Story submitted by Eric Worrall
Antarctica continues to defy the global warming script, with a report from Meteo France, that June this year was the coldest Antarctic June ever recorded, at the French Antarctic Dumont d’Urville Station.
According to the press release, during June this year, the average temperature was -22.4c (-8.3F), 6.6c (11.9F) lower than normal. This is the coldest June ever recorded at the station, and almost the coldest monthly average ever – only September 1953 was colder, with a recorded average temperature of -23.5c (-10.3F).
June this year also broke the June daily minimum temperature record, with a new record low of -34.9c (-30.8F).
Other unusual features of the June temperature record are an unusual excess of sunlight hours (11.8 hours rather than the normal 7.4 hours), and unusually light wind conditions.
Dumont d’Urville Station has experienced ongoing activity since 1956. According to the Meteo France record, there is no other weather station for 1000km in any direction.
http://www.meteofrance.fr/web/comprendre-la-meteo/actualites?articleId=8990197
h/t IceAgeNow
Translated version of the Meteo France page:-
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Coldest Antarctic June Ever Recorded
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How long has June been recording?
There shouldn’t be any sunlight in June in the Antarctic????
There are a couple of weeks, around the 21st of June when the sun does not shine at all. So how could they get an average of 11.8 hours a day of sunlight in June? Unless they mean a TOTAL of 11.8 hours for the entire month. I may have made a wrong assumption, since the wording isn’t explicit. In any case, why would the hours of sunlight vary that much from one June to another? Are sunlight hours on cloudy days not counted?
“There shouldn’t be any sunlight in June in the Antarctic”
The Antarctic is a large continent and depending where the station is located, will determine if there is sunlight in June
For example, http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/environment/weather/sunlight-hours shows the sunlight at a number of Australian stations.
Dumont d’Urville Station is is 66.39.49S – quite a bit away from the actual south pole.
Steve B says:
July 12, 2014 at 12:05 am
There shouldn’t be any sunlight in June in the Antarctic????
Indeed. But I just checked their station blog and I understand/guess the 11.8 hours of sunlight is for the whole of June. And its sunlight and not sunshine.
http://www.gdargaud.net/Antarctica/WinterDdU.html
Winter over at Dumont d’Urville
“Midwinter party. To break the monotony of the winter, there is a traditional party on the shortest day of the year, June 21st, which in our case lasted for 8 days”
Some other quotes from this blog:
“Temperature in DdU is not bad: around 0 in summer, down to -37°C (-35°F) in winter. But the wind is a killer. I had 250 km/h (150 mph) and there has been recorded wind up to 315 km/h (200 mph) ! I’ve seen rocks and buildings fly, and I wasn’t even that drunk.”
And this description of a photo of the base..
“The small white buildings in the center are freezers (warmer than the outside air !),”
June this year also broke the June daily minimum temperature record, with a new record low of -34.9c (-30.8F).
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Does the June daily minimum temperature consist of an average of all June minimum temperatures or is it the coldest temperature recorded during June? I’ve been in Minnesota when the temperature was around -30F, so it doesn’t sound all that low for an Antarctic winter temperature.
Could this be the start of the little ice age predicted by Abdussamatov?
That station is located at 66.33S and receives 3 hours of daylight on June 1st. Drops to 1.2 hours around the 21st and by the end of the month it is up to 1.8 hours. Daylight probably isn’t considered the same as sunlight tho’.
Here is the online program I used.
http://astro.unl.edu/classaction/animations/coordsmotion/daylighthoursexplorer.html
“ConfusedPhoton says:
July 12, 2014 at 12:21 am
“There shouldn’t be any sunlight in June in the Antarctic””
The article does not discuss sunlight it discusses insolation, ie the amount of solar radiation received by an exposed surface.
I haven’t read the google translation, but I’m guessing it’s bad. Google translations are only rough guides for what has been said. Although they are probably more accurate than NOA GISS etc 🙂 /sarc off
Solar Radiation
The Sun’s illumination is the ultimate energy source for the Earth’s biosphere, and the ultimate driving force for atmospheric, and oceanic circulations. The Sun is a variable star as one can see from sunspots recorded back to Galileo’s time in the early 1600s. Satellite observations over the past three decades show that the sunspot activity is associated with changes in solar output energy. The total solar irradiance (TSI), improperly called “solar constant” until a few years ago, has been found to change about 0.1% in an 11-year solar sunspot activity. The current most accurate TSI values from the Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM) on NASA’s Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment ( SORCE ) is 1360.8 ± 0.5 W/m2 during the 2008 solar minimum as compared to previous estimates of 1365.4 ± 1.3 W/m2 established in the 1990s.
Sun-climate research is an interdisciplinary field focusing on understanding solar variability and climate response on different time scales, and is critical for understanding and isolating human-induced climate change. Accurate and continuous observation of the TSI is required to monitor and understand the causes of the Earth’s radiation (im)balance, over time. Still, knowledge of TSI alone is not sufficient for understanding the physical processes in the Earth’s ocean and atmosphere system. Recent studies have shown that even for identical TSI variations, atmospheric and ocean temperatures responsd differently depending on the details of Spectral Solar Irradiance (SSI) variations. SSI observations from the Spectral Irradiance Monitor (SIM) instrument on SORCE revealed variations of SSI in the descending phase of solar cycle 23 that were not anticipated by some semi-empirical models. These groundbreaking continuous SIM observations of near full solar spectrum SSI are unprecedented in the history of Sun observations and have helped scientists to understand the important role on climate of SSI variations. Improved TIM and SIM instruments on an upcoming Total Solar and Spectral Irradiance Sensor (TSIS) mission, expected to launch in 2016, will provide even more accurate Sun observations for detecting yet unresolved solar variations, and for further strengthening our understanding the role solar variations have in a changing planet.
