Extreme heat waves and increasing ice melting occurrences have become regular subjects of concern due to global warming. In recent months, though, the opposite results have been just as startling in the South Pole.
The South Pole hasn’t been as immediately exposed to the impacts of a warming climate as its flashier cousin, the North Pole, which has become famed for its fabled holiday residents. So while climatologists are concerned about increasing temperatures and melting ice shelves, the South Pole has been largely spared from the consequences observed at the North Pole, which has experienced significant glacier melting and has even been enveloped in wildfire smoke this summer.
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However, temperatures in the huge tundra of Antarctic ice at the South Pole fell to levels never seen before this winter.
From April through September, the continent’s winter months, average temperatures at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, located on the continent’s highest plateau, dropped to 78 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (61 degrees below zero Celsius).
Source: Nature World News