Both the north and south poles are currently melting at the same time, which is highly unusual

[marmar]

If it's feeling unseasonably warm where you live, there's a scientifically alarming reason for it.

According to recent updates from Extreme Temperatures Around The World, a weather specific Twitter account run by extreme weather record tracker Maximiliano Herrera, Earth's poles are currently exhibiting unusually extreme heat with areas of Antarctica more than 70 degrees warmer than average, and parts of the Arctic over 50 degrees warmer than usual.

"They are opposite seasons. You don't see the north and the south (poles) both melting at the same time," Walt Meier, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado told The Associated Press Friday night. "It's definitely an unusual occurrence."

As a whole, The Antarctic continent was about 8.6 degrees warmer on Friday than a baseline temperature for this season established between the years 1979 and 2000, according to the University of Maine's Climate Reanalyzer, based on U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration weather models reported on by Associated Press.

"Not a good sign when you see that sort of thing happen," said University of Wisconsin meteorologist Matthew Lazzara. .............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2022/03/19/feeling-hotter-than-it-should-be-where-you-live-youre-not-alone/

[BlueJac]

1. We have lots of time to waste ruining the planet!

So sad Dems like Manchin could careless about a dire situation!

[Blues Heron]

2. its still below freezing at the South pole

It can actually be 70 degrees warmer than normal and still be below freezing down there. But to say the South pole is melting is hyperbole.