The 'heat intrusion' that exists over the Blue Ice of Antarctica is persistent. The reason is because it is coming down in density from above.
I once believed the 'heat' of Earth generated by Human Induced Global Warming would seek relief to the outside atmospheric layers of Earth in that the vortices carried the heat to the highest layers of Earth's troposphere. The vortices 'live' far higher than any weather pattern. They are hydrologic in nature. The vortices don't exist without water vapor.
However, knowing there are fewer and fewer gas molecules in the stratosphere, that 'theory/hope' might prove to be false. In other words, without sufficient gas molecules, primarily water vapor in my opinion, the dissipation of the heat of Human Induced Global Warming to the 'outer atmosphere' of Earth is impossible. I believe that is what I am witnessing now.
I believe this is an early warning to the 'trend' of heating of Earth. Carbon dioxide with it's accumulation in the troposphere has not only increased the temperature of the air surrounding Earth where the biotic environment exists, it has trapped it there.
As a result, the heat is saturating the troposphere from the top down. The additional heat people 'feel' from year to year. The increase in hurricane activity. The disruption of the biotic nature of Earth leading to species demise AT THE SURFACE is due to the reflective properties and radiant properties of land masses.
However, that is not all the story.
What is being neglected in estimating the demise of the biotic nature of Earth is the fact the radiant heat from the surface of Earth will eventually be met with the accumulated heat of the upper tropopshere. When that occurs there will be no relief from the heat and Earth's biotic surface will be too hostile to support life. If I were an Antarctica Scientist right now, I'd be sending weather balloons, capable of measuring temperatures and gas concentrations, high into the troposphere to record the change in 'average' temperatures at those altitudes. Quite frankly, I am sure they are doing exactly that, especially considering the vast expedition of science and scientists currently taking over Antarctica.
To discuss briefly the satellite picture below. There is only one place where a heat accumulation is occuring. Over the 3 mile high Blue Ice. There is grossly absent from that satellite any contributing 'offshore' sources of heat. There is some minor movement off southern South America, but, by in large considering the 'build up' of heat since the beginning of the week when I first noted it, there is not enough 'offshore' sources to justify the increase over the Blue Ice. It is coming in accumulation from above.
In other words, the 'first detections' of upper tropospheric heat accumulations are now being noted in temperature satellites.
I'll discuss this further on the satellite picture of the Northern Hemisphere but I want to record some temperatures first.
The coldest conditions in Antarctica today are:
Vostok with a noted warming trend of -50 degrees celcius. 35% humidity. Winds 12 mph / 18 kmph at 6:00 PM VOST (Vostok time) under Clear conditions.
The ‘temperate’ areas are increasing in number. Those areas are increasing drastically in temperature as well, but, I need to be careful here. The highest temperatures are in majority on the Peninsula. While that is unfortunate and wrong, it doesn’t speak to the phenomena being noted here. The peninsula temperatures are important to realize the ice shelves, at sea level are more threatened than not, but, that is another issue. Antarctica has many and varied what might be called ‘micro-environments’ but that isn’t exactly accurate either, because each ‘unique’ area of Antarctica still contributes to the biotic balance of the continent. So the ‘sectioned’ environments such as the Ross Ice Shelf vs. The Peninsula vs. the Blue Ice is important, however, Antarctica is ice. Frozen water. In many ways, what affects one section of Antarctica environment impacts all others.
So, I believe it will be better to settle on a few 'inland' stations of monitoring rather than 'any' station with the lowest temperature. But, to make that point I list the warmest station today as:
Base Esperanza with a temperature of 9 degree Celcius, a humidity of 24% and winds of 29 mph / 46 km/h at 12:00 PM GMT with Overcast Conditions.
As to 'other' inland conditions, I debated including several locations, but, that might prove to be confusing, so, I'll just make the note of my stalworth for years now, Scott Base. I'll just list it daily. See below:
