Anomalous warming simultaneously in Antarctica and the Arctic scared scientists

In Antarctica on March 18, the average temperature was 4.8 °C above normal. The highest recorded temperature was 7°C at the coastal station of Zucchelli in Terra Nova Bay. But earlier it was reported that Antarctica is on the verge of disaster.

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The largest temperature difference was recorded at the Concordia research station, located at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters above sea level, where the researchers measured a peak temperature of minus 12.2 ° C, which is almost 40 ° C higher than the average seasonal value at the station.

Temperatures rise sharply in Antarctica / Photo: facebook/igor.neverovsky

Elsewhere, at the Russian station Vostok, which in 1983 experienced the lowest recorded temperature in the world – minus 89.2 ° C, the temperature was minus 17.7 ° C, exceeding the highest temperature of all time at Vostok at 15°C.

In the Arctic, the average temperature on the same day was 3.3°C above normal, and in some areas near the North Pole the temperature rose 30°C above normal, writes Associated Press.

Scientists are sounding the alarm due to abnormal warming at the Earth’s poles / Photo: Pixabay

It is very rare to see high temperatures in both polar regions at the same time, because they have contrasting seasons – when the Arctic is just beginning to thaw in the Northern Hemisphere, winter sets in in Antarctica.

Individual extreme weather events are difficult to attribute directly to climate change. However, experts predict that such events will become more frequent and extreme in the future unless current greenhouse gas emissions are drastically reduced.

Earlier we wrote that the bodies of the dead climbers were exposed due to the rapid melting of Everest’s glaciers. Human-induced climate change is causing the glaciers on the highest mountain on Earth to melt.