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  • 11 months later...
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  • Location: Alston, Cumbria
  • Weather Preferences: Proper Seasons,lots of frost and snow October to April, hot summers!
  • Location: Alston, Cumbria
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Indeed, nice to see that the Greenland Icecap is still very cold.  I sometimes check the data from the AWS at Summit, almost 3000 metres up on the Greenland Icecap and air temperatures below -50C are commonplace  from November through March; minima down to -60C occur in most winters. 

Summit, Greenland has to be the new "Cold Pole" since Verkhoyansk and Omyakron in NE Siberia struggle to get below -55C in most years (possibly related to global warming and a weaker Siberian High in winter- with the Ferrel Westerlies pushing along the North Russian Coast, this never used to happen in winter during the 1970s and early 1980s). 

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  • Location: Nuneaton 300ft
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and heatwave
  • Location: Nuneaton 300ft
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1 hour ago, iapennell said:

Indeed, nice to see that the Greenland Icecap is still very cold.  I sometimes check the data from the AWS at Summit, almost 3000 metres up on the Greenland Icecap and air temperatures below -50C are commonplace  from November through March; minima down to -60C occur in most winters. 

Summit, Greenland has to be the new "Cold Pole" since Verkhoyansk and Omyakron in NE Siberia struggle to get below -55C in most years (possibly related to global warming and a weaker Siberian High in winter- with the Ferrel Westerlies pushing along the North Russian Coast, this never used to happen in winter during the 1970s and early 1980s). 

At the moment not much between them but wikipedia sums it up nicely

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of_Cold

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In the northern hemisphere, there are two places in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Siberia, Russia that vie for the honour of being considered the "Pole of Cold" in winter. These are Verkhoyansk (located at 67°33′N 133°23′E) and Oymyakon (located at 63°15′N 143°9′E). However central Greenland, especially Eismitte also claims that honour with winter temperatures as low as the Russian stations and above all with a clearly lower average annual temperature −30.0 °C (−22.0 °F) than Oymyakon (−15.5 °C (4.1 °F) and Verkhoyansk (−14.5 °C (5.9 °F)).

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  • 2 weeks later...
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  • Location: Alston, Cumbria
  • Weather Preferences: Proper Seasons,lots of frost and snow October to April, hot summers!
  • Location: Alston, Cumbria
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I wonder what the possibilities are for going there for a special Ultra Cold Holiday in mid-February:  I know that there are flights to Greenland via Denmark, but getting to Summit to be in amongst some of this exciting weather (-50C and views of the aurora across the ice-sheet) might be a bit tricky.

Sure beats a trip to Scotland or to the Alps at the moment where there is not much snow let alone far-below-zero temperatures!

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  • Location: bingley,west yorks. 100 asl
  • Location: bingley,west yorks. 100 asl
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Hope they don't get modified too much them winds next week ;

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  • Location: Bulmer, Near Sudbury, Suffolk
  • Weather Preferences: As long as it's not North Sea muck, I'll cope.
  • Location: Bulmer, Near Sudbury, Suffolk
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It sounds just the place for Karyo's summer hols!:p

  • 2 years later...
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  • Location: Napier, New Zealand
  • Weather Preferences: Interesting Synoptics.
  • Location: Napier, New Zealand
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Resurrecting this thread for a brief look at Cape Morris Jessup which as we all know is named after the American philanthropist who financed Robert Peary's expedition to Greenland in 1900. Peary believed that Cape Morris Jessup was the most northerly piece of solid land - the North Pole being surrounded by water or ice.

In 1980, the DMI or Danmarks Meteorologisk Institut set up a weather station.

As you might imagine, it doesn't normally get warm at this time of year at Cape Morris Jessup and yesterday was only the third occasion since 1980 that the temperature moved above freezing for a 24 hour period in February

The first was in 2011 and the second last year.

http://www.dmi.dk/nyheder/arkiv/nyheder-2018/februar/plusgrader-i-nordgroenland/

The rise in temperature was attributed to a Foehn-type wind which develops when warmer air and an HP set up over the Greenland plateau and draws in a long-fetch SE'ly of warmer air.

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