Coldest Place on Earth has it’s coldest winter……….. .ever

Unprecedented bouts of extreme heat and increased ice melting events have become the common topics of global warming worries. But in the South Pole, the opposite effects have been just as jarring in recent months.

Unlike its flashier cousin, the North Pole, which has been made famous for its mythical holiday residents, the South Pole hasn't been as directly exposed to the effects of a heating climate. While rising temperatures and melting ice shelves have caused some worry for climatologists, the South Pole has been largely spared from the effects seen at the North Pole, which has endured widespread glacial melting and was even shrouded in wildfire smoke this summer.

But in the vast tundra of Antarctic ice at the South Pole, temperatures plummeted to levels never seen before this past winter.

At the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, located on the highest plateau of Antarctica, average temperatures from April to September, the continent's winter months, fell all the way down to 78 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (61 degrees below zero Celsius).

And that wasn't the lowest temperature of that range. That was the average.

According to data kept by the British Antarctic Survey, the 2021 winter's harsh temperatures were the lowest in more than 60 years. The research team, which is part of the Natural Environment Research Council, has been tracking temperature data in the South Pole since 1957 and had never recorded a winter this cold.

The lowest minimum temperature recording from Russia’s Vostok Station was an impressive 110.9 below zero F (79.4 below zero C) on Sept. 30. At that time, the AccuWeather RealFeel® Temperature was 122 below zero F.

According to the Washington Post, the harrowing season can be blamed on a persistent polar vortex that surrounded Antarctica for the entire winter.

That intense polar vortex can be partially tied to the weak La Niña conditions that returned later in the Southern Hemisphere's winter, AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Jason Nicholls explained. 

That vortex was most intense in July and August, Nicholls said. Even after weakening some in September, it still remained overall fairly strong.

"Basically, the winds in the polar stratosphere have been stronger than normal, which is associated with shifting the jet stream toward the pole,” NOAA atmospheric scientist Amy Butler told The Post. “This keeps the cold air locked up over much of Antarctica.”

The comparison between the rest of the world’s spiking temperatures and Antarctica’s new depths of bitter cold is shocking, as climatologist Zack Labe depicted on Twitter.

Experts are urging people to read into Antarctica's winter temperatures with caution, however. One single season of extreme temperatures, whether hot or cold, shouldn't be used to analyze entire climate trends.

“One cold winter is interesting but doesn’t change the long-term trend, which is warming,” University of Washington Atmospheric Sciences Professor Eric Steig told The Post.

According to the Washington Post, that bastion of science, this can be blamed on the Polar Vortex. The same argument we heard when the Midwest had one of it’s coldest winters a few years ago.

The theory is a large low pressure area of cold air at the Poles shifts and expands bringing extremely low temperatures away from the poles. 

But given we are talking about the South Pole where the air is coldest, how does pushing that cold air away further lower the temperatures at the Poles?

They really are relying heavily on the poor old Vortex. And of course one has to assume that none of the prior record lows were ever caused by a Polar Vortex for this to be a reasonable excuse. Unfortunately the Vortex has always been with us, so probably caused almost all record lows.

Just another’ inconvenient truth’….meanwhile the markets are beginning to grasp if you attack Big Oil and ban projects like the Keystone pipeline, costs will go up….and gas stations may not have gas.

Mozart

I am afraid there may be some reason why South Africa as a whole had one of the coldest winters lasting through to  nearly the end of September in living memory?   We all know that .for millions of years have gone through heating and cooling cycles  and the last Ice age ended about  12 000 years ago.    

So is the planet starting a new cooling down cycle with temperatures reaching lower levels gradually   over the next 10 000 years of age and with mankind being reducing drastically in population figures   to a level  where the resultant population being reduced massively and  civilization as we know it being wiped out.   

The last mini-Ice Age was in round about 1300 AC  - in other words a mere  800 years ago - when  Greenland and part of the northern hemisphere experienced massive drops in temperatures  and the  glaziers and ice covering was huge and  for instance forced the departure of Danish and Viking  settlements  in that region  being  destroyed. by ice covering.  We also know that the area between what is today Alaska and Asia was covered by ice  and initially settled by people crossing the see for thousands of years ago, before that period.   

In a period of slow global heating  ice would melt - but it dies not mean that the heating occurred was man-made as the politicians and politized scientists want us to believe now..                      

Now Moz and Mike please stop trolling poor Stavass. He will be jumping up and downin a froth if you don't accept the statement made by those lying scumbags sorry I mean that paper of record the Washington Post.

Wow that's cold, my wife has experienced minus 50 degrees and that's unbearable...however Oymyakon is the coldest town... and the coldest recorded in July 1983 was at Russian Vostok station in Antartica at minus 128.6 degrees Fahrenheit.