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Originally posted by HowardRoark
Stevy, you seem to be confusing the magnetic pole with the axis of rotation.
Chandler’s wobble has nothing to do with the magnetic pole.
Originally posted by Stevy
Goes has some strange info: Now there is a "LIGHT SOURCE"??
Originally posted by Stevy
Goes has some strange info: Now there is a "LIGHT SOURCE"??
from the Alpha and Omega report:
Is there something strange going on in the skies over the South Pole? We're not sure, but there's some very puzzling information emerging after this past weekend. A NOAA weather satellite - GOES-10 has snapped some pictures from February 9th through the 12th that shows an approaching source of light, We're not sure if it is some sort of strange camera anomaly or some other easily explainable phenomenon or some unknown phenomenon.
Now, after ORBIT first noticed the anomaly, someone else ran down A webcam pic from down-under at Casey Station run by the Australian government. It also shows a strange, unexplained light source.
Originally posted by mrsdudara
Here is a link from wiki that I think you should read about Antarctica .
Scroll down to the part about the climate. The light you were talking about is called a sun dog .
Antarctica is a facination to me full of all kinds of surprises. I would like to point out something that I have thought odd for a while now. It started last year when I started this post. Unfortunatly, the links there are out dated. Anyway, here is something to keep in mind. The south pole is a desert. The minimum temp during the summer is -90 to -100 degrees fahrenheit. Right now it is only -47 degrees fahrenheit. That is about 40 degrees warmer than the norm. It has been that way for a while now. You can check the temps here at weather underground . Over the last year, or so, I have talked to the meteorologists here and to get right to it, they dont understand it either.
[edit on 17-2-2006 by mrsdudara]
It is probably what is causing the ocean currents to slow down.
Originally posted by mrsdudara
Anyway, here is something to keep in mind. The south pole is a desert. The minimum temp during the summer is -90 to -100 degrees fahrenheit. Right now it is only -47 degrees fahrenheit. That is about 40 degrees warmer than the norm. It has been that way for a while now. You can check the temps here at weather underground . Over the last year, or so, I have talked to the meteorologists here and to get right to it, they dont understand it either.
Originally posted by mrsdudara
I got the average temps from wiki and a couple different atlasses. The temps I gave were for the south pole. A lot of Antarctica has somewhat mild temperatures (for the area) like now, they are a lot warmer than I am here in Missouri. The south pole, just a small area of Antarctica is what I was talking about above. With temps -90 to -100. If that is incorrect, then they need to go through all atlasses and wiki, and change the info.
Temperatures reach a minimum of between −85 and −90 degrees Celsius (−121 and −130 degrees Fahrenheit) in the winter and about 30 degrees higher in the summer months.
RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service
Budapest, Hungary
2009-02-10 12:26:57 - Extreme Weather - Antarctica
EDIS CODE: ST-20090210-20447-ATA
Date & Time: 2009-02-10 12:26:57 [UTC]
Area: Antarctica, , Vostok Station (scientific research base),
Description:
The head of the Russian Antarctic Expedition denied on Monday media reports concerning an emergency evacuation of the Russian Antarctic station Vostok due to an extreme rise in temperature. "Don't believe them. I am writing an official denial that will be published on our website," Valery Lukin said on the phone from St. Petersburg when asked to comment on the reports. However, Lukin confirmed that a number of personnel had been transported out of the region. "This is a scheduled operation and not an emergency one. This was to be conducted in this timeframe, because the ship was unable to wait," he said, adding that 23 staff had left the station. He also said a cyclone had led to the temperature rising from minus 38 degrees Celsius (-36.4 Fahrenheit) to minus 24 (minus 11.2 Fahrenheit), but that it did not result in an emergency evacuation. Lukin said 11 people remained at the station and would be there throughout the winter. The Vostok scientific station is located in one of the
coldest areas on Earth. In 1983, a temperature of minus 89.2 degrees Celsius (-128.2 Fahrenheit) was registered in the region. Maximum temperatures in summer are no higher than minus 21 (minus 5.8 Fahrenheit). For over 40 years, Russian specialists have conducted research of hydrocarbons and minerals, drinking water reserves, medical tests. They have also studied climatic changes and ozone holes. During the Antarctic winter, the station is almost unreachable, so the station's staff are completely isolated for many months.
SOURCE
The earth has a slight wobble, called the Chandler Wobble. Over a period of 400 or so days the poles wander in crude circles 10 meters or so in radius. The fact that we have a significant equatorial bulge shows graphically that the earth is not rigid, and, if nothing else intervened, the wobble would die out in 30 years or so. Annual climatic variations between the northern and southern hemispheres account for part of the continuing wobble. Richard Gross of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory has published evidence that ocean circulation drives most of the rest. In effect, the wobble is ultimately driven by the Sun.