Argentina's national weather service clocked the warmest temperature recorded for continental Antarctica since monitoring began on February 6, when thermometers hit 18.3 C.
he was"a bit surprised" to see the 2015 record broken so quickly. He added:"This is a region of the Antarctic where we do expect to see unusually high temperatures from time to time."
This variation is caused by warm winds from mountains near to the west of the stations. According to King, these can cause temperatures to rise more than 10 C over a few hours—and could be contributing to these unusually high readings, as they did in March 2015. "On their own they are not significant, but as part of a pattern of recent change in the Antarctic they are a cause for concern," he said.
"It is the most rapidly warming part of the Antarctic, so I wouldn't be surprised to see this record broken again within the next few years.", average annual temperatures in Antarctica range between −10 C and −60 C . However, the Antarctic Peninsula—located in Antarctica's northwest, nearest to South America—is warming faster than almost all areas on the planet, with temperatures in the area increasingin half a century.
The latest temperature record to break follows one of the warmest years on record. 2019 did not quite beat the current record holder, 2016, but came nail-bitingly close—last year's global average temperatures were 0.6 C above the 1981-2010 average and 0.04 C lower than 2016, according to
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