Antarctica Plunges To -83.2C (-117.8F) — Earth’s Lowest Temperature Since 2017; Record-Challenging Cold Sweeps Europe; + South America And South Africa Cool
Antarctica Plunges To -83.2C (-117.8F) — Earth’s Lowest Temperature Since 2017
While the media tricks the dumb and the gullible into believing the world is on fire –with poverty-inducing CO2 reductions their only savoir– Antarctica is shivering through an extreme bout of cold, even by South Pole standards.
The Italian-French research station ‘Concordia’ posted a reading of -83.2C (-117.8F) on July 25. This ranks as the fifth coldest daily value in the operational life of the station, bested only by Aug 2010’s -84.7C; July 2010’s -84.6C; and June 2017’s -83.9C and -83.5C.
Weatherzone meteorologist Ben Domensino points to this being the planet’s first sub -83C reading since 2017 (June 20):
Station ‘Dome C II’ also impressed, dipping to -81.6C (-114.9F) shortly before 03:00 UTC on July 25:
As discussed recently, Antarctic sea ice’s tough time of it in 2023 isn’t related to temperature, that correlation simply doesn’t exist. The Antarctic continent continues to cool, the data are very clear on that, yet ice is taking a proverbial beating this season.
Instead, it is wind patterns, ocean currents and an uptick in submarine volcano activity that appear to be the determining factors re. Antarctic sea ice cover — frustrating realities that the AGW Party, via their MSM lapdogs, refuse to contend with, not wanting to muddy their world-reshaping agenda with inconvenient facts, of course.
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Record-Challenging Cold Sweeps Europe
Another region of the planet apparently “on fire!” right now is Europe.
This, however, couldn’t be farther from the truth. Despite a pocket of ‘reds’ to the south, the majority of Europe is enduring a ‘blue’ July, with the cold now expected to threaten many-a summer temperature record as it intensifies through Wednesday.
It’s been cold — ask a European, ask me…
We’ve enjoyed a ‘comfortably cool’ July here in Central Portugal (thus far), it’s been great. Same with my old haunt, the UK. July 2023 there is on course to be colder-than-average–and vs the historically cool 1961-1990 era that the Met Office still insist on using, no less.
Looking ahead, and particularly at central/eastern nations, those summer chills are about to take another step down.
As per the latest GFS run (shown below), ‘pinks’ and ‘purples’ are forecast to engulf the likes of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Albania, Belarus, Ukraine and Romania this week, sending temperatures crashing by as much as 18C below the seasonal norm.
Record summer lows are expected, an unbiased media would report on them (not holding my breath).
The picture doesn’t improve much as the calendar flips to August:
The majority of Europe is enjoying/enduring a cool summer of 2023, don’t let anyone propagandize you otherwise.
South America And South Africa Cool
And finally, some of that aforementioned Antarctic cold has been spun northward over Southern Hemisphere land masses.
Fierce frosts have gripped areas of Argentina and Chile of late, as South America’s topsy–turvy ‘meridional jet stream‘-fueled winter drags on. Looking ahead, more of the same is on the cards, too, as we head into August:
Likewise in South Africa, after last week’s heavy snows the chilling lows have persisted, even in coastal regions. The town of Port Nolloth, for example, posted a minimum of 1.8C (35.2F) yesterday, which is just 0.1C from the domestic port’s all-time record low.
The Met Office in the UK used to use the 1980-2010 average, then about 2 years ago they reverted back to the older average. This means they can continue saying the temperature is above average for a little bit longer.
Not only that, but several years ago the U.K.met office ‘Changed’ the definition of Heat Wave and because of that we now suffer more heatwaves, backing up their (false) claims of warming.
Not only that, but urban weather station temperatures are taken as record despite the World Meteorological Office having strict definitions on how & where weather records should be recorded.
The BoM cheat using electronic thermometers, we cheat by using third teir weather stations, noaa cheats by using best guess estimates for their models!
Everyone cheats & lies but we pay for it through increased payments to ‘Green Energy’- more liars!
A collapse of the so-called AMOC ocean current will drastically change the globe’s climate. In Denmark, this will mean that the average temperature will be ten degrees lower, they estimate.
The researchers’ calculations – published in the journal Nature Communications – indicate that there is a 95 percent probability of a collapse occurring between 2025 and 2095. Most likely in 2057.
This is long before what the climate reports from the UN climate organization IPCC have estimated via climate models.
The study has made big headlines. And this has immediately created a debate among the world’s leading climate scientists.
Several top researchers are skeptical of the Danish study.
If that collapses…a NEW Ice Age will occur.
ok, so i am from denmark. But if the AMOC collapses then there will just be a cold blob in the north atlantic which will affect only the coast of south east canada, southern coast of greenland, iceland and they west coast of norway, ireland, and scotland.
