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Option 1: December 23, a freak warm front hits Antarctica. Temperatures hit 2 C / 36 F in the interior of the continent, and rain falls on Amundsen Scott. The warm front lasts just a few hours, and temperatures fall back to below -20 C / -4 F.
Option 2: January 9, a freak cold front hits Singapore. The front comes in such a way that most of Southeast Asia stays between 7-12 C (44-54 F), but Singapore gets 1 C / 34 F and snow.
Option 3: July 14, uncharted Sahara Desert. Temperatures soar to 75 C / 167 F. The world temperature record is recorded on an unmanned weather station and the record is smashed.
Option 4: August 31, Vostok, Antarctica - the cold breaks the limits of possibility, and -150 C / -238 F is seen. The researchers are huddled inside and are fine.
Option 5: January 25, 50 mi / 80 km from Arica, Chile - a thunderstorm hits and gives 4" of rain to the Atacama Desert.
Option 6: May 4, unpopulated Kansas - A tornado with supersonic winds hits an unpopulated area. No property is damaged and no one is hurt, but the tornado has winds of 800 mph.
Think that option 5 is the ONLY one that MIGHT be even possible in the current climate.....
Anyone else have any thoughts on this???
Option 1 would actually be the most disastrous; can you imagine how much icecap would melt in that little time if the South Pole was to get above freezing the coast of Antarctica would get above room temperature resulting in fast rising sea levels in a few day's time resulting in drowning of many coastal cities. Hope 1 NEVER happens.
Option 1 would actually be the most disastrous; can you imagine how much icecap would melt in that little time if the South Pole was to get above freezing the coast of Antarctica would get above room temperature resulting in fast rising sea levels in a few day's time resulting in drowning of many coastal cities. Hope 1 NEVER happens.
If the warm front lasts only a few hours, it will do nothing to the sea level. It would take much more time to get a globally significant amount of ice to melt.
IMO, the speeds the OP described about as possible as the snow in Singapore scenario....maybe could happen in an drastically altered climate but not in earth's present state.
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