Two water-side locations, stark difference in temperatures

[steve2470]

Last edited Thu Dec 21, 2017, 04:51 AM - Edit history (2)

1- Arctic western coast of Greenland: Ilulissat, Greenland (69.23 °N) reports in at 16F, which is reported as pretty normal for them. Mind you, this is in the Arctic.

2- Sub-arctic southern coast of Siberia, Russia: Magadan on the Sea of Okhotsk (59.58 °N) reports in at -23°F, much colder than normal according to Wiki. (eta2: Average low for Magadan in December is 1F) Of course, Magadan is down-wind of the extremely cold landmass of Siberia.

Only an arctic/sub-arctic weather geek would find this interesting

eta: My mistake, it's the "feel like" temperature in Magadan that threw me off. It's "only" -23F. Sorry! Still a very stark difference between two waterside locales, and the sub-arctic one being the colder one.

[FirstLight]

1. wow...

I'm a weather nerd too..

so does this anomaly have something to do with the ocean-circulation shifting?

[steve2470]

2. I don't know

I just chalked it up to either a very strong cold front sweeping over Magadan, or a very strong Siberian high moving that far south. Just my guesses.

Someone else will probably know more if we wait long enough.

[Dale Neiburg]

3. In part it's just the difference between the East and West coasts of a landmass.

Compare the weather in western Europe to that of Hudson's Bay.