Coldest Antarctic June Ever Recorded

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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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July 12, 2014 8:10 am

Thanks for that. According to this page, in the Northern Hemisphere over the last 7 years there has been a general downward trend in temperatures for each specified Winter month, while an upwards trend for the Summer months:
October 13, 2013
HADCRUT4 Northern Hemisphere Winter Doom .
http://sunshinehours.wordpress.com/2013/10/13/hadcrut4-northern-hemisphere-winter-doom/
This may correspond to the apparent colder Winters at least the U.S. has seen over the last few years. This trend is particular striking for December where the trend was -0.9° C per decade, or -9° C per century(!)
I wanted to know if this is also true for the Southern Hemisphere, or for the planet as a whole? Note for the planet as a whole, I mean Winter months for the Northern Hemisphere, such as December. Are temperatures showing a downward trend globally for those months?
Judging from this report on Antarctica, IF there is a trend for the Southern Hemisphere, it is also for the Winter months in that hemisphere and is also downwards.
I was reminded of this by something Neil DeGrasse-Tyson said during the episode of Cosmos titled “The World Set Free”. One of the evidences he gave for greenhouse warming at about the 34 minute mark as broadcast was that the Earth was warming faster in Winter than in Summer. He says this is to be expected for greenhouse warming, whereas for solar warming it would be the reverse.
But in the last few years at least in the Northern Hemisphere the warming IS higher in the Summer. So I wanted to know if this a global phenomenon.

Bill H
July 12, 2014 8:20 am

ren says:
July 12, 2014 at 1:35 am
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
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This means the Southern Hemisphere is nearing equilibrium. The temperature variation is insufficient to drive winds and enlarge the polar vortex. This is a bad thing. This means the cold air will now mass over the arctic and the ice increase will again resume under it. As the cold air mass increases in size (the down-welling cold has not slowed and has infact increased in speed) it will bleed outward from the polar region. As this mass increases your going to see record cold all over the Southern Hemisphere. As the ENSO is now going cold and the heat dissipated, there is little to buffer what is coming. I expect to see many all time low records broken the next 6-9 weeks down south.

Bill H
July 12, 2014 8:21 am

I meant ANTARCTIC… OY!
But interesting changes are beginning up north too..

Keitho
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July 12, 2014 8:29 am

It might be cold in Australia but we have just been in the Kalagadi Park On the border of SA/Botswana and Namibia where the night time temperature fell to -10C. The water pipes all burst and there were dead birds on the ground in the morning. The water hole was frozen over and the Sand Grouse were skating across it trying to peck through for water.
The altitude is 3000ft and we were at 25Deg South. Maybe all that sea ice in the Antarctic is to blame but it was very cold under my blankets inside the tent.

ren
July 12, 2014 10:01 am

I wonder why nobody pays attention to the temperature drop of ocean currents in the North.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=108.54,155.49,482

Werner Brozek
July 12, 2014 10:30 am

On the other hand, Hadsst3 set an all time record in June with an anomaly of 0.562, beating the old mark of 0.526 set in July of 1998. See:
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadsst3gl/from:1997

July 12, 2014 11:00 am

Cant stop that cold from coming down the polar vortex from space….. The polar vortex is the earths cold regulator governed by the solar environment…

July 12, 2014 11:10 am

Mark and two Cats says:
July 12, 2014 at 12:02 am
Coldest Antarctic June Ever Recorded
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How long has June been recording?
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Name that tune for 64,000 dollars.

herkimer
July 12, 2014 11:11 am

Robert Clark
You came up with similar temperatures for US. Here are the NCDC/NOAA figures
THE TREND OF US TEMPERATURES
The following are monthly temperature anomaly trends for Contiguous US or 48 states as calculated by the NCDC/NOAA Climate at a Glance web page for the last 16 years [1998-2014]. The figure reflect the linear trend in Fahrenheit degrees per decade per NCDC/NOAA web page data using base period of 1998-2013
WINTER (-1.79 F/DECADE) – DECLINING
DEC -1.22 F/decade (declining)
JAN -1.52 F (declining)
FEB -2.77 F (declining)
SPRING (-0.06 F/DECADE)- DECLINING
MAR +0.57 F (rising) but.dropped 10 degrees F since 2012 alone
APR -0.28 F (declining)
MAY -0.47 F (declining)
SUMMER (+0.48 F/ DECADE)-RISING
JUN +1.19 F (rising)
JUL +0.25 F (rising)
AUG -0.01 F (declining)
FALL( -0.44 F/DECADE)-DECLINING
SEPT +0.06 F (flat)
OCT -0.61 F (declining)
NOV -0.76 F (declining)
ANNUAL(-0.36 F/DECADE)-DECLINING
Annual Contiguous US temperatures have been declining at (-0.36 F/DECADE) since 1998. This is happening in 7 of the 9 climate regions in United States. Only the Northeast and the West both of which receive the moderating effect of the oceans, had slight warming trend of 0.2 and 0.3 F/decade respectively. Theses 16 year annual temperature declines illustrate that despite any summer warming , the cooling during winter , spring and fall offsets any summer warming resulting in the annual temperature declines . It shows that the problem is not global warming at all but global cooling The rate of winter cooling is 3.7 times greater than the rate of summer warming, clearly showing that the year will cool more than it will warm
Summary
8 months are declining, 1 month is flat, and 3 months are rising
ANNUAL ,WINTER ,SPRING and FALL have DECLINING TEMPERATURES
SUMMER has RISING TEMPERATURES [only MARCH, JUNE and JULY have still rising temperatures]
These temperature anomaly trend declines are similar to past temperature declines in United States during 1895-1920 and again 1953 -1979. A similar cool period seems to have started during the current decade .

