Antarctica Temperature Monitoring + Records

[Kirkcaldy Weather]

 

[Dreckly]

Temperature image currently.

[RebsAbbo]

Will be watching this trend closely, as I’ve just booked my trip to Antarctica!! Having obsessed about it for a year now, finally bit the bullet! Going next November in what will be ‘spring’/start of summer season. Only going to the peninsula of Antarctica so shouldn’t see any extreme temps, expected average temps -9c to -6c.
 

@Wold Topper…del …Ushuaia baby, here I come

Edited February 2, 2023 by RebsAbbo

[ANYWEATHER]

On 02/02/2023 at 02:21, Kirkcaldy Weather said:

 

Will be interesting to see what temperature they get down to in July!!!

[Dreckly]

Data and Imagery -- AMRC / AWS

AMRC.SSEC.WISC.EDU

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The Antarctic Meteorological Research Center (AMRC) and Automatic Weather Station (AWS) program are United States Antarctic Program (USAP) sister projects focusing on observational...

A lot of useful information from AMRC. Also check the links page.

 

 

Edited February 3, 2023 by Dreckly
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[Dreckly]

Also you can get an idea of current weather here:-

Weather for South Pole, Antarctica

WWW.TIMEANDDATE.COM

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Current weather in South Pole and forecast for today, tomorrow, and next 14 days

 

[Astral Goat Juice]

Antarctica’s Summer of Cold Temperatures Persists, Setting New Records - Cold Weather Report

COLDWEATHERREPORT.COM

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Antarctica is cold, but this summer has been colder than most, with record cold temperatures for January being recorded at various permanent international stations on the continent. Record January lows were...

Antarctica is cold, but this summer has been colder than most, with record cold temperatures for January being recorded at various permanent international stations on the continent.

Record January lows were set at Vostok research station, at the southern pole, and at the Concordia station.

[Gray-Wolf]

So a record cold interior & record low sea ice/area around the coasts.....looks like the circumpolar winds are keeping that cold locked over the continent whilst outside that protective barrier the Summer warmth has cleared most all sea ice but the final rump of Weddell''s sea ice....

[ANYWEATHER]

4 hours ago, Gray-Wolf said:

So a record cold interior & record low sea ice/area around the coasts.....looks like the circumpolar winds are keeping that cold locked over the continent whilst outside that protective barrier the Summer warmth has cleared most all sea ice but the final rump of Weddell''s sea ice....

You just wont give up will you!

[RebsAbbo]

4 hours ago, ANYWEATHER said:

You just wont give up will you!

Why? Please explain…

[Methuselah]

2 minutes ago, RebsAbbo said:

Why? Please explain…

You asked for it. 

[Gray-Wolf]

I was gonna say I've never seen so little ice but then we are at a record low so I haven't!

I remember Weddell having a big polynia for a couple of years a few decades back but I've never seen that area so hammered as it is today

As for the 'splendid isolation' the circumpolar's place the inner continent in?

Well the Ozone hole used to mess with that allowing the katabatic winds to push out over the oceans so expanding the sea ice cover (oddly, back then, the climate change deniers looked at the perennial ice extent rather than the positive temp anoms inside Antartica?)

Edited February 12, 2023 by Gray-Wolf

[Dreckly]

NOAA sea ice extent and current iceberg positions.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/snow-and-ice-extent/sea-ice/S/0

 

 

Current Antarctic Iceberg Positions

WWW.SCP.BYU.EDU

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The NASA Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder (SCP) is a NASA sponsored project to develop scatterometer-based data time series to support climate studies of the Earth's cryosphere and...

 

Edited February 12, 2023 by Dreckly
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[Penguin16]

The sea-ice surrounding Antarctica is well below any previous recorded winter level, satellite data shows.

"It's so far outside anything we've seen, it's almost mind-blowing," says Walter Meier, who monitors sea-ice with the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

The ice that floats on the Antarctic Ocean's surface now measures less than 17 million sq km - that is 1.5 million sq km of sea-ice less than the September average, and well below previous winter record lows.

That's an area of missing ice about five times the size of the British Isles.

Edited September 17, 2023 by Penguin16

[Gray-Wolf]

Let's see how fast the Ice that did form goes away?

The Sea ice dampens out swells from the Southern Ocean storms so protects the Ice shelfs from impacts (remember what waggling that loose tooth used to do when You were a nipper?)

If The Southern Hemisphere follows our summer Ocean temp experience then we also have those impacts to contend with?

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[Midlands Ice Age]

Wow I had been watching the temps in Antarctica from afar after  I had noticed the very rapid loss  of sea ice from the area during the latter part of 2022, and first three quarters of 2023. I had observed the rapid recovery since then, and that was interesting to me.. 

But i hadn't realised exactly how cold it had become in the latest 3 months period..

It is certainly looking more likely as though the previous very warm 15 months were at least in part associated with the  Hunga Tonga eruption.

 

MIA

Edited March 7 by Midlands Ice Age