Arctic is "Super Hot"?????

[arctic_gardener]

It NEVER gets to minus 60 (C or F) at the North Pole. Not sure what you're on about...Those kinds of temperatures are seen only in Siberia and interior Alaska and interior Yukon in the northern hemisphere, not at the Pole which is all frozen ocean.

Today's high at the Pole was around the freezing point. Yes, that IS super-hot. It would be super-hot even in Winnipeg.

[Ethereal]

This topic could've easily been in my Weather Chat Thread, though....

Really didn't need its own thread.

[Shalop]

Originally Posted by arctic_gardener

Those kinds of temperatures are seen only in Siberia and interior Alaska and interior Yukon in the northern hemisphere, not at the Pole which is all frozen ocean.

Not exactly. It also reaches that mark within the interior parts of Greenland (atop the highest parts of the ice sheet), which is where that station in the tweet is reporting from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_Camp#Climate

A typical winter at Summit Camp will reach a minimum around -60C / -75F. It has already reached -58C on Nov 24th, probably the coldest recorded temp in the NH so far this winter season!

You can search through unofficial records here:

https://www.wunderground.com/history...lyHistory.html

http://www.summitcamp.org/status/weather/

Originally Posted by nei

More interesting than the wording is the summit cam is showing -60°F, wasn't the average much warmer?

minus 60 there is about 5F lower than the average low right now; it's nothing unusual.

[mildvader]

Originally Posted by Shalop

Not exactly. It also reaches that mark within the interior parts of Greenland (atop the highest parts of the ice sheet), which is where that station in the tweet is reporting from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summit_Camp#Climate

A typical winter at Summit Camp will reach a minimum around -60C / -75F. It has already reached -58C on Nov 24th, probably the coldest recorded temp in the NH so far this winter season!

You can search through unofficial records here:

https://www.wunderground.com/history...lyHistory.html

summit:status:weather



minus 60 there is about 5F lower than the average low right now; it's nothing unusual.

here are all the monthly all-time highs and lows for summit camp.




Vejrekstremer_gr: DMI

[ChocoTaco369]

Originally Posted by AJ1013

I have no major issue with them calling it "super-hot". Using the term "Record Warmth" or perhaps "Over 30F above average" would have been better but inconsequentially so. The arctic IS extremely warm compared to normal, as is much of the world right now, and as long as they don't use falsified statistics in their claims of warmth, I see no problems in this article.

This is technically false.

Considering 53 million years ago Antarctica was covered in palm trees, things aren't very warm on Earth right now. In the 100 years of usable weather history we have on this 4.5 billion year old rock (which is 0.0000000222% of the Earth's weather history) we are in a slightly warmer period. However, we still have not recovered from the most recent Ice Age.

The Earth is far below average temperature historically, and considering every year the sun is getting hotter and hotter, that's saying something.

Ultimately, our weather history means absolutely nothing given the age of the Earth and anyone that thinks otherwise is off their rocker. The dinosaurs roamed a much warmer planet. Must've been all those dinosaur farts causing global warming.