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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.
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.
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.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday December 28 2016, @01:49PM
The only minor fine tuning I'd apply is there already seem to be weird limits to weather phenomena such that we never see 600 MPH tornadoes or 300 MPH hurricanes ... ever. In that way to dissipate the energy I suspect we'll see the same plain vanilla stuff we're always saw just more often and slightly larger range.
Like where I live its very difficult geographically and meteorologically to squirt more than maybe 15 inches of snow out of an individual blizzard for some fundamental distance, altitude, grams of water per kg of air limitations. What we're likely to see is not 16 inch blizzards which would require massive geological alterations if not changes in physical laws, but more likely we'll get 1.1 blizzards like that per decade instead of 0.9 now.
Now what would be really exciting is not the sea level rising 1 cm or whatever, but a metastability limit reached such that we get a permanent hurricane like Jupiter's red spot. Now that would be interesting. I think we have too high of a land:water ratio in the tropics for it to happen, however.