Seeing as noone has given a decent explanation, hewre it is from the
website:



Temperatu The temperature you see in the left corner of the picture is
correct. It is the temperature of the camera, and may be warmer than the
surrounding air temperature (think about how your car heats up on a sunny
day). Because it is spring, the temperatures are warmer than they are in the
middle of winter, when the temperatures are near -30 deg C. Also the ocean
water below the ice floes is near the freezing point for salt water (-1.7
deg C), so this helps keep the temperatures higher than they would be on
land. Click to see the temperature and other realtime data from the North
Pole instruments.






"nzuri" wrote in message
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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




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