Met office "faking" climate data

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One swallow does not make a summer.
I wonder if the issue is that warmer average temperatures put more moisture in the atmosphere, which in turn is able to dump more snow in Antarctica and that we just turned a point where the increase in snow offset the melting.

Folk on both sides of the subject point out that local weather isn’t the same as the overall planetary climate…until the local weather appears to back up their view point

That's pretty much it. Intensified warming in the tropics pushed moisture along an atmospheric river to Antarctica.