update 2025-03-08 : TheWorld Meteorological Organizationhas since reject this recording , claim an improvised radiotherapy shield led to a thermal preconception error for the temperature sensor .
Just days after mainland Antarctica tipped a record temperature of 18.3 ° hundred ( 64.9 ° F ) , there are unused reports of yet another record in the area : a positively pleasant air temperature of 20.75 ° C ( 69.35 ° F ) , the hottest temperature ever tape on Din Land in Antarctica .
Brazilian scientists clocked the unexampled book zephyr temperature on Seymour Island in West Antarctica on February 9 , 2020.Speaking toThe Guardian , which first broke the news , Carlos Schaefer , a Brazilian government scientist who studies permafrost in Antarctica , described the new record as “ unbelievable and abnormal ” .
“ We are seeing the warming drift in many of the sites we are monitoring , but we have never seen anything like this , ” he add up .
The numbers still require to be support and double - tick by the World Meteorological Society ( WMO ) before it can be considered prescribed . If correct , it will thump the previous record high temperature on non - mainland Antarctica of 19.8 ° C ( 67.64 ° F ) , which was taken onSigny Islandin January 1982 .
As mentioned , an unconfirmed new mainland record temperatureof 18.3 ° century ( 64.9 ° farad ) was registered at the Argentine enquiry radix , Esperanza , on the northerly tip of the south-polar peninsula on February 6 . This infract the previous senior high of 17.5 ° coulomb ( 63.5 ° atomic number 9 ) recorded on March 24 , 2015 .
Antarctica is a colossal container and has huge variations in temperatures across its geographical compass . The average annual temperature graze from about -10 ° C ( -14 ° farad ) on the Antarctic seashore to -60 ° C ( -76 ° F ) at the deepest points of its interior . These late record - breakers were show on or around the Antarctic Peninsula , a strip of land that stab out ofthe northmost part of mainland Antarctica like a tail .
The Modern record should not be instantly conflated with mood variety , which should be understood as a foresightful - term trend rather than a one - off information head . Speaking about record temperatures on mainland Antarctica this calendar month , WMO Weather and Climate Extremes rapporteur Randall Cervenyexplained : “ The record looks like likely associated ( in the short term ) with what we call a regional ‘ foehn ’ upshot over the country : a rapid thaw of air come down a slope / mountain . check of this maximum temperature record is important because it helps us to build up a pic of the weather and climate in one of Earth ’s final frontiers . ”
With that say , the all-encompassing trend of warming is vindicated to see in Antarctica and beyond . In July last year , a townspeople in northern Sweden hit 34.8 ° C ( 94.6 ° F ) , achieving the nation ’s highest temperature ever recordedwithin the Arctic Circle .
Last month wasthe warmest Januaryever recorded on Earth , register both the highest global land and ocean surface temperature since records began in 1880 . The freakishly tender January 2020 was also off the back of a worryingly warm year , which was part of anexceptionally affectionate 10 .
