PARIS — Eastern Antarctica has recorded exceptionally
high temperatures this week, more than 30°C above normal, say experts.
The Concordia research base at Dome C of the Antarctic, which
is at an altitude of 3,000m, on Friday registered a record -11.5°C,
Etienne Kapikian, a meteorologist from France-Meteo tweeted.
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Normally, temperatures fall with the end of the southern
summer, but the Dumont d'Urville station on Antarctica registered record
temperatures for March with 4.9°C, at a time of year when normally temperatures
are already sub-zero.
Gaetan Heymes of
France Meteo described the unseasonably
mild weather as a "historic event".
And geoscientist Jonathan Wille wrote on Twitter: "And
there it is, Concordia broke its all-time record temperature by 1.5°C.
"This is when temperatures should be rapidly falling
since the summer solstice in December.
"This is a Pacific Northwest 2021 heat wave kind of
event," he added. "Never supposed to happen."
The unprecedented temperatures come after the
National Snow and Ice Data Center in the US said Antarctica's sea ice fell below 2 million
square kilometers in late February for the first time since 1979.
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