Temperatures in eastern Antarctica are 70 degrees warmer than usual

Eastern Antarctica on Friday recorded temperatures that are 70 degrees higher than normal for this time of the year, The Washington Post reported.

Temperatures in the eastern part of the continent have soared 50 to 90 degrees above normal, raising concern from the scientific community.

The Post reported that instead of temperatures being between minus 50 and minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit, they've been closer to zero or 10 degrees Fahrenheit, which is considered to be a massive heat wave by Antarctic standards.

According to a popular weather twitter account Extreme Temps, "extraordinary anomalies in Antarctica" have lead to historic records on Friday.

"In about 65 record years in Vostok, between March and October, values above -30°C were never observed," climate journalist Stefano Di Battista told the news outlet in an email.

A researcher studying polar meteorology at the Université Grenoble Alpes Dr. Jonathan Wille also tweeted that this heatwave was "never supposed to happen."

March marks the beginning of autumn in Antarctica, when temperatures usually tend to fall, The Post noted.

Willie tweeted that the warmer than usual conditions over Antarctica were caused by an extreme weather system.

"[T]his is not something we've seen before," he said. "This moisture is the reason why the temperatures have gotten just so high," he told The Post.
 
I wonder if it's tied to some kind of volcanic activity in the area. Perhaps a yet undiscovered underground volcano (Antarctica has lots of volcanoes). There's one I found in East Antarctica, called the Pleiades volcano: Link Not too far from Vostok.

A Belgian researcher recently tweeted the following, which is why I was wondering the above:

What climate alarm scientists aren't telling you is that more than 50 new volcanoes have been discovered under Antarctica's ice since 2017. On the left a heat map and on the right the discovered volcanoes. Just where the ice occasionally drips. Coincidentally of course!


So you see that there are volcanoes near the areas where there are a bit higher temperatures. Also check the image here:

Not "global warming" or too much CO2, but an underground volcano is the cause of ice melting in West Antarctica. Most of Antarctica has increased ice. Inconvenient facts that alarmists are hiding.


But those concern western Antarctica, so I wonder if there's perhaps an undiscovered volcano in eastern parts. It could be something else, of course.
 
Perhaps it's due to the 'atmospheric river' referenced in the article (see tweet below). It would be interesting to see how the jet streams are looking, perhaps it's related? In the North, when the jet stream is meandering, there can be 'heatwaves' in the Arctic with record cold temps further south (such as in Europe).


Last winter, researchers claimed that Antarctica saw the coldest winter on record (see article linked below), so it could be that this is an example of the extreme fluctuations that are occurring amidst overall cooling? After all, this heatwave seems to be relatively short lived.

Global Warming? South Pole just underwent its coldest 'winter' in recorded history -- Sott.net

Added: Here's another period of warming that occurred recently that was considered to have been caused by the movement of the jet stream:
 
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