Antarctica's Coldest November For 40-Years; Germany's Unprecedented Autumnal Chills; Record Low Temperatures Sweep Japan; + Heavy Snow Hits Hawaii

A little snow atop Hawaii's mountains isn’t particularly rare, but heavy snow/blizzard conditions are--or rather were. This is now the fifth consecutive year of heavy snow hitting the Hawaiian summit.

Antarctica's Coldest November For 40-Years

The record cold posted by Antarctic for years now is persisting, intensifying even, and it remains a topic the alarmists tellingly steer well clear of.

Antarctica, home to 90% of Earth's ice, is cooing -- the data are clear on that.

New research (Zhang et al. 2023) shows that West Antarctica’s mean annual surface temperatures cooled by more than -1.8C from 1999-2018. The cooling was most prominent during spring, with the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) cooling at a rate of -1.84C per decade.

According to the findings, the majority of the Antarctic continent has cooled by more than 1C during the past two decades.

While a 2021 study found that East Antarctica and West Antarctica have cooled (since 1979) at rates of 0.70C (1.3F) per decade and 0.42C (0.76F) per decade, respectively, with the comparatively thin strip that is the Antarctic Peninsula --you know, the area the corporate media and activist-scientists alike devote their time to-- having warmed just 0.18C (0.32F) per decade.

In real terms --where I like to reside-- the cold of recent years has been well-documented.

Looking only at 2023, this has been an exceptionally cold year at the bottom of the world.

Starting in January, readings of well-below -40C were a regular feature...

On Jan 28, Vostok logged a staggering -47.5C (-53.5F)--the station’s lowest January temperature since the -48.5C (-55.3F) of Jan 30, 1989 (solar minimum of cycle 21). Then, on Jan 29, Vostok sank even lower, posting -48.7C (-55.7F)--which took out 1989’s historical Jan low and made for the station’s coldest-ever summer temperature since its opening back in 1957.