comprehensively overtaken by later events.

Cherry picking one event does not change the fact that the general Antarctic temperature is falling.

"The Washington Post?s suggestion that Antarctica ?continues to warm rapidly? is also contradicted by recent studies showing the entire South Pole continent has in fact cooled since data recording began in the 1950s".

That's cooled, as over the last ~70 years. See Lawrence's post.

[The Natural Philosopher]

ROFLMAO!

[Sysadmin]

With a fixed amount of energy, if it gets warmer in one region it will get cooler in another, like a heat pump.

[Harry Bloomfield, Esq.]

Sysadmin explained on 04/10/2021 :

It is not a fixed amount of heat - The sun provides the heat, the earth reradiates that energy.

[Chris Bacon]

Not this crap again. So wht's antarctica losing land ice?

[The Natural Philosopher]

but only on the peninsula - elsewhere its gaining ice

[Chris Bacon]

Who that knows anything about it says so?

[Fredxx]

Some models predicted more precipitation over the Antarctic from global warming with a corresponding thickening of the ice that would make sea levels fall.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

Well, that is probably due to wind chill effects it is one of the windiest places on the planet and now you know where to put your wind turbines. However around the edges the sea temperatures are higher than normal and I guess its this differential that makes for high winds. I've always been interested in climate but it is a very complex animal to figure out with so many variables. Brian

[Tim Streater]

The high winds have always been there, as Capt. Scott could tell you. Remember that there's 10,000 feet of ice at the South Pole.

From Winky:

A katabatic wind (named from the Greek word ????????? katabasis, meaning "descending") is a drainage wind, a wind that carries high-density air from a higher elevation down a slope under the force of gravity.

Katabatic winds are most commonly found blowing out from the large and elevated ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland. The buildup of high density cold air over the ice sheets and the elevation of the ice sheets brings into play enormous gravitational energy. Where these winds are concentrated into restricted areas in the coastal valleys, the winds blow well over hurricane force, reaching around 300 km/h (190 mph).