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6 January 2012
World Turned Upside Down-All Time Record Warmth At The South Pole
It’s high summer in Antarctica right now and on Christmas Day the all time record high at Amundsen Scot Station was broken. The temperature reached a balmy -12.3º C. That is just a hair under 10ºF. While that may sound cold to you, for a spot at the bottom of the world that is sitting on top of two miles of ice, that’s amazing. A normal summer day at the …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.