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Early stratospheric warming waves emerging around Antarctic polar vortex

Teo Blašković — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 18:39:00 +0000

The Antarctic stratosphere is showing initial signs of disruption, as early warming waves form around a persistently cold polar vortex core. Further intensification and broadening of the anomalies are forecast for July 2025.

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South Pole registers coldest winter on record

Teo Blašković — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 08:35:00 +0000

A weather station at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station registered record cold winter temperatures this season (April - September), averaging at -61.1 °C (-77.9 °F) and breaking the previous record set in 1976 at -60.6 °C (-77 °F). Weather records...

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NOAA and BGS update World Magnetic Model (WMM)

TW — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:34:00 +0000

NOAA officials announced yesterday the World Magnetic Model (WMM), a representation of Earth’s large-scale magnetic field and an indispensable complement to GPS devices used by NATO, the United States and United Kingdom militaries, as well as civil applications ra

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Are we facing an end of Antarctic as we know it?

Chillymanjaro — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:18:09 +0000

Regional warming, over-fishing, pollution, invasive species creeping into the area, ocean acidification and loss of sea ice around South Pole region are the most immediate threats for waters around Antarctic. And all those threats are linked to global levels of carbon

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Impact of polar ozone depletion on subtropical precipitation

Chillymanjaro — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:53:00 +0000

The ozone hole over Antarctica has been rearranging rainfall patterns throughout the Southern Hemisphere for decades, a new modeling analysis shows. The idea that losing ozone in the cold stratosphere over the South Pole could affect weather in the lower atmosphere...

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