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Topic Reading-Vol.3644-4/3/2022
Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Extraordinary Antarctica heatwave, 70 degrees above normal, would likely set a world record
Concordia Research Station is a French-Italian joint research facility that opened in 2005. It sits about 3,200 meters above sea level on the icy continent. It takes over a week to transport cargo to the station to drive 1,200 kilometers from the sea-side research center. It is one of the three permanent, all-year research stations in Antarctica. The climate around the research station is frigid all year round. Average high temperatures in the summer months (Dec-Jan) are around minus 25 degrees Celsius and average low temperatures in the dark period (Mar-Oct) are below minus 60 degrees. Indeed, it is regarded as the coldest place on Earth. On March 18, they measured the record high temperature at minus 11.5 degrees, about 0.7 degrees warmer than the previous record of the month. It was unusually high as the average high temperature in March is about minus 48 degrees. This gap is as large as Washington DC, whose high temperature of the day was 16 degrees 16, experiencing 55 degrees all of a sudden. Though the impact of this single event won’t affect much on the overall condition of the continent, it might be another terrifying sign of global warming.
Read the article and learn about what the coldest place on Earth is like.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/28/weather/antarctica-world-record-high-temperature-anomaly-climate/index.html
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