The United Nations officially recognized the new temperature record in Antarctica: +18.3 degrees Celsius. This value was registered at the Esperance Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula on February 6, 2020, Phys.org reports.
Antarctic Peninsula is one of the regions with the fastest warming on the planet. Over the past 50 years, he was heated for three degrees Celsius.
The new temperature record corresponds to climate change, which can be observed throughout the land. The previous record for the Antarctic continent was +17.5 degrees. It was achieved on March 24, 2015.
Record for the entire Antarctic region (region south of 60 latitude): + 19.8 degrees. It was achieved on January 30, 1982 on the island of Signs.
It is known that the Antarctic Peninsula Over the past 50 years has become a region with the most rapid warming – the average temperature level rose by almost 3 ° C.