A Weather Underground reporting station at Argentina’s Esperanza Base on the Antarctic Penninsula recorded a temperature of 63.5 deg. F (17 deg. C) last Tuesday (24 Mar 2015):
Weather Underground bloggers Jeff Masters and Bob Henson write Tuesday’s 63.5F reading bests the previous record mark of 63.3F set just the day before [March 23] at Argentina’s Marambio Base (a small islet off the Antarctic Peninsula) and a prior reading of 62.8F (also from Esperanza Base) from April 24, 1961.
Tuesday’s new record is not yet official. Argentina’s Esperanza Base, the site of the record, may not be considered part of Antarctica for the purposes of weather records according to Weather Underground historian Christopher Burt. He explains four different ways Antarctica can be defined in a blog post. Ultimately, for the record to be official, the World Meteorological Organization will need to validate the temperature reading and determine it is, in fact, Antarctic.
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This week’s possible temperature record was setup by a large, warm ridge of high pressure – or heat dome – originating from southern South America that extended over the Antarctic Peninsula. The intensity of this weather system was almost off-the-charts, judging by the purple shades on the map below, portraying the difference from normal conditions:
Perhaps those tired of winter in the Northern Hemisphere ought to consider a vacation in the balmy Antarctic Penninsula.
This story has also been covered by National Geographic and Science Recorder .
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 02 2015, @06:33AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 02 2015, @07:02AM
EH?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground_(weather_service) [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday April 02 2015, @07:06AM
Gotta love their sense of humor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 02 2015, @07:00AM
Beware invasion by aliens seeking weapons of incredible powa.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by aristarchus on Thursday April 02 2015, @07:02AM
So soon after April Fools we have to have an article that is going to bring out the Climate Change Denial Fools? Or is this just late? Still 4/1 where I am! Good. I am taking this as at the same level as the 40-story Gerbil, only with more science.
Which reminds me: hmm, totally off topic here, but there is a strange push to have something called "numeracy" added to educational goals. I guess kids these days can't do math. I am all for math, I use it all the time on my smart phone calculator to figure tips. But the strange thing I noticed, in some of the arguments about how college grads should understand quantities, was that two issues kept coming up: Vaccines and autism, and Anthropogenic Global Warming. So I guess, if only our mathematically challenged climate deniers had gone to college (wait! Ungrounded assumption?) later, after these new 'rithmetic 'quirments were put in, we would not be having this debate? Or is it true that Oil Company money trumps both math and science, and honesty?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 02 2015, @07:05AM
Die, humans! Your habitat is being heated by invisible demons and you are as complacent as boiling frogs in a pot.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 02 2015, @07:08AM
Especially the French.
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Thursday April 02 2015, @08:32AM
Die, humans! Your habitat is being heated by invisible demons and you are as complacent as boiling frogs in a pot.
It's all the fault of that bloody summoner, James Clerk Maxwell [wikipedia.org]!
Stupid demon is supposed to put the *fast* molecules *out* of the atmosphere and keep the slow ones *in*.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 02 2015, @08:43AM
He tried. But he was found to violate the second law of thermodynamics, and therefore was imprisoned somewhere outside this universe.
(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Thursday April 02 2015, @05:47PM
I'm not stupid! I just thought you humans don't like to suffocate.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 02 2015, @07:41AM
https://data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxyvchLFXx1r1ylbfo1_500.jpg [tumblr.com]
(Score: 2) by gidds on Thursday April 02 2015, @01:53PM
So whatwas the highest temperature ever recorded last Tuesday?
And how does it compare to previous daily maxima?
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(Score: 4, Informative) by LancePodstrong on Thursday April 02 2015, @02:32PM
I didn't even have to read the fucking article, the info you seek is right in the summary:
Weather Underground bloggers Jeff Masters and Bob Henson write Tuesday’s 63.5F reading bests the previous record mark of 63.3F set just the day before [March 23] at Argentina’s Marambio Base (a small islet off the Antarctic Peninsula) and a prior reading of 62.8F (also from Esperanza Base) from April 24, 1961.