Oh well, in Switzerland (Zurich region), we woke up with temperatures of 12 Celsius. Forecasts for today are below 20 Celsius. This time of the year (mid July till mid August) is called “high summer” with temperatures reaching 30+ Celsius regularly… and often do not fall below 20… nope, not this year, it is rather cool and wet.. and stormy as well… eat this, you warm Sayers…
AMOC is not going to collapse – this tweet from Eleanor Frajka is interesting – I was not aware AMOC regularly temporarily reverses which is linked to colder, snowier winters in the northern hemisphere
https://twitter.com/EleanorFrajka/status/1683918603312304129
We’re in the Texas Heat Dome. I’m actually looking forward to winter this year!
Re AMOC, the thing to watch is the Beaufort Gyre (“BG”). If that weakens there is increased outflow of comparatively less saline and very cold water (across at least the upper levels in the water column) from the Arctic Sea into the N Atlantic.
The effect of this outflow is to slow and divert the warmer surface flows of the AMOC (loosely the “Gulf Stream”). This weakening of the BG May or may not be quasi-cyclical – but I do wonder….when it happens the N Hemisphere around the Atlantic at minimum, gets cooler.
Norse Greenland had a climate at least as warm as modern Iceland between ca 1000 AD and 1250/1300 AD, then froze and in Europe, Asia and N America the “Mediaeval Climate Optimum (at least as warm as today and locally warmer eg N England as is clear from aerial photos and monastery tax records) ended.
Go back 1000 years to the Roman Optimum…definitely warmer than today and wetter across the Med Basin/N Africa (begs questions about where the jetstream lay, and associated H and L pressure systems passed) and that crashed very suddenly too in the 3rd and 4th centuries AD; wind back a 1000 years or so from 1st century AD and you are in the middle of the Bronze Age collapse across the Med….with very good evidence archaeologically that that too was at least significantly attributable to climate change….
Just maybe something in this study (and it’s nothing to do with CAGW), seeing as we are now roughly 1000 years on from the Mediaeval Climate Optimum….
I’m not convinced that the AMOC collapses on a regular basis. The last complete collapse was probably during the Younger Dryas roughly 12,000 years ago. This was likely caused by the ice dam holding back a massive glacial melt water lake in North America collapsing and suddenly releasing huge amounts of fresh water into the North Atlantic. This plunged the Northern Hemisphere back into an ice age for about 1,000 years. Nothing similar can happen in the near future as there isn’t a massive lake ready to drain into the ocean.
There is the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, AMO, which has a roughly 80 year cycle of warm and cool phases and is probably linked to the strength of the AMOC. The AMO was been in it’s warm phase since about 1980-1985. Prior to this it was in it’s cool phase and Europe experienced frequent cold snowy winters in the 1960’s and 1970’s. The AMO is due to return to it’s cool phase pretty soon, increasing the likelihood of snowy winters for Europe and possibly NE America. How the AMO relates to or is affected by the Beaufort Gyre is something I’m not sure about
Agree. I don’t contend for a collapse of AMOC. Just a slowing and/or deviation to a less Northerly flow of warmer tropical waters.
Agree the Younger Dryas may have been a near total collapse for the reasons you give. But there is nothing like the possibility of that happening today.
The BG keeps the freshwater outflow of the great Siberian rivers in the Arctic Sea. There is limited outflow so long as the BG remains strong.
There are papers (sorry can’t link, but they are searchable online) suggesting when BG weakens, less dense “fresher” Arctic water flows out into Atlantic surface waters down the Davis Strait and thru Barents Sea.
If there is anything in this, one can see how it might “push” the Gulf Stream further South. Suspect that in turn would push the Atlantic H and L pressure systems South. If so, that might explain how the Atlantic temperate storm systems move South ie over Spain and N Africa.
There are Roman bridges over dry watercourses all over S Europe and N Africa. Clearly there were rivers which could not be forded easily in those places 2000 years ago….
PS. It is worth considering what the climate of N Africa was like around the period 700BC, perhaps in the cool period following the Bronze Age Collapse around the Med.
Look up Leptis Magna on wiki. While it lasted into Byzantine times, it clearly was at its agriculturally richest much earlier than 6/7 C AD when it was abandoned.
It’s desert now. Does a more Southerly temperate storm track explain this? If so, what might have caused that more Southerly track?
History Scandinavia, google that.
12500 years BC, first inhabitants of Scandinavia.
7000 years BC reindeer moved north, hunters followed.
New hunters from Europe migrate north to Scandinavia, according to DNA studies.
Agriculture in the South. Maglemose culture.
6000 years BC, leaf forests emerged.
3000 BC, further warming of Scandinavia, It is unknown what language these early Scandinavians spoke, but towards the end of the 3rd millennium BC. they were overrun by new tribes that many scholars believe spoke Proto-Indo-European, the hatchet culture.
At the end of the Bronze Age there was cooling and it became wetter.
What was the climate like in North Africa at that time?
Seems this volcanic ash sent to 40,000 feet on 14 July 2023 has done it again.
https://news.yahoo.com/helicopter-video-shows-alaskas-shishaldin-155920454.html
It has shot ash again to about half that yesterday.
https://www.aol.com/news/renewed-alaska-volcano-explosion-shoots-141125572.html
Undoubtedly the eruption into the stratosphere will contribute to the cooling atmosphere for a 1-3 years.
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