Antarctica - In 65 Yrs Of Records, Vostok Never Got Above -30C Oct-Mar; Yesterday It Was -17C

[hatrack]

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What is considered “warm” over the frozen, barren confines of eastern Antarctica is, of course, relative. Instead of temperatures being minus-50 (minus-45 Celsius) or minus-60 (minus-51 Celsius), they’ve been closer to 0 (minus-18 Celsius) or 10 (minus-12 Celsius) degrees — but that’s a massive heat wave by Antarctic standards.

The average high temperature in Vostok — at the center of the eastern ice sheet — is around minus-63 (minus-53 Celsius) in March. But on Friday, the temperature leaped to 0 degrees (minus-17.7 Celsius), the warmest it’s been there during March since record keeping began 65 years ago. It broke the previous monthly record by a staggering 27 degrees (15 Celsius).

“In about 65 record years in Vostok, between March and October, values ​​above -30°C were never observed,” wrote Di Battista in an email.

Vostok, a Russian meteorological observatory, is about 808 miles southeast of the South Pole and sits 11,444 feet above sea level. It’s famous for holding the lowest temperature ever observed on Earth: minus-128.6 degrees (minus-89.2 Celsius), set on July 21, 1983.

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https://climatecrocks.com/2022/03/18/antarctica-90-degrees-above-normal-nothing-to-see-here/

[Historic NY]

1. They will be breaking out beach chairs soon..

apparently it's not alarming yet to most.

[Blues Heron]

2. Southeast of the south pole? wait wut?

I think they meant northeast.

[exboyfil]

3. So what do the scietists who staff Vostok think of this