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North Pole at Melting Point

posted by martyb on Tuesday December 27 2016, @09:29PM   
from the elves-working-overtime dept.

butthurt writes:

SoylentNews had a story last month about temperatures in the Arctic that were 20°C (36°F) warmer than usual. That was just a warm up.

Richard James, who holds a doctorate in meteorology, found November produced the most anomalously warm Arctic temperatures of any month on record after analyzing data from 19 weather stations.

In the middle of the month, the temperature averaged over the entire Arctic north of 80 degrees latitude spiked to 36 degrees [Fahrenheit] above normal.

— Chicago Tribune

Now, storm activity around Greenland has caused a warm spell in the vicinity of the North Pole, with temperatures 50°F (28°C) higher than usual.

As of the morning of Thursday, December 22 (3 a.m. EST), the International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP), operated out of the University of Washington, recorded temperatures from these buoy[s] up to 0°C or slightly higher.

—The Weather Network

There was a similar pattern of unusually warm weather in the Arctic in November and December of 2015.

The warm spell [...] marks the second straight December of freakish warmth spreading across the Arctic due to weird weather patterns.

— USA Today

additional coverage:

• Washington Post
• Science Alert
• CBS News
• Gizmodo
• Scientific American
• WITI-TV (Fox)

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Original Submission

• Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 28 2016, @09:37AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 28 2016, @09:37AM (#446603)

  So does Venus.

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• Re:Big Climate wins again ! ! ! (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday December 28 2016, @10:09AM

  by khallow (3766) on Wednesday December 28 2016, @10:09AM (#446612) Journal

  So does Venus.

  And it is quite regulated too.

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