Remember in a previous article I mentioned that Antarctica and Siberia are going to melt off? Here is the evidence in action.Though climate change is crazy south or north of the arctic and antarctic circles it is changing in really insane ways north of the arctic circle and south of the antarctic circle as you can see here.
Hits 63 in Antarctica
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Adelie penguins on a block of melting ice at Cape Denison, Commonwealth
Bay, in East Antarctica. Thomson Reuters An Argentine research base
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Antarctic
weather and 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit never went together until now. The
World Metrological Organization officially announced …
Antarctica hits record high temperature of 63.5°F
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Two Adelie penguins on a block of melting ice at Cape
Denison, Commonwealth Bay, in East Antarctica.
Thomson Reuters
An Argentine research base near the northern tip of the Antarctic peninsula has set a heat record at a balmy 63.5° Fahrenheit (17.5 degrees Celsius), the U.N. weather agency said on Wednesday.
The Experanza base set the high on March 24, 2015, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said after reviewing data around Antarctica to set benchmarks to help track future global warming and natural variations.
"Verification of maximum and minimum temperatures help us to build up a picture of the weather and climate in one of Earth’s final frontiers," said Michael Sparrow, a polar expert with the WMO co-sponsored World Climate Research Programme.
Antarctica locks up 90 percent of the world's fresh water as ice and would raise sea levels by about 60 meters (200 ft) if it were all to melt, meaning scientists are concerned to know even about extremes around the fringes.
The heat record for the broader Antarctic region, defined as anywhere south of 60 degrees latitude, was 19.8°C (67.6°F) on Jan. 30, 1982 on Signy Island in the South Atlantic, it said.
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Wednesday's WMO report only examined the highs.
The lowest temperature set anywhere on the planet was a numbing -89.2°C (-128.6°F) at the Soviet Union's Vostok station in central Antarctica on July 21, 1983.
Reporting by Alister Doyle; Editing by Louise Ireland.
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