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From: Sam	2/27/2018 7:21:20 AM
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North Pole surges above freezing in the dead of winter, stunning scientists By Jason Samenow February 26 at 1:52 PM washingtonpost.com GFS model analysis of temperature difference from normal (in Celsius) on Sunday over the Arctic. The temperature is above freezing at the North Pole. (University of Maine Climate Re-analyzer) The sun won’t rise at the North Pole until March 20, and it’s normally close to the coldest time of year, but an extraordinary and possibly historic thaw swelled over the tip of the planet this weekend. Analyses show that the temperature warmed to the melting point as an enormous storm pumped an intense pulse of heat through the Greenland Sea. Temperatures may have soared as high as 35 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) at the pole, according to the U.S. Global Forecast System model. While there are no direct measurements of temperature there, Zack Labe, a climate scientist working on his PhD at the University of California at Irvine, confirmed that several independent analyses showed “it was very close to freezing,” which is more than 50 degrees (30 degrees Celsius) above normal. GFS model analysis of temperatures (in Celsius) on Sunday over the Arctic. (University of Maine Climate Re-analyzer) The warm intrusion penetrated right through the heart of the Central Arctic, Labe said. The temperature averaged for the entire region north of 80 degrees latitude spiked to its highest level ever recorded in February. The average temperature was more than 36 degrees (20 degrees Celsius) above normal. “No other warm intrusions were very close to this,” Labe said in an interview, describing a data set maintained by the Danish Meteorological Institute that dates back to 1958. “I was taken by surprise how expansive this warm intrusion was.” continues at washingtonpost.com [Let's see, the planet hasn't warmed since 1998, but if it has, it is entirely due to the sun not FFs, but the Arctic is currently above freezing in Feb even though it is the dead of winter and the sun has barely risen for more than a few minutes for months now. Right. Got it.]

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