Hot poles: Parts of Antarctica hit 70 degrees warmer than normal. At the same time, parts of the Arctic were 50 degrees warmer than normal. “They are opposite seasons. You don’t see the north and the south both melting at the same time,” said a scientist.
“They are opposite seasons. You don’t see the north and the south both melting at the same time,” Meier told The Associated Press Friday evening. “It’s definitely an unusual occurrence.”“Wow. I have never seen anything like this in the Antarctic,” said University of Colorado ice scientist Ted Scambos, who returned recently from an expedition to the continent.
Lazzara monitors temperatures at East Antarctica’s Dome C-ii and logged 14 degrees Friday, where the normal is -45 degrees : “That’s a temperature that you should see in January, not March. January is summer there. That’s dramatic.” But if it happens again or repeatedly then it might be something to worry about and part of global warming, they said.The Antarctic continent as a whole on Friday was about 8.6 degrees warmer than a baseline temperature between 1979 and 2000, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, based on U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration weather models.
What makes the Antarctic warming really weird is that the southern continent — except for its vulnerable peninsula which is warming quickly and losing ice rapidly — has not been warming much, especially when compared to the rest of the globe, Meier said.
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