By P Gosselin
German weather site wetteronline.de reported “extreme winter cold” in Antarctica as the mercury plummeted to “almost minus 80 degrees Celsius” on April 29, 2024.
Image: NASA
And it’s not even winter yet.
Hat-tip: Heinz
“On April 29, almost minus 80 degrees were measured at the Russian Vostok research station. Such extreme cold is rarely reached this early in the year,” reported wetteronline.de.
The record, -89.3°C, was recorded in the middle of winter, on July 21, 1983, thus making the last week’s late April reading very unusual.
“Values below minus 80 degrees in April are also extremely rare at the Earth’s cold pole and have only been recorded three times in the last 60 years,” wetteronline.de adds.
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A spurious low temperature just like spurious high temperatures that climate crazed media screams about, both are just weather.
why spurious?
spurious; of falsified or erroneously attributed origin.
Maybe the thermometers were lying or read incorrectly.
Anyway, it’s still global warming.
Electronic temperature measurement can lie. In Australia BOM records the instanteous reading (under one second ) when WMO requires averaging over 4 minutes to try and compare with manual sighting of mercury in glass thermometers. It has been proved that BOM electronic temperatures measurements at airports can be vastly (upto 5degree C ) in error. Dr Spencer says the supposed increase in temperatures in the world is mainly due to UHI effect. Even stations in cold areas where there is temperature control in buildings can be out if the measuring instrument is badly sited. However, a low temperature result if the instrument is properly sighted and recorded is unlikely to be in error.
Spurious is commonly used in engineering (esp. electronics) to indicate a brief transient excursion. False and unintended are interchangeable in this context.
In statistics, a spurious correlation (also known as spuriousness) refers to a connection between two variables that appears to be causal but is not.
Why not sporadic?
“Sporadic” implies an expectation of recurrence, after some unspecified interval.
It may not happen again, in our observations.
It won’t be spurious just an “extreme” weather event. The Antarctic plateau winds are something else. Remember it wasn’t that long ago that there was a very high temperature in Vostok in the middle of winter. Then it was trumpeted by the press as global warming. Now crickets.
Definitely CAGW!
According to my attribution computer model running on my Commodore 64, every single observed weather event can ONLY be explained by an increase in the CO2 content of the atmosphere.
Yes, even so it’s a dry cold.
I hope the penguins are ok.
Wot’s on the telly?
the weather channel
still got penguins? oh!!
I have some spare parts for that!
My PCJr can beat your Commodore 64 any time, any day, and my goldfish can beat your goldfish, too!
I “cut my teeth” on an Atari 800 XL. (I still had a few at that time.)
If Antarctica’s “normal” winter temperatures were -80 and the current year was -60, they would show it on one of those temperature color coded “maps” as being the color of molten lava, as if it were “hot.”
This is precisely why Global Average Temperature is such an unphysical nonsense.
Isn’t it a bit early to say how cold it was? Don’t we need to check the reading in a few year’s time, when the value has been adjusted?
/s
That reasoning has NEVER been considered by the CAGW alarmists. Why should we start now with an anomalous cold period?
Interesting report. For some reason I see this having an effect on the weather thru the
Humboldt current and La Nina sometime later this year,
In a world where convenient lies are traded as inconvenient truths by politicians it is best not to try to second guess how this period will eventually be judged by those yet to be born.
Human testimony as to our presents and futures is arguably, at this time, less trustworthy than it once was in the hands of our, shall we say, holier sources. The Al Gores of this world demonstrate our overt ability to continually mock ourselves into believing there is a truth to be known from present day soothsaying at all. We still need a Hans Anderson young child to straighten us up when all is said and done.
That any of our current crop of influencers, be it in politics, academics or religion, have the ability to guide us intelligently at all remains a very, very moot point with an unwelcome feeling of the worse is to come and that brings almost all of our collected data into question too especially with AI, yet another of our many and several conceited imperfections, at work.
We reap what we sow. And if we do not look after the soil and the seeds at the very least then we are no longer wise.
As perennial fools our recovery from self- inflicted damage has always been arduous and often lasts for many, many, decades no matter what route we may follow or choose to believe in.
But its very tempting! And my own answer would be, it will be called the Age of Hysteria.
With a qualification. It is tempting to think that the last 50 or so years have been a special phenomenon with the waves of madness about climate, race, gender.
But historians in future will look at the 20C as a whole, and will connect these both to other more local and limited episodes, such as the Satanic Child Abuse, the Recovered Memory outbreaks. And they will also look more widely at the great episodes of mass murder since 1900: Soviet Union under Stalin, Germany, China’s Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, Cambodia under Pol Pot, Rwanda. And finally it will occur to some of them that WW1 and WW2 were not exactly examples of calm rational behaviour.
The deep question they will try and fail to answer is about human mass irrationality and crowd manias. In the end they will be defeated in their search for explanation, they will only be able to say that the same tendency is visible in the persistence in the mass slaughter of the Somme and Paschendale as in the other episodes, and that to get to a real reckoning on this you have to include many behaviours which the culture of the day thought of as relatively normal and rational. They will also observe that the 20C may have been more extreme, but that similar episodes have occurred all through recorded history. We had, for instance, the Inquisitions, the Thirty Years War, the witch hunts.
