The North Pole “unfroze” today, experiencing a temperature high of upwards 40 degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature that’s “unheard of” in the area during winter months, according to ABC News meteorologist Melissa Griffin.
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Though fluctuations in temperature are not uncommon in the Arctic region, a 10 degC shift is very notable. This would make it milder than much of Canada and the US.
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The warm weather system that caused the deadly storm to batter parts of the United States is on the move towards Iceland and is predicted to bring warm air that could melt ice at the North Pole. There have reportedly only been three other times since 1948 that temperatures in the North Pole have hit or risen above freezing in December, Time magazine reports.
The warm air of the Gulf Stream and winds from the jet stream have created what meteorologists call a “weather bomb”, where the central pressure of a storm drops by at least 24 millibars in 24 hours.
There are no weather recording stations in the North Pole, so computer models are the closest predictors we can get, FOX 61 reported.
Ferrell pointed out that the temperatures in the North Pole were about the same and even slightly warmer than in southern California, which has experienced unusual cold.
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Meanwhile in habitable areas around the North Atlantic, winds are howling and waves are rocking the coastline. A Christmas weekend storm brought up to 8 inches of addition rainfall on saturated soil. The Met Office listed just a small portion of the December records that were set last weekend, in some cases blowing away the previous December records by 250mm.
