Antarctica Experiences Hottest Summer in 31 Years

Antarctica Experiences Hottest Summer in 31 Years
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The Antarctic Peninsula which goes by the name Tierra de San Martin in Argentina and O'Higgins Land in Chile, and originally as Palmer Peninsula in the United States of America and Graham Land in the United Kingdom, is the northern most part of the Antarctica. The Peninsula has experienced the hottest summer in the last 31 years in 2020.

The temperature had reached between 2 and 3 degrees Celsius (35.6 and 37.4 degrees Fahrenheit) between January and August, as reported by the researchers at the Chilean Air Force's Frei Base on King George Island.

Raul Cordero, a climatologist with Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH) released a statement that “Those temperatures are more than 2 degrees Celsius over typical values."

He called this fact as ‘alarming’. The reason being it could mean that the rapid rate of ocean warming observed in the area at the end of the 20th century is resuming, he further added.