Will the North Pole move more than 100 miles between 2020 and 2025?
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When the WMM2025 is released, this question will resolve YES if the distance between the WMM2025's north dip pole result and WMM2020's result (longitude 164.04°E and latitude 86.50°N) is greater than 100 nautical miles.

You can find more information here: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/WMM/limit.shtml

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Based on the WMM2025 coefficients for 2025.0, the Geomagnetic North Pole is at 72.76°W longitude and 80.85°N geodetic latitude (80.79°N geocentric), and the Geomagnetic South Pole is at 107.24°E longitude and 80.85°S geodetic latitude (80.79°S geocentric).

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/wandering-geomagnetic-poles

This is well over 600 nautical miles, more than enough to resolve YES.

Might be worth changing the title to specify this is the magnetic pole and it's about nautical not statute miles.

Going off of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_magnetic_pole in 2009 it was moving "at between 55 and 60 km (34 and 37 mi) per year". There are some projections for current movement but I'm too lazy to calculate the distances/speeds.

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