Antarctica temperature 70 degrees above normal would set world record
Scientists were shocked this month when a research station in Antarctica reported extraordinarily warm weather.
The temperature at Concordia Research station atop Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau -- typically known as the coldest place on Earth -- surged to an astounding 11.3 degrees Fahrenheit on March 18.
The normal high temperature for the day is around minus-56, which puts the March 18 reading at around 70 degrees warmer than normal.
If the World Meteorological Organization actually tracked this particular metric, scientists say it would likely set a world record.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/antarctica-temperature-70-degrees-above-normal-would-set-world-record/ar-AAVBdxv
Antarctic ice shelves are shattering. How fast will seas rise?
All scientist Erin Pettit could see when she looked at the satellite photos of the ice shelf in front of the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica was the giant crack that stretched across most of the image.
Two years before, when she and her colleagues were deciding where to put their research camp, the entire floating ice shelf—a tongue of ice poking out from the enormous glacier behind it—was solid. It was plenty safe to plan a camp there, they thought.
But last December, when they were preparing to go to the camp, the images revealed enormous cracks in the ice pointing straight at it.
It was unlikely the cracks would grow fast enough to endanger them. But to Pettit, it signified something even scarier: the start of ice shelf's disintegration, which is a step toward a larger disintegration of the glacier itself.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/antarctic-ice-shelves-are-shattering-how-fast-will-seas-rise/ar-AAVBde3
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