The poles of the planet are experiencing a heat wave that is more than 70 degrees warmer than average and the areas of the north are more than 30 degrees warmer than average.
The region neared autumn as weather stations shattered records Friday. The two-mile high of the Concordia station was 10 degrees, which is 70 degrees warmer than average, while the even higher Vostok station hit a shade above zero degrees.
The Terra Nova Base was well above freezing.
The National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, was surprised by it because they were paying attention to the warming of the North Pole, which is unusual for mid-March.
They are not the same season. The poles are melting at the same time, but you don't see it.
It's pretty stunning.
Wow. Ted Scambos, a University of Colorado ice scientist, said that he had never seen anything like this before.
Matthew Lazzara of the University of Wisconsin said that it was not a good sign.
The Dome C-ii has a normal temperature of -45 degrees, but Lazzara recorded a temperature of 14 degrees on Friday. January is summer there. That is dramatic.
Both Lazzara and Meier said that the weather event in Antarctica was probably random and not a sign of climate change. They said that it might be something to worry about if it happens again or repeatedly.
The Washington Post reported on the warm spell in the South Pole.
The University of Maine's Climate Reanalyzer shows that the average temperature of the entire continent on Friday was 8.6 degrees warmer than it was in 1979. Think of it as if the entire United States was 8 degrees hotter than normal, because that 8-degree heating over an already warmed-up average is unusual.
The average temperature in the northern part of the planet was 3.3 degrees warmer than it was in 1979.
The world as a whole was only 1.1 degrees above the 1979 to 2000 average. The 20th century average is half a degree warmer than the 1979 to 2000 average.
The southern part of the planet has not been warming as much as the rest of the planet, and that makes it weird.
The snow and ice data center reported that the lowest summer sea ice in the world happened in February.
The warm and moist air from the Pacific likely pumped in a big atmospheric river.
Warm Atlantic air was coming north off the coast of Greenland, which is considered to be vulnerable to climate change, because it has been warming two to three times faster than the rest of the globe.
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