Heat Wave in Antarctica

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December 17, 2007 - Heat Wave in Antarctica.

“There were people outside in T-shirts.
I didn't think it would get this warm in Antarctica.”
- Yvonne Boesterling, Scott Base Co-ordinator

Hut Point Peninsula, near Scott Base, Antarctica, is in an unsual
heatwave of 3 degrees Celsius (37.4 degrees Fahrenheit).
Image [below]courtesy Scott Base.

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Personally, ~38degrees F is too cold for tshirts on my body.

It's all what you get used to. I remember one winter day while working on an oil rig in Alaska when the thermometer got up to 30 degrees. We had a barbeque outside!

It's all what you get used to.

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How true... and why foreign troops have always suffered in far away battlefields.. it's always the disease, heat, cold etc that is hard to get used to. That and the problem of exposure etc that can make wish for warmer climes.

I'm not sure what the averages are in Antartica, but it seems anything near the freezing point spells radical change for the iceflows/icebergs/ice shelfs etc in the area affecting the world's oceans and the salinity levels etc.... same for the North Pole/Artic Circle area.

Then the drought/flood shifts all affecting the 'climate change' patterns worldwide... seems to confirm the 'Day After Tomorrow' scenario... as we jump into the next ice age admist all the other changes.