February 9, 20080600 PMAntarctica Surface Wind Satellite (click here for 24 hour loop)The surface winds offer some interesting insight. The coastal areas are experiencing on shore winds with high velocity, while the winds at the top of the Blue Ice are moving off those higher altitudes and falling to lower latitudes mixing with those incoming heat transfers. This time however, as compared to the previous event whereby so much of the frigid aire of the top Blue Ice, which is far denser than the coastal, warmer air, moved to the right in this satellite photo and was pushed from a long standing area of East Antarctica; is different. This time the top altitude seems to have an 'equal' distribution of air movement in both directions from the Blue Ice which might very well indicate there is a loss of ice and a leveling of the top altitude Ice Mass. I find this air movement different than any previous and may be due to the changing shape of the Blue Ice due to sublimination.
February 9, 20080600 gmtAntarctica Jet StreamIn the satellite picture below, showing the entire southern hemisphere, it's obvious from that and the Jet Stream satellite above that the Antarctica Vortex is still reaching higher latitudes while chronically bringing in heat. At 8 PM in the image above a significant heat transfer is noted arriving to the Antarctica Ice Sheets. This while the center of the vortex remains consistently steady and primarily unaffected. That lends itself to a potential for a return to a deeper freeze, at least at the highest elevations of the Blue Ice.
February 9, 200912 PM UTCTemperature Satellite
February 9, 20081323 gmt AntarcticaThe warmest reporting stations in Antarctica:Base Esperanza, Antarctica (Airport)
Time :: 1 PM on 2/9/08
Elevation :: 43 ft / 13 m
Temperature :: 37 F / 3 C
Conditions :: Scattered Clouds
Humidity :: 49%
Dew Point :: 25 F / -4 C
Wind :: Calm
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: 29.66 in / 1004 hPa (Rising)
Visibility :: 9.0 miles / 15.0 kilometers
Clouds :: Few 886 ft / 270 m
Mostly Cloudy 4921 ft / 1500 m
(Above Ground Level)
Great Wall, Antarctica (Airport)
Time :: 1 PM on 2/9/08
Time :: 1:00 PM EST
Temperature :: 38 F / 4 C
Conditions :: Partly Cloudy
Humidity :: 57 %
Dew Point :: 28 F / -2 C
Wind :: 7 mph / 11 km/h from the South
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: 29.67 in / 1005 hPa (Rising)
Visibility :: 19.0 miles / 30.0 kilometers
King Sejong, Antarctica (Airport)
Time :: 1 PM EST on 2/9/08
Temperature :: 37 F / 3 C
Conditions :: Mostly Cloudy
Humidity :: 82%
Dew Point :: 33 F / 1 C
Wind :: 12 mph / 18 km/h from the SW
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: 29.59 in / 1002 hPa (Steady)
Visibility :: 16.0 miles / 25.0 kilometers
Elevation :: 33 ft / 10 m
The coldest reporting station in Antarctica:
Vostok
Time :: 6 PM VOST on February 09, 2008
Elevation :: 11220 ft / 3429 meters
Temperature :: -36 F / -38 C
Conditions :: Partly Cloudy
Humidity :: 41%
Dew Point :: -45 F / -43 C
Wind :: 14 mph / 22 km/h from the WSW
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: Rising
Visibility :: 12.0 miles / 20.0 kilometers
Siple Dome
Updated: 6:50 AM NZDT on February 10, 2008
Elevation :: 9285 ft / 2830 m
Temperature :: - 51 F / -46 C
Conditions :: Ice Crystals
Windchill :: -78 F / -61 C
Wind :: 9 mph / 15 km/h / 4.1 m/s from the ENE
Pressure :: 28.20 in / 955 hPa (Falling)
Windchill :: -78 F / -61 C
Visibility :: 5.6 miles / 9.0 kilometers
UV :: 1 out of 16
Clouds :: Few 3000 ft / 914 m
(Above Ground Level)
Dome C
Time :: 12:20 PM EST on 2/9/08
University Wi Id 8904, Antarctica (Airport)
Updated: 1 hr 35 min 42 sec ago
Elevation :: 10761 ft / 3280 meters
Temperature :: -56 F / -49 C
Wind :: 2 mph / 4 km/h from the WSW
Wind Gust :: -
Pressure :: in / hPa
