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LiberalArkie

(15,728 posts) Sat Jul 7, 2018, 01:27 PM Jul 2018

Any weather geeks out there? Why does it look like there is a hurricane at the North Pole?

https://climatereanalyzer.org/wx/DailySummary/#mslp

I think that it has the lowest Sea Level pressure on the globe

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Any weather geeks out there? Why does it look like there is a hurricane at the North Pole? (Original Post) LiberalArkie Jul 2018 OP

The actual wind speeds aren't very high. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #1

I just have never seen the low pressure and lack of ice etc that far north. LiberalArkie Jul 2018 #3

Every year there is less and less ice there. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #5

Could be a flare up True Dough Jul 2018 #2

Coriolis effect, maybe?... SidDithers Jul 2018 #4

Per Pat Robertson, there must be gay elves at Santa's Workshop. NightWatcher Jul 2018 #6

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,902 posts)

1. The actual wind speeds aren't very high.

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Sat Jul 7, 2018, 01:33 PM

Jul 2018

https://www.ventusky.com/?p=74.0;-142.7;3&l=wind-10m

My guess is that winds circling the pole like that may be more or less normal.

LiberalArkie

(15,728 posts)

3. I just have never seen the low pressure and lack of ice etc that far north.

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 7, 2018, 01:37 PM

Jul 2018

Down south it would be called a tropical depression. But there was talk years ago that the poles night start having hurricane like occurrences in the future.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,902 posts)

5. Every year there is less and less ice there.

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #3)

Sat Jul 7, 2018, 04:26 PM

Jul 2018

So that's the new normal. I can't make any kind of intelligent comment on the low pressure, since I simply don't know enough. But again, the wind speeds are unremarkable.