Antarctica’s hottest day ever recorded was on Tuesday, March 24, 2015, when the temperature skyrocketed to 63.5°F (17.5°C). A group of Argentinean scientists at the station located in Hope Bay, Trinity Peninsula claimed that Antarctica’s hottest day prior to March 24, was shockingly on March 23rd when the temperature hit 63.3°F (17.4°C).
Antarctica’s hottest day was on Tuesday, according to a group of Latin American scientists. March 24, 2015, the civilians and experts at the Esperanza base, which also includes an Argentinean research station in Hope Bay, Trinity Peninsula experienced temperature that hit 63.5°F (17.5°C), according to Examiner.
Researcher Maximiliano Herrera, who is living on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, made a surprising revelation. According to Mr. Herrera, the previous hottest day in Antarctica was on March 23, 2015, when the temperature climbed to 63.3°F (17.4°C).
The second warmest temperature in Antarctica was recorded by experts working in Argentina’s Marambio Base. Prior to this week’s disturbing heat wave, Antarctica’s hottest day was April 24, 1961 when the mercury shot up to 62.8°F (17.1°C).
It was also recorded at the Esperanza Base, which has been around since 1953 and can hold 55 people. Antarctica’s hottest day since 1961 has many debating climate change. Some say the currently skyrocketing temperatures in Antarctica can not be man-made because there aren’t many humans living on the continent, so it has to be natural.
However, experts may have settled the matter:
“The debate over whether global warming is natural or manmade is an artificial one: scientists know that both factors can affect the planet’s temperature. The real question is which factor is doing the heavy lifting — and a new report in Nature released Wednesday says that on the Antarctic Peninsula, at least, human-generated greenhouse gases have almost certainly been by far the most important driver of warming over the past half-century.”
What’s your take on Antarctica’s hottest day? Is climate change real?
