Old Antarctic weather records are now being destroyed. Measured to 40 degrees above the previous average.
Not only in Austria, temperatures are rising and it is getting warmer, the rise can also be felt in frosty Antarctica. On March 18, the Concordia research station measured minus 12.2 degrees. This corresponds to about 40 degrees above the average temperature at this time. The old temperature record, which was around minus 30 degrees Celsius, was also broken, WMO said on Tuesday in Geneva.
The coldest place on earth is melting
The new heat record was also measured directly at the “Vostok” station. On a plateau 3,200 meters served by France and Italy, minus 17.7 degrees was measured. In June 1983 in “Vostok” minus 89.2 degrees Celsius was measured and therefore it is generally considered to be the coldest place in the world.
According to a French meteorologist, the reason why the temperature rises in the meantime is caused by ‘atmospheric flow’. This means a band of moisture-saturated air several kilometers above the Earth’s surface that carries heat and moisture.
Robert Rohde of the Berkely Earth environmental data institute said on Twitter about the latest records: “With this event, the books of records and our expectations of what is possible in Antarctica must be rewritten.” “Is this just a very unlikely event or is it a sign that more is to come? Nobody knows at the moment.
The consequences of high temperatures are particularly worrying. According to this, more ice at the South Pole melted in February than ever since data recording began in 1979. Thus, for the first time in history, the entire surface of the ice fell below two million square kilometers.
Temperatures at the North Pole have also risen sharply due to man-made climate change. Overall, growth at the poles is twice the global average. In December 2021, the temperature record was also recorded in Verkhoyansk – during this time 38 degrees were measured in northern Siberia. A new record was also set in Antarctica in the summer of 2020 with 18 degrees.
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