Antarctica Below -50C; China's Frozen Highways; Thick Ice Traps Killer Whales Off Japan; Historic Snow In Nova Scotia; + New Study: "Climate Deniers" Aren't Lying To Themselves - Surprises Researchers

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Antarctica Crashes Below -50C (-58F)

Antarctica's first sub -50C (-58F) of the year was posted yesterday, February 5.

A low of -52.4C (-65.6F) was observed at the French-Italian owned facility Concordia.

Elsewhere on the Plateau, the South Pole Station nudged below the -40C threshold, with a reading of -40.1C (-40.2F). While Dome C has seen -49C (-56.2F).

Today, February 6, Concordia is giving a low of -51.5C (-60.7F), which is just shy of the lowest temperature on the planet -- that's taken by the Summit Camp, Greenland with its low of -51.6C (-60.9F).

The Antarctic Plateau continues to cool, the data are very clear on that.

Greenland has been holding very cold, and all, though the snowfall hasn't been there to aid SMB growth. The snow has been building further south instead, breaking long-standing records across the likes of Siberia, Alaska and Atlantic Canada...

Historic Snow In Nova Scotia

An amateur observer in Sydney, Nova Scotia has reported 150.4 cm (4.9 ft) of snow since Friday — this is historic.

In a report by CBC meteorologist Ryan Snodden, "incredible amounts of snow" have fallen from Pictou County to the eastern shore and east of that line, with 105 cm posted in Spanish Ship Bay and also that 150.4 cm in Sydney.

An official ECCC station at North Mountain (439 m) in the northern part of Cape Breton was posting 128 cm (4.2 ft).

The great snow storms of the recent past have been eclipsed by this one, including 'White Juan' (2004) and the 'Blizzard of 92', after "the snow just kept coming and coming and coming"…