With a normal temperature close to -50°C, the Antarctica
, the coldest continent on the planet, recorded a record temperature in March. At the Concordia Meteorological Station, located on the Antarctic plateau, thermometers recorded a maximum of -11.5 ° C, which is an increase of 38 ° C in the region.

The temperature recorded in Antarctica is “the highest at a weather station,” said University of Berkeley scientist Robert Rudy.

“It appears that the latest extraordinary heat wave in Antarctica has set a new global temperature record, the highest ever recorded by a weather station,” said Robert Rudy, an expert on climate change, on his social network.

In an interview with CNN
Randall Cervini, a professor of geographical sciences at Arizona State University and a member of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), explained that the increase in temperature represented a combination of meteorological events, such as the “wet flow of an atmospheric river.” “Extremely hot air leak, rare at this time of year, on the Antarctic Plateau”.

The arrival of moisture made it impossible for warm air to migrate to another area, allowing a heat wave in Antarctica, which had just come out of the “summer” season.

Etienne Kapikian, a meteorologist at Meteo-France – France’s national weather service – said the temperature recorded at Concordia was an “absolute record”, unprecedented in 60 years of data collected by the institution.