The Washington Post reports that weather conditions at the North Pole are abnormally warm for the beginning of winter.
It's polar night there now — the sun isn't rising in much of the Arctic. That's when the Arctic is supposed to get super-cold, when the sea ice that covers the vast Arctic Ocean is supposed to grow and thicken.
[...] "It's about 20C [36 degrees Fahrenheit] warmer than normal over most of the Arctic Ocean, along with cold anomalies of about the same magnitude over north-central Asia," Jennifer Francis, an Arctic specialist at Rutgers University, said by email Wednesday.
"The Arctic warmth is the result of a combination of record-low sea-ice extent for this time of year, probably very thin ice, and plenty of warm/moist air from lower latitudes being driven northward by a very wavy jet stream."
No one quoted in the article speaks about Global Warming, but they all think the situation in the Arctic is anomalous and are interesting in learning more about its causes.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday November 21 2016, @11:24PM
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Says that being ~20C out is a 96th-97th percentile thing, so would be expected about once every 15 years.
Never trust any graph without error bars or some SD-related bands.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 22 2016, @12:51AM
Last December the Washington Post had news about "Freak storm pushes North Pole 50 degrees above normal to melting point." [washingtonpost.com] In January 2014 it was "North Pole invades U.S.: 10 bitter, bone-chilling visuals". [washingtonpost.com] In March 2013, the alarm was over "Climate change will open up surprising new Arctic shipping routes [washingtonpost.com]." It's just weather.