observa
July 12, 2014 11:33 am
Anything is possible
July 12, 2014 11:37 am

This is clearly a statistical outlier. Expect Gavin’s algorithm to deal with it accordingly….

yzdeaner
July 12, 2014 11:38 am

Of course antarctic temps are dropping. Doesn’t everyone know….global warming is cool!

herkimer
July 12, 2014 11:47 am

Not only have winters been getting cooler since 1998 in Contiguous US [48 states] and Canada, but winters have been getting colder for the Northern Hemisphere as a whole and for the Globe as a whole. The trend of global land winter temperature anomalies since 1998 has been declining at o.20C/decade and the trend of Northern Hemisphere land winter temperatures has been declining at -0.34C/decade. These are as per CLIMATE AT A GLANCE NCDC/NOAA web page . Declines in winter temperatures trend is also present in England and Europe records. . Winter temperatures declines if significant, can lead to colder spring, summer and fall as we are already seeing in North America this year . This pattern can lead to 17 years to date of no further global warming . I see this pattern continuing for decades into the future as the oceans cool and the ocean conveyor belt is modified.

July 12, 2014 12:14 pm

Those French Resort town must be wondering, why did Al Gore have to visit us this summer?

July 12, 2014 12:15 pm

For those with eyes to see, there appears to be a pattern unfolding down under. Brisbane just recorded its coldest temperature since 1911. All the while the sea ice surrounding Antarctica continues to expand and thicken, for those of you heavily invested in the warmist party line. So it may be quite a while longer before the categorical prediction of the “unstoppable” collapse of the WAIS comes to pass.
HL Mencken

phlogiston
July 12, 2014 12:19 pm

Somewhere there is a CAGW war room where they will read this article and prepare a response. Not to address the story directly but just to put out an opposite story. So within a week or less, expect to see a press release with some (probably) “new” computer modeling showing that Antarctica is warming full speed ahead. From an activist University such as Oregon State.

Cam
July 12, 2014 12:20 pm

This was the lowest temperature at this one station. What about all of the other stations on the continent?

greg davies
July 12, 2014 12:29 pm

LMAO at liberals

MCW
July 12, 2014 12:53 pm

Watch the distraction two-step as the disciples of the church of global warming try and buy time to explain this as more proof of global warming.

Tonto Fig
July 12, 2014 1:14 pm

Damned global warming.

July 12, 2014 2:22 pm

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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That is a sure sign of catastrophic global warming. When you look up and see the growing ice sheets, then you will know for sure.

bluesky
July 12, 2014 2:22 pm

It’s that global warming Owl Gore was telling us about. The polar vortex is sucking all the heat out of the Antarctic vortex.

george e. smith
July 12, 2014 2:24 pm

“””””….. Steve B says:
July 12, 2014 at 12:05 am
There shouldn’t be any sunlight in June in the Antarctic????……”””””‘
Well not all of Antarctica is within the Antarctic circle, so there are parts of Antarctica that always have some daylight hours.

Jimbo
July 12, 2014 2:28 pm

The evidence for climate change is everywhere. They say we just have to look out the window. So, here it is and it’s much worse than we thought.

The Local Europe AB – 10 July 2014
Alps get summer snow as wet weather to stay
…… Parts of the Alps looked like a winter wonderland on Thursday as summer snow continued to fall, disrupting the usual holiday activities.
The regional newspaper Dauphiné Libere reported that tourists in the town of La Rosière were asking shopkeepers for toboggans so they could go sledging on the slopes……
http://www.thelocal.fr/20140710/in-pictures-french-alps-get-summer-snow

Skiing in the Alps is doomed by global warming I heard.

Daily Mirror 9 July 2014
Crazy summer weather sees snow in JULY on the streets of south coast holiday town
People in Poole had to swap their sun tan lotion for snow shovels today, after a freak hail storm in July.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/crazy-summer-weather-sees-snow-3831180

Hailstorms are just a thing of the past?
Here is some more cold and snow news to delight the hearts of most Warmists.

July 12, 2014 2:31 pm

Eric Worrall says:
July 12, 2014 at 2:31 am
I’m living through it 🙂 – not much fun enduring freezing conditions in a house which is designed for tropical conditions!
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Yes, but on the bright side it is character building.
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jones says:
July 12, 2014 at 2:57 am
Just where is the heat hiding?
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The US military should perform studies on the hiding heat in the hopes of improving their stealth technology.

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