Seeing these two posts next to each other on my blog draws a connection between the shape of Antarctica and the shape of a lotus flower. If these two images look rather similar, what would a reverse image search for the lotus flower turn up? One map in particular matches up pretty nicely from historytoday.com …
I had the greatest map Antarctica hanging in my dining room when I lived in Lincoln Square. I got it at the Rand McNally closing sale on Michigan Avenue for $6. Some of the lines were printed in silver ink. I can’t believe 17 years later I found the same map online for sale! $10 …
Chicago 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 degrees of the South Pole. (Also, these temperature readings are from the Amundsen-Scott base in …
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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: http://www.wunderground.com/history/station/89009/2008/6/1/MonthlyHistory.html
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 to say those phrases so much that they would just say the number and not …
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, 2008, Chicago was just 14 degrees warmer than the South Pole at 3:50am. January 18, …
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Check out the webcam of the South Pole. It’s -43.1¬∞ F at the South Pole. Wind Chill -72.2¬∞F. And to think, this is their summer right now.
Imagine you are an alien. You are approaching planet earth for the first time. You could totally end up approaching earth from any direction. What if you approached earth from what we call the bottom, and you see Antarctica first? You would think that our entire planet is based around this one continent! In fact, …
While 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 banging it all about. But what the most striking was how the stand pierced the …
The 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!
Wow, 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.
