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Its 65 F (18 C) in antarctica at the moment. The hottest temperature every recorded in antarctica. You can literally sit outside with a short sleeve shirt on at the south pole and not be cold right now...
@freemo
It's currently -25F at the south pole with a chill factor of -47F.
I don't know about you, but I would not only be FUCKIING COLD, but frost bitten within minutes.
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@realcaseyrollins
From the article at the Washington post :
In... the past 50 years, temperatures have [increased] 5 degrees*
* abbreviated to remove alarmist language and make factual rather than editorial
“So overall, this record looks to be a one time extreme event that doesn’t tell us anything about Antarctic climate change,”
@realcaseyrollins @SecondJon @sda @freemo he probably read the article from two years ago around this date and didnt check year
My post was just a day late, the temperature I mentioned was on feb 6th. Here is the wikipedia quote:
The highest temperature ever recorded on the Antarctic continent was 18.3 °C (64.9 °F) at Esperanza Base, on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, on 6 February 2020
@realcaseyrollins @SecondJon @freemo
@realcaseyrollins
It was 65 on the peninsula.
It was -25 at the pole.
When someone says "literally" that's a signal to take the statement literally.
" You can literally sit outside with a short sleeve shirt on AT THE SOUTH POLE and not be cold right now..." (emphasis added)
YEs if that is true then I made an error.. Can you show your source that states on feb 6th it was -25 at the pole in the middle of the day?
@freemo @realcaseyrollins @SecondJon
Not sure. It might have been
https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/antarctica/south-pole
Thanks, seems valid, I should have been more careful and pointed out the location of the temperature and not implied it was the case at exactly the pole.
@freemo @realcaseyrollins @SecondJon
For future reference, the distance from Esperanza Base to the South Pole is 1,845 mi.
Yea continents are big places.
Though the root of the issue remains. The temperature in antarctica was higher than it has ever been in recorded history on that day and it was freakishly warm for the area in ways that shouldnt be possible.
@freemo @realcaseyrollins @SecondJon
Record highs have been set all over the world ever since the ice age... in ways that seem freakishly improbable. Until we're well on the way down the road to the next ice age, record high temperatures will continue to made.
@SecondJon @sda @freemo Well my question wasn't about global warming so much as two wildly varying accounts of the current temperature.