Record Winter Temperatures in Antarctic Raise Fears over Speed of Climate Breakdown

der Standard DE

Factuality

Ownership

At the Esperanza Base research station, a temperature of 15.4 degrees Celsius was measured. June average temperature at the station is actually minus 6.2 degrees.

Mediafax

Factuality

Ownership

A local record for June in Antarctica was recorded at the Argentine scientific base Esperanza, where the thermometers indicated 15.4°C in the interval of 5-6 June, according to AFP. The previous record for this month was 13.3°C and date from 1998. According to Jose Luis Stella, a climate specialist in the Argentine National Meteorological Service, the average maximum temperature for June in Esperanza is about -6.2°C, which highlights the excepti…

RÚV

Factuality

Ownership

An unusually high temperature has been recorded in Antarctica, breaking a 28-year-old record for the month of June. Climatologist Jose Luis Stella of the Argentine Meteorological Agency told AFP that the trend reflects ongoing warming in the region and that ice is melting at an unusual rate despite the onset of winter in the southern hemisphere. At the Argentine research station Esperanza in the northern part of Antarctica, the temperature was r…

rfj.ch

Factuality

Ownership

At the beginning of June, the Antarctic Peninsula experienced record temperatures, up to 20 degrees above the normals of the season at the edge of the southern winter, with atypical ice and rains, according to meteorologists and climatologists.

CNN Greece

Factuality

Ownership

The high temperatures recorded this month in Antarctica are causing concern, as they exceeded 15 degrees Celsius, breaking the previous winter record for the frozen continent and intensifying fears...More...