{"id":1526,"date":"2020-02-09T04:49:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T17:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2020-02-09T04:55:46","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T17:55:46","slug":"polar-winters-07-july-1934-the-winter-has-been-unseasonably-warm-for-such-low-latitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=1526","title":{"rendered":"POLAR WINTERS. 07 July 1934. \u201cThe winter has been unseasonably warm for such low latitudes. On one occasion the thermometer touched 16 deg. above zero.” This was during winter because of warmer winds moving further south than usual. Somehow they are astounded that with the hot northerly winds we’ve had this summer, a bit of that warmth might reach the Antarctic and cause a .09 degree record."},"content":{"rendered":"
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POLAS WINTERS. (1934, July 7). Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 \u2013 1954)<\/i>, p. 6. Retrieved January 16, 2020, from https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/41507665?searchTerm=hot%20summers%20and%20cold%20winters&searchLimits=#<\/a><\/p>\n

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Wireless messages from the Byrd expedition, which is wintering in the Antarctic, state that so far the winter has been unseasonably warm for such low latitudes.<\/div>\n
For twelve days in succession, with one exception, the temperature was above zero, and<\/span> on<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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one occasion the thermometer touched 16 deg. above zero.<\/div>\n
But even in this unseasonably weather the temperature has been well below freezing point.<\/div>\n
Mr. Haines, the senior meteorologist of the Byrd expedition, states that the streams of warm air are pouring through the upper atmosphere from the oceans to the north.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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He does not know whether the present spell of warm weather in the Antarctic is exceptional, as the data in regard to winter conditions are limited.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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According to popular belief there is a great similarity between the Arctic and<\/span> Antarctic regions, both being intensely cold,<\/span> covered with ice and <\/span>snow, and<\/span> having months of continuous daylight in summer, and<\/span> months of continuous darkness in winter.<\/div>\n
But to scientists the contrasts between the two Polar regions are more striking than their similarities.<\/div>\n
The Arctic region is an ocean, with numerous islands, and<\/span> is surrounded by the north coasts of the three continents of Europe, Asia and<\/span> America, but the Antarctic is a continent surrounded by ocean.<\/div>\n
This continent of Antarctica is about 4,000,000 square miles in extent, and,<\/span> therefore, is not<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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only larger than Australia, but larger than Europe. \u201cAntarctica possesses a distinctive character, which in many particulars is distinctively unique,\u201d states Mr. J. Gordon Hayes, in his book \u201cAntarctica.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cIts most prominent feature is its dis-similarity from other continents. It has no water apart from the sea which en-circles it, and<\/span> this near the coasts is almost invariably frozen. It has no<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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rivers except a few small glacial streams, whose bonds are unsealed occasionally in summer. Glaciers are the rivers of Antarctica.<\/div>\n
It has no lakes, and<\/span> few frozen pools. It has no trees or flowers, no soil worth cultivating, no land animals, no inhabitants, and<\/span> has never seen a woman.<\/div>\n
It is positively unique as a continent in its isolation and<\/span> height above sea level, in the heaviness of its glacierisation with its barrier of shelf ice, the magnitude of its glaciers and <\/span>continental ice and<\/span> the velocity we might say ferocity\u2014of its winds.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cIn the distribution of land and <\/span>water there are striking contrasts between north and<\/span> south Polar regions,\u201d states Dr. R. N. Rudmose Brown in his book \u201cThe Polar Regions.\u201d \u201cThe North Polar regions consist of an ice-covered sea almost completely girdled by continental land.<\/div>\n
In that sea, the Arctic Ocean, lie various groups of islands, large and<\/span> small, which are all more or less accessible. None lie in the heart of the ice-covered sea, but all are strictly Polar.<\/div>\n
The Pole itself is in deep water. Sea and<\/span> not land is the dominant feature of the Arctic. In the<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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south the principal feature is the great ice-covered continent on which lies the Pole. The continent is girdled completely by a great ocean, which cuts off Antarctica from the nearest<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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land masses.<\/div>\n
The Arctic is a region of varied climates, and<\/span> so of varied productiveness; the Antarctic has one<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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climate, that varies only in degrees, and<\/span> is everywhere unproductive.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Arctic abounds in plant and <\/span>animal life; the Antarctic, apart from the sea is a barren desert.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

POLAS WINTERS. (1934, July 7). Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 \u2013 1954), p. 6. Retrieved January 16, 2020, from https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/41507665?searchTerm=hot%20summers%20and%20cold%20winters&searchLimits=# […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[273,56,227,54,922,138,1122,1120,728,137,951],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}