A nine-day heat wave scorched Antarctica's northern tip earlier this month. New NASA images reveal that nearly a quarter of an Antarctic island's snow cover melted in that time -- an increasingly common symptom of the climate crisis.
A nine-day heat wave scorched Antarctica's northern tip earlier this month. New NASA images reveal that nearly a quarter of an Antarctic island's snow cover melted in that time -- an increasingly common symptom of the climate crisis.
The images show Eagle Island on the northeastern peninsula of the icy continent at the start and end of this month's Antarctic heat wave. By the end of the nine-day heat event, much of the land beneath the island's ice cap was exposed, and pools of meltwater opened up on its surface. From a glacier break to record temperatures, Antarctica had quite the week in climate changeAntarctica experienced its hottest day on record earlier this month, peaking at 64.9 degrees Fahrenheit.
— Xavier Fettweis February 21, 2020 A perfect storm of conditions for a heat waveAs Pelot noted, melt events like this are quite rare for Antarctica, even during the summer. It's one of the coldest places on Earth. Antarctica just registered its hottest temperature everThis heat wave was the result of sustained high temperatures, he said, which almost never occurred on the continent until the 21st century.
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