Antarctica just hit 65 degrees, its warmest temperature ever recorded
Source: Washington Post
February 7 at 10:56 AM
Just days after the earth saw its warmest January on record, Antarctica has broken its warmest temperature ever recorded. A reading of 65 degrees was taken Thursday at Esperanza Base along Antarctica’s Trinity Peninsula, making it the ordinarily frigid continent’s highest measured temperature in history.
The Argentine research base is on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Randy Cerveny, who tracks extremes for the World Meteorological Organization, called Thursday’s reading a “likely record,” although the mark will still have to be officially reviewed and certified.
The balmy reading beats out the previous record of 63.5 degrees, which occurred March 24, 2015.
The Antarctic Peninsula, on which Thursday’s anomaly was recorded, is one of the fastest-warming regions in the world. In just the past 50 years, temperatures have surged a staggering 5 degrees in response to earth’s swiftly warming climate. Around 87 percent of glaciers along the peninsula’s west coast have retreated in that time, the majority doing so at an accelerated pace since 2008.
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But it's all good
Been around, like forever with their spaced out conclusions...
Gravity may in fact, just be an illusion. Kinda like cold doesn't exist, but heat does.
That's a good play, 'cause evolution gives the illusion of design. 
It's like being an idiot has been a time honored tradition for some.
It's colder here...among the Palm Trees... than in Antarctica! 
Above: County-by-county temperature rankings for the contiguous U.S. for the period November 2019 through January 2020. Out of the 3134 counties and county equivalents (such as parishs) in the Lower 48 states, not a single one had a temperature significantly below the 20th-century average for the three-month period. The vast majority of counties came in well above average. (NOAA/NCEI)
The first two months of meteorological winter (December 2019 – January 2020) were the warmest on record for the contiguous U.S. in data going back to 1895. NOAA provided the January data and images on Thursday ahead of its monthly U.S. climate report.
The average national temperature for the first two of winter’s three months was 35.95°F, topping the 35.82°F observed in Dec. 2005 – Jan. 2006.
Across the contiguous U.S., this winter so far is running about 4.5°F warmer than the average winter of the 20th century.