Sun-climate research activities in Climate and Radiation Laboratory focus on analyzing observed solar irradiance for understanding solar variability, and investigating observed and simulated climate responses to solar variations recorded in satellite observations in order to pin down the physical mechanisms in the Sun-climate connection. Recently a joint Sun-Climate Research Center (SCRC) between NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmosphere and Space Physics (LASP) has been formed to foster collaborative studies of Sun effects on Earth’s climate. The center provides opportunities for scientist collaboration, and is a means for post-doctoral scientists and graduate students in science, engineering, and mission operations to move between LASP and Goddard.
Contact: Guoyong Wen
D’oh!
Forget that last comment of mine. The station is at 66.66S. That makes the the hours of daylight June 1st 2.6 hours. dropping to none JUne 15th through June 27th. achieving a whole 0.9 hours by June 30th.
The XUV Photometer System (XPS) is one of four solar irradiance measurement experiments that was launched in January 2003 as part of the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE). Studies of the solar XUV radiation began in the 1960s with space-based rocket experiments, but the knowledge of the solar XUV irradiance, both in absolute magnitude and variability, has been questionable due largely to the very limited number of observations. With the launch of Solar & Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) in 1995, Student Nitric Oxide Explorer (SNOE) in 1998, and Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Mesosphere-Energetics-Dynamics (TIMED) spacecraft in 2001, there is now a continuous data set of the solar XUV irradiance, and advances in the understanding of the solar XUV irradiance have begun. The SORCE XPS, which evolved from earlier versions flown on SNOE and TIMED, continue on these solar XUV irradiance measurements with improvements to accuracy, spectral image, and temporal change.
ren said:
“Recent studies have shown that even for identical TSI variations, atmospheric and ocean temperatures responsd differently depending on the details of Spectral Solar Irradiance (SSI) variations. SSI observations from the Spectral Irradiance Monitor (SIM) instrument on SORCE revealed variations of SSI in the descending phase of solar cycle 23 that were not anticipated by some semi-empirical models”
Yes, the spectral variations affect global albedo via cloudiness changes which alters the proportion of TSI entering the oceans.
Some of us have proposed models that acknowledge that fact and incorporate the consequences.
This should read “coldest ever June for Dumont d’Urville” not Antarctica. As for “hours of sunlight” I’d suggest it’d be the same as “hours of sunshine”. They’d be measuring it with a special Antarctic model of the Campbell-Stokes sunshine recorder or the French equivalent.
Ozone March 1, 2010.
http://modis-atmos.gsfc.nasa.gov/MOD08_M3/_BROWSE_FIXEDSCALE/2010_03/C005/LL/Total_Ozone_Mean_Mean.png
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Currently, the sea ice around Antarctica abruptly stopped. This means the weakening of the polar vortex in the lower stratosphere.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/antarctic.sea.ice.interactive.html
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat_a_f/gif_files/gfs_t100_sh_f00.gif
Brisbane, Australia has had many cold nights last month and a half. Call it weather or call it climate — the earth could be entering a mini ice age. Interesting to read that the cold in Antarctica is associated with a cloud-free sky. The cold nights in Queensland also tend to be cloud-free.
Just heard on the ABC (Australia) News that Brisbane and many areas of Queensland had their coldest overnight temperature ever recorded. Many inland areas of Queensland had morning temps down to -5 celsius
The weakening of the polar vortex is visible in the form of rising temperatures in the stratosphere above the polar circle (the temperature of the stratosphere is still below normal).
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat-trop/gif_files/time_pres_TEMP_ANOM_JAS_SH_2014.gif
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/blocking/real_time_sh/1panel_ghgs_obs_sh_nrm.gif
Gerard says:
July 12, 2014 at 1:38 am
Just heard on the ABC (Australia) News that Brisbane and many areas of Queensland had their coldest overnight temperature ever recorded. Many inland areas of Queensland had morning temps down to -5 celsius.
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Measured and observed data. Hindcasting not forecasting. No computer modelling anywhere. The ABC warmists must be really sweating about this. What will Robyn Williams from the Science Show have to say?
Gerard says:
July 12, 2014 at 1:38 am
Just heard on the ABC (Australia) News that Brisbane and many areas of Queensland had their coldest overnight temperature ever recorded. Many inland areas of Queensland had morning temps down to -5 celsius (sic)
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Yep it is pretty darn cold. Also I guess the sun peaks its head above the horizon for a few hours total in June. I guess the days have been clear.
It can’t be the coldest. A certain Mr Mann cut a tree down at the South Pole last week and a quick glance at the rings show it was the warmist ever. That is called climate scientific proof.
Stary Ranga
Look at blocking polar vortex at a height of less than 30 km. Click Earth.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/10hPa/orthographic=142.65,-37.42,553
Old Ranga, now let’s see the jet stream.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/250hPa/orthographic=142.65,-37.42,553