They will conclude in a consensus that this is an ineradicable part of human nature, that prophylaxis is the only remedy, that the important thing is to educate the public and the political class in learning to recognize the marks of collective mania, and they will devote their efforts to trying to identify episodes and ways in which a mania has started but been successfully deflated before it got to critical mass.
One wishes them luck. A lot depends on it, given the proliferation of biological and nuclear weapons, and the increasing numbers of rootless intellectuals in search of causes to get excited over.
“They will conclude in a consensus that this is an ineradicable part of human nature..”
We are, after all, just naked apes.
Naked apes covered in oil.
A glance at the UAH data displayed on the side-bar of this site will confirm that, globally, April 2024 was by far the warmest April on record. Indeed, it was the highest anomaly (difference from average) for any month in the UAH record.
But hey, it was a bit colder than average at a remote weather station in the middle of Antarctica for 10 mins on the 29th, so that evens it out.
Very strong El Nino with a lot of energy released….
El Nino. Which is now starting to subside…
Do you have any evidence of human causation.
Or will you continue to yap mindlessly. !
Temperature still very much on the TEPID side compared to most of the last 10,000 years.
Be very thankful of the slight NATURAL warming since the LIA.
And be VERY thankful those fossil fuels that provide everything that your pathetic and meaningless existence depends on, and which you use almost constantly every day.
Maybe the El Nino also caused the slightly lower than average temperature at Vostok on 29th?
roflmoa…. You have just admitted to NATURAL variability…dumbass !
“Do you have any evidence of human causation.”
Complete and utter FAILURE with every post your make. !
Can you spell hunga tonga
Tonga had no measurable effect on the GAT and certainly did not have an 18 month delated warming effect.
HT almost certainly fed into the current El Nino.. so yes HT did have an effect of the atmospheric temperatures..
HT also had an effect on Antarctic sea ice last year .
This -80C however , is hardly likely to have been anything to do with HT.
You obviously have a problem recognizing the difference between monthly-average “global temperature” (as determined by UAH satellite data) and a single-day single station land surface data report (the Russian Vostok research station) per above WUWT article.
Why am I not surprised by this?
It is still so cold that almost everyone outside the Tropics lives in heated homes or apartments, drives heated cars, works in heated buildings, and wear warm clothes most of the year.
The Earth is still in a 2.5 million-year ice age, in a cold interglacial period that alternates with very cold Glacial Periods.
The last few months all look completely normal, oscillating fairly evenly around the seasonal averages; as you would expect.
As a whole, at the moment of this random point cold spot, it was, if anything, warmer than average. I think you would call this a non-story.
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=antarctic
Vostok has a permanent temperature inversion
That means more greenhouse gases cause COOLING there, and also for most of the continent, excluding two ice shelves and the small peninsula, mainly affected by ocean currents and underseas volcanoes.
Cooler in Vostok is evidence of an increasing greenhouse effect. I doubt if the author knew that.
There is no Urban Heat Island effect in Antarctica.
No UHI for the oceans too
Oceans are warmed only by the sun.
Even you can’t be silly enough to pretend humans have warmed the oceans.
Actually add in geothermal, especially in certain areas just offshore in Antarctica and all along the tectonic plate boundaries such as the mid Atlantic Ridge. Certainly not as much as the Sun, but when geothermal heating intensifies, it does add in measurable additional heat which of course ultimately effects the global atmosphere.
Some of that Antarctic cold has been visiting New Zealand. Near record low temps. for May and power blackouts narrowly averted by voluntary reduced demand. The wind wasn’t blowing so the unreliables didn’t generate. Not even winter yet. Most banana republics are blessed with warm weather. Luckily.
No, the inversion/temperature effect is not from CO2. There is also very little moisture at the altitude where cold air is pulled down to surface. The very absence of GHG effects. It called a polar vortex exclusion zone and due to NOx and O3 reactions. You know, the ozone tgat actually manifests a change in lapse rate.
Don’t panic!
UAH doesn’t record polar areas, so the trendology results are safe.
Just a passing thought….
Is this a sign post for the general planetary cooling/”mini ice age” anticipated to come in the next 10 years?
Grand solar minimum, coupled with orbital mechanics and shift in solar magnetic field are coincidental with cooling (and volcanic activity).
Good question . . . I would have to consult the TV series “The Twilight Zone” to know for sure.
The TV series “Game of Thrones” had it right . . . winter is coming.
As in interesting aside, at what temperature does CO2 condense into dry ice at 1 bar? -78.5 °C? at 0.75 bar? -80 °C? Just thinking out loud. Is there an effective limit on the minimum temperature possible due to condensation warming?
Given the mass of liquid water currently present on Earth in addition to TPW currently in the atmosphere, I would venture that global atmospheric temperatures are very unlikely to ever descend below 0 °C (32 °F).
The partial pressure of CO2 in the atmosphere is about 32Pa so for CO2 to condense into dry ice would require a temperature below -100ºC
It must be a hole in the CO2 layer. Something let all that heat out and man must be responsible. Just like the Ozone Hole, it is our fault and we must stop it before it grows and kills us all.
I don’t speak French, so -80C is meaningless.
I can help you with that . . . -80C translates to “très froid”.
it’s dam cold..I think about same as “dry ice”…
Makes me wonder why Mars has so much CO2 in its atmosphere…..why isn’t it all frozen and laying about in the craters.
Because its atmospheric pressure is 600Pa, checkout the phase diagram above.