The North Pole Hit Freezing Point, 32 F, Yesterday, Dec. 22nd “We’ve seen a year in 2016 in the Arctic like we’ve never seen before” – Dr. Jeremy Mathis, Arctic Research Program, NOAA For the second time in six weeks, temperatures in the North Pole have spiked to record highs. Yesterday, in an unprecedented turn of events, a buoy ~145 km from the North Pole registered a temperature of exactly freezing, which […] Weather Sergei Poljak | December 23, 2016 0 Comments
VIDEO: 2016 Arctic Sea Ice Hits Another Wintertime Record Low According to NASA, On March 24, Arctic sea ice extent peaked at 5.607 million square miles (14.52 million square kilometers), a new record low winter maximum extent in the satellite record that started in 1979. It is just smaller than the previous record low maximum extent of 5.612 million square miles (14.54 million square kilometers) that occurred last year. The 13 […] Weather Chris Wallner | March 30, 2016 0 Comments
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