On Monday, 26 February 2018 10:12:11 UTC, Janet Winslow wrote:
I'm no meteorologist, but am interested in weather - particularly extremes. I have just read the link below, but have no idea of the article's validity, so I'd like any thoughts.

With all the talk of 'unprecedented polar conditions' leading to this begs the question: is this how other extreme winters were caused, e.g. 1947, 1963 which were presumably much worse than winter 2018 is ever going to be!

Thanks.

Jan


https://robertscribbler.com/2018/02/...e-in-february/

Hi Jan

Yes, it's certainly true that air temperatures yesterday at Cape Morris Jesup rose to +4.7°C at 09 UTC. That weather station is only 442 miles from the pole. There is no closer SYNOP stations to the pole, although there are probably a number of 'floating' AWS scatter across the frozen Arctic Ocean.

It's quite bizarre that for a while yesterday it might have been colder down here in Devon just for a few hours, than it is was in the high Arctic. It's probably another symptom of the recent SSW event in the high atmosphere, and of course the underlying warming that's been going on in recent years.

You can find a bit more detail about it he-

https://wp.me/p7wiux-335

Bruce.