On March 18, 2022, scientists at the Concordia research station in the east Antarctic recorded the largest spike in temperature ever recorded with the region experiencing a rise of 38.5C above its seasonal average.
Unfortunately, it’s not an isolated event with an increasing number of meteorologic anomalies being reported on the continent in the past two years.
The sea level rise map that was linked is interesting, I propose Hamilton to be the new international airport since both Auckland and Wellington’s will be underwater
So when this happened it looks like the record high temp was -11.5C, whereas it’s normally around -49C.
The article is light on details except:
From what I can gather there was a heat wave in eastern Antarctica in March 2022
I wonder what the timeframe were talking of here. As in, was it a heatwave for a day, month, etc.
Regardless, it’s quite amazingly shocking. They should use that number as part of some campaign, it’s that shocking.