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Tourists visit Yankee Bay in the South Shetlands, Antarctica in November 2019. Image: AFP / Johan Ordóñez
The year 2020 is the hottest in the Antarctic Peninsula in the last three decades, as a study by the University of Santiago de Chile discovered this Friday.
Between January and August, temperatures reached between 2 and 3 degrees Celsius (35.6 and 37.4 degrees Fahrenheit) on the peninsula, which is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica, according to researchers at Frei Air Force Base. of Chile on the island Rey Jorge.
These temperatures are “more than 2 degrees Celsius above typical values,” said climatologist Raúl Cordero in a statement released by the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH).
“In the extreme north of the Antarctic Peninsula, the average maximum temperature so far this year has been above 0 degrees. This had not happened in 31 years, ”added Cordero.
He called that fact “alarming,” as it could indicate that the rapid rate of ocean warming observed in the area in the late 20th century is resuming.
However, the high winter temperatures in the southern hemisphere contrast with those recorded between August and September, which reached -16.8 degrees Celsius, the lowest since 1970.
The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of Antarctica, where there are scientific and military bases from several countries, including Argentina, Chile, and Great Britain. /IB
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