Antarctic temperatures may have reached a new high in the peninsula region, prompting a formal evaluation into the conditions surrounding the event.
and said that"a committee for WMO's Weather and Climate Extremes Archive will now verify whether this indeed is a record for the Antarctic continent which is defined as the main continental landmass."
"Everything we have seen thus far indicates a likely legitimate record but we will of course begin a formal evaluation of the record once we have full data from SMN and on the meteorological conditions surrounding the event," WMO’s Weather and Climate Extremes rapporteur, Randall Cerveny, said in a statement."The record appears to be likely associated with what we call a regional 'foehn' event over the area: a rapid warming of air coming down a slope/mountain.
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