Scientists shocked. Antarctic temperatures break a record

The coldest place on the planet, Antarctica, experienced a bout of warmer weather this week than ever before.

According to scientists, temperatures rose from 50 to 90 degrees above normal on the ice sheet in East Antarctica, breaking records, which surprised scientists.

“This event is completely unprecedented, and meets our expectations for the Antarctic climate system,” researcher Jonathan Wiley, who studies polar meteorology at Grenoble Alpes University in France, said in an email.

Antarctica is the fifth largest continent in the world after the continents of Asia, Africa, North America and South America. It is one of the coldest regions in the world, and it is the largest mass of ice on Earth, with an area of ​​14 million square kilometers, which is about one and a half times the size of the United States of America.

It is one of the longest mountain ranges on Earth, extending for a distance of 3,500 km. It is one of the mountains in the Antarctic. It reaches a height of about 3,000 meters and extends to a distance of 750 km. These mountains were buried under nearly 4,800 meters of ice, in addition to the mountains buried in Antarctica There is a whole lake buried under 3.7 kilometers under the ice and this lake is called Lake Vostok and it is a lake of pure fresh water.

The Antarctic is the coldest place in the whole world, where the temperature at the Vostok station in Antarctica reached 89.2 degrees Celsius, and the dry valleys in Antarctica are the driest on earth, due to low humidity, and these medicines are almost free of Snow or ice cover.

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