Record temperatures have hit Antarctica as a region experiences dramatic changes

The temperature in a research base in Antarctica reached a record 18.3 degrees Celsius (65 degrees Fahrenheit) on Thursday, almost a degree above the previous high set five years ago. Argentine scientists on the basis Esperanza, said that confirmation reading that has not been broken, the only record of this week. The site Marambio nation has recorded the highest temperature for the month of February 1971 we thermometer 14.1 Celsius made since the previous reading in February 2013 of 13.8 degrees Celsius. The reports are shocking, but not surprising, said Frida Bengtsson, who is leading an expedition to Antarctica for the environmental group Greenpeace. “We have been for the last month in Antarctica, the dramatic changes to document this part of the world as our planet warms experienced,” he said in an e-mail. “Last month we penguin colonies have seen heavily from the effects of climate change in this new environment seemingly untouched.” Antarctica is one of the fastest warming regions of the world, the Antarctic Peninsula, where the Argentine bases are, warming particularly fast, the World Meteorological Organization. Average temperatures in the continent almost 3 degrees Celsius have increased over the past 50 years, and have withdrawn on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula glaciers during this time. WMO experts are now investigating whether the hot Argentine scientists recorded event a meteorological phenomenon known as foehn. This is a common occurrence in the Alpine regions, which are often strong winds in height and the rapid heating of the air, such as heads comprise downward slope, or tips, driven by substantial differences in air pressure, in which the WMO in a note. The WMO will also determine if the temperature is extremely a new record for the entire Antarctic continent. Signy Island in the Antarctic, which covers around the world south of 60 degrees latitude registered all time high temperature of 19.8 degrees Celsius in January 1982. The annual average temperature ranging from about -10 degrees Celsius on the coast Antarctic at -60 degrees Celsius in the highest of the interior points. -With the help of Thomas Mulier.
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