Antarctica & Chicago (intersection of tags)
12 Antarctica posts • 930 Chicago posts • 8 in common
- G.I. Joe snow adventures in comic books and 1400 GalleryComic books that take place in the snow are so cool. I love arctic adventures. Two G.I. Joe comic books take place in Antarctica. One from 1989 (G.I. Joe Special Missions #20), the other from 2006 (G.I. Joe Special Missions…
- Chicago just four degrees warmer than the South PoleChicago hit 9 degrees below zero last night. Antarctica in its summer reached negative 13. That’s just four degrees difference! Where are are the penguins! I want some penguins walking around Chicago. Last year in 2008 we got within 14…
- Will the South Pole break negative 100 this year?Image courtesy feuilllu via creative commons The South Pole has reached negative 90 degrees fourteen times so far this year. The lowest being ‚-95 on June 14 and June 23. Can they break negative 100? Here’s the temperatures for June:…
- It never gets above zero degrees in Antartica The South Pole has not experienced an above zero temperature since January 13, 2002. Can you imagine? Never having temperatures above zero? You’d always have to say “it’s negative thirty” or “it’s thirty below zero.” You’d think they would have…
- Does Chicago ever get colder than the South Pole?As Antartica experiences its summer season, Chicago gets hit with winter. Often it gets super cold in Chicago, and it makes me wonder if we ever get colder temperatures than Antartica. And I’m talking South Pole, Antartica. On January 18,…
- The indignified globeWhile riding the CTA, someone was carrying a globe with such indignity. In the same hand was a newspaper and our precious planet. Upside-down the earth was as if it were some handbag. A huge dent in one side from…
- South Pole weather forecast for extreme temperaturesThe weather forecast for the South Pole today is a high of 17°, but tomorrow’s high is -61°. That is a difference of 78 degrees!
- 67 degree difference between days in AnatarticaWow, can you imagine having a forecast that has a 67∆í difference from one day to the next? Well, at the South Pole’s Amundsen-Scott’s station it will be -67° on Saturday, and then 0° on Sunday.
