Released:
Tuesday, March 22, 2022 5:12 p.m
The coldest place on earth is experiencing a worrying episode of warm weather like never before. the two poles of the planet experience simultaneous heat waveswith heat records reaching temperatures up to 40ºC above average.
However, it is the situation Antarctic the one that shocked the scientific community the most. You have registered there Temperatures that scientists thought almost impossible. For example, if in March the maximum temperature is usually around 50 degrees below zero, a week ago it rose to 17 below zero.
Meteorologist Gaetan Heymes, an expert with the French national weather service who spent a year in Antarctica, admits that these temperatures “were completely unthinkable until last week“. In an interview in ‘Le Monde‘ the scientist compared the importance of the phenomenon to the heatwave that hit North America in June 2021, with nearly 50ºC in Canada.
The expert points out that “these temperatures are worthy of midsummer in the south, while at this time, on the contrary, the thermometer is falling and we are heading for the polar night.” This means that despite the fact that temperatures should have dropped with the end of the southern summer, records for hot temperatures are being set for these dates.