I've had a webcam picture of the North Pole -
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/npole/images/noaa1.jpg - set as a desktop item on
my PM for the last couple of weeks, after I came across it via a message
here. Rather reassuring to see that there is actually a pole at the North
Pole and the site of all that ice has been very welcome in this hot weather.

However, if you look at the bottom left of the picture it gives a reading
for the 'Internal Temp'. On the current version of the picture this reading
is +14degrees C. I'd be interested to know what this reading refers to.
Surely not the sea water under the ice? Maybe it's the temperature inside
the unit which contains the webcam?

I'd be interested to find out more about this - 14C seems high for anything
located around the pole but I guess it can get warm/hot above the arctic
circle at this time of the year.

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Nz