![]() ![]() ![]() Here is an example of the large day-to-day temperature changes (weather) around the world: - Zack Labe February 10, 2021 However, record highs will increasingly outpace the cold. “This is the second-coldest winter (June-July-August months) on record, behind only 2004 in the 60-year weather record at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station,” the NSIDC said.Įven in a warming world (climate change), there are areas of below average temperatures and record cold. Here, the sun sets for the last time around the spring equinox, and does not rise again until near the autumn equinox six months later.įor the entire Antarctic continent, the winter of 2021 was the second-coldest on record, with the “temperature for June, July, and August 3.4 degrees Celsius (6.1 degrees Fahrenheit) lower than the 1981 to 2010 average at -62.9 degrees Celsius (-81.2 degrees Fahrenheit),” according to a new report from the NSIDC. The last six months is also the darkest period at the South Pole, which is where the name polar darkness (also called polar night) comes from. “For the polar darkness period, from April through September, the average temperature was -60.9 degrees Celsius (-77.6 degrees Fahrenheit), a record for those months,” the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said. ![]() In a year of extreme heat, Antarctica’s last six months were the coldest on record. ![]()
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