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airiefairie ([personal profile] airiefairie) wrote2018-03-04 10:34 am
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Scrambled poles

North Pole surges above freezing in the dead of winter, stunning scientists

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.