Antarctica:- A study by the University of Santiago de Chile found that 2020 is the hottest in the Antarctic Peninsula in the past three decades. Between January and August, temperatures reached between 2 and 3 degrees Celsius on the peninsula, which is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. Those temperatures are “more than 2 degrees Celsius over typical values,” climatologist Raul Cordero said in a statement released by the Chilean Antarctic Institute.
He called that fact “alarming,” since it could indicate that the rapid rate of ocean warming observed in the area at the end of the 20th century is resuming. The high Southern Hemisphere winter temperatures are in contrast, however, with those registered 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 Britain.
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