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

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).

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.

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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.

"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.

ROFLMAO!

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

Sysadmin explained on 04/10/2021 :

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

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

but only on the peninsula - elsewhere its gaining ice

Who that knows anything about it says so?

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

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

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).