{"id":13815,"date":"2018-02-26T16:09:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T21:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=13815"},"modified":"2018-02-26T16:09:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T21:09:56","slug":"extremely-warm-arctic-temperatures-shock-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/02\/extremely-warm-arctic-temperatures-shock-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Extremely warm Arctic temperatures shock scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures above normal at the North Pole in February have stunned climate scientists in recent days. In some cases the temperatures have been over 60 F above average for this time of year. (That would be equivalent to Athens GA being at a temperature of 120 F or so right now). The warm temperatures are associated with open water near the upper coast of Greenland, where it is too warm for new ice to form. The <em>Sydney Morning Herald<\/em> posted this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/climate-change\/really-extreme-global-weather-event-leaves-scientists-aghast-20180226-p4z1q4.html\">article<\/a> and graph below showing how much above normal the current temperatures are. <em>Mashable.com<\/em> also posted some maps showing where the highest amount of warming is <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/2018\/02\/26\/arctic-heat-wave-north-pole-february-sea-ice\/?utm_cid=hp-h-1#M4eY7c8tYkqy\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/daily-arctic-temperature-feb-2018.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-13816\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/daily-arctic-temperature-feb-2018-300x211.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/daily-arctic-temperature-feb-2018-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/daily-arctic-temperature-feb-2018-196x138.png 196w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/daily-arctic-temperature-feb-2018.png 729w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/map-of-arctic-temps-feb-2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13817\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/map-of-arctic-temps-feb-2018-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/map-of-arctic-temps-feb-2018-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/map-of-arctic-temps-feb-2018-768x689.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/map-of-arctic-temps-feb-2018-154x138.jpg 154w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/02\/map-of-arctic-temps-feb-2018.jpg 796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures above normal at the North Pole in February have stunned climate scientists in recent days. In some cases the temperatures have been over 60 F above average for this time of year. (That would be equivalent to Athens GA being at a temperature of 120 F or so right now). The warm temperatures are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":13816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13818,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13815\/revisions\/13818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}