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| Chicago Is Colder Than Parts Of Antarctica, Alaska, Iceland |
| 2019-01-26 |
| Chicago (CBS) ‐ If you think it feels like Antarctica outside, you’re actually wrong. Chicago is currently colder than some parts of Antarctica. As of noon on Friday, the temperature in Chicago is 2 degrees Fahrenheit, but it feels like -16 degrees. According to Accuweather, it is 34 degrees at the Cape Shirreff Field Station In Antarctica. Further south, the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is reporting a temperature of -6 degrees, not much different than the Chicago area’s current temperatures. According to the National Weather Service, Chicago and other Midwest cities are even colder than parts of Alaska. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 If only it would stay that way... |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2019-01-26 20:13 |
| #9 OK smartasses, then why did the news from Perth say it would only be 21 degrees today? |
| Posted by: CBS News 2019-01-26 20:04 |
| #8 it is 34 degrees at the Cape Shirreff Field Station In Antarctica. As a pedantic geography nerd, allow me to point out that the Cape Shirreff field station is near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula (the tip of the duck's beak, if you will) at approximately 62 degrees south latitude. It is not the south pole and if memory serves, the climate on the peninsula is considered maritime and not polar. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-01-26 18:11 |
| #7 I talked to AP on the phone yesterday. It was 43F in Anchorage where he was. It was -7F where I was in the Chicago burbs |
| Posted by: 3dc 2019-01-26 15:53 |
| #6 Anyone who's ever been there this time of year could have told them that. #3 Dear CBS - you know it's summer time in the southern hemisphere? Please don't confuse them with facts. Besides, who can even see the Southern Hemisphere from Manhattan? |
| Posted by: charger 2019-01-26 11:14 |
| #5 Not only colder, but more dangerous. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2019-01-26 10:52 |
| #4 So this is further evidence of 'global warming', right, CBS? |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-01-26 06:40 |
| #3 Dear CBS - you know it's summer time in the southern hemisphere? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-01-26 06:20 |
| #2 Well it is summertime with 24 hour sunshine down there |
| Posted by: Jim Cramer6666666 2019-01-26 05:05 |
| #1 "Another cold day in Chicago," Sez Frank to a half-frozen Iago. "Just wait," weighs in Satan, "At the rate that they're hatin', D.C.'ll be Doctor Zhivago!" |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2019-01-26 04:55 |