southern hemisphere – The Watchers

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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Rare Sudden Stratospheric Warming event detected over Antarctica

Rishav Kothari — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 23:03:47 +0000

A rare Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) event has been detected in the stratosphere above the Antarctic region over the past week. Forecast models predict it will start to filter down through the atmosphere later this month.

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Southern hemisphere produced its largest wave on record

Teo Blašković — Tue, 15 May 2018 19:24:00 +0000

A massive 23.8 m (78 feet) high wave has been measured near Campbell Island, New Zealand on May 9, 2018, making it the largest wave ever recorded in the southern hemisphere. A new ocean buoy, installed March 2, 2018 and located about 640 km (400 miles) south of New...

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Study links ozone hole to climate change all the way to the equator

Eye — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:14:08 +0000

In a study to be published in the April 21st issue of Science magazine, researchers at Columbia University's School of Engineering and Applied Science report their findings that the ozone hole, which is located over the South Pole, has affected the entire circulation

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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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