Capital Weather Gang Weather buoy near North Pole hits melting point
Santa may need water skis instead of a sleigh this year.
A weather buoy about 90 miles south of the North Pole registered a temperature at the melting point of 32 degrees (0 Celsius) early Thursday, as a giant storm east of Greenland drew abnormally warm air northward.
Weather models had predicted temperatures could get this warm and this buoy, part of the North Pole Environmental Observatory, provides validation.
.. An analysis from Climate Central, a nonprofit science organization, found that a warm event of comparable intensity to what occurred in November “would have been extremely unlikely in a climate of a century ago” before heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere had grown to current levels.