Experts say that eastern Antarctica has recorded high temperatures this week.
On Friday, the research base at Dome C, which is at an altitude of 3,000 meters (9,800 feet), set a record for the warmest day in history.
It is impossible, we would have said until two days ago. From today (March 18) the Antarctic climatology has been rewrittenAt Concordia the high recorded -12.2 °C and broken the absolute maximum set on 17 December 2016 (-13.7 °C)
At Vostok the provisional high is -20.3 °C 👇 pic.twitter.com/PYm48XdHLh
— Stefano Di Battista (@pinturicchio_60) March 18, 2022
Normally, temperatures fall with the end of the southern summer, but the Dumont d'Urville station registered a record for March with a temperature of 4.9C (40.82F), at a time of year when temperatures are already sub-zero.
The mild weather was described as a historic event by Gaetan Heymes of France Meteo.
And there it is, Concordia broke its all time record temperature.
This is the time when temperatures should fall rapidly since the summer solstice in December.
This is a heat wave in the Pacific Northwest in 2021.
Extraordinary anomalies in #Antarctica lead to historic records today:-Vostok 3489m -17.7C,monthly record beaten by nearly 15C !-Concordia 3234m -12.2C,highest Temp. on records and about 40C above average !-Dome C II 3250m -10.1C-D-47 1560m -3.3C
-Terra Nova Base 74S +7.0C pic.twitter.com/w6Ry4Dy4wz
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) March 18, 2022
The National Snow and Ice Data Center in the United States said in February that the sea ice in Antarctica fell below two million square kilometers for the first time since 1979.
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