Is it normal that it is warmer in the Antarctic winter than at the end of April on the Zugspitze?

Winter in Antarctica lasts from March to October , and the temperature at the South Pole reaches -59°C in the coldest winter month (July). Here are two screenshots of today's temperatures (April 26, 2023) from the Neumayer Station in Antarctica and the Zugspitze:

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FelixLingelbach
1 year ago

Weather is never and nowhere normal, otherwise it didn’t take any weather forecasts, no meteorologists, nothing. It is as good as always too warm, too cold, too wet, too dry, too stormy or it does not hurt any wind. You should now compare the current data in both places with the long-term averages for this exact date, which you unfortunately reserve. But even if we had them, we could not start with it, because it is now weather, and that is changing all the time.

But as a consolation price, a small video of the Antarctica, which is unfortunately already almost completely melted by climate change:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY1AKW5IsJs

myotis
1 year ago

The winter does not take 6 months in Antarctica – and then snows summer…

So they have “summer exit”…

Neumayer III is located at 70° 40′ S, 8° 16′ W, i.e. just south of the southern polar circle…

So until recently…

At the Zugspitze is now winter exit…

…and the transitional period…

In the Antarctica it’s just like in our warm sunny October days – have you never experienced anything like that??

myotis
1 year ago
Reply to  GrandVoyager

but as you see the temperatures above the day do not differ much…

myotis
1 year ago

Why? In the southern autumn the sun only comes just above the horizon, so all in all right uniform cloudyassige days just…

Herfried1973
1 year ago

This is not the particularly cold part of Antarctica, sea level, at the ice cream.

And, of course, the fall is already at the end, the winter is in progress, and it is straight, also a result of the strong negative sea ice record this year, clearly too warm.

Zugspitze is approx. pp. cut.

In Hichland, inland at the ice, the Wostok station still has mild minus 50, but in the following days goes below – 70. That’s the Antarctica we know.

Herfried1973
1 year ago
Reply to  GrandVoyager

I wrote that it’s too warm and why.

SirAndiusNr2
1 year ago

I doubt it’s winter.

Yeah. I don’t know what kind of ideas you have. Temperatures up to +20°C are completely normal there.

SirAndiusNr2
1 year ago
Reply to  GrandVoyager

No, it’s okay. I confuse Arctic with Antarctica again. Keep watching me.

DerHans
1 year ago

In Antarctica there are also mountains that are up to 4,000 meters high. The station is (almost) at sea level. So you can’t just compare 1 : 1.

On average, 100 height meters make a difference of one degree.

Then in Antarctica you would be at 80 to 90 degrees minus.

DerHans
1 year ago
Reply to  GrandVoyager

In Antarctica, the fall has just begun.

DerHans
1 year ago

In fact, there are only a few days in spring and autumn.