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		</div><p>The temperature in northern Antarctica hit nearly 65 degrees (18.3 degrees Celsius), a likely heat record on the continent.</p>
<p>The reading was taken on Thursday at an Argentine research base and still needs to be verified by the World Meteorological Organisation.</p>
<p><em>“Everything we have seen thus far indicates a likely legitimate record,”</em> Randall Cerveny, who researches records for the organisation, said in a statement.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Animation of T850 in °C (temperature at 850hPa) showing this heat wave over the Antarctic Peninsula. This will be followed tomorrow by an interesting foehn event according to GFS. <a href="https://t.co/IbZ2KFKuxM">https://t.co/IbZ2KFKuxM</a> <a href="https://t.co/J195ZAw1lY">pic.twitter.com/J195ZAw1lY</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Xavier Fettweis (@xavierfettweis) <a href="https://twitter.com/xavierfettweis/status/1225798340123725824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>He added that he is waiting for full data to confirm.</p>
<p>The research base, called Esperanza, sits on a peninsula that juts up toward the southern tip of South America.</p>
<p>The peninsula has warmed significantly over the past half century — almost 5.4 degrees (3 C), according to the World Meteorological Organisation.</p>
<p>Mr Cerveny said the unusually high temperature was likely due, in the short term, to a rapid warming of air coming down from a mountain slope.</p>
<p>The previous record of 63.5 degrees (17.5 C) was set in March 2015.</p>
<p>Climate change is heating up Antarctica and the Arctic — the Earth’s polar regions — faster than other regions of the planet.</p>
<p>The Arctic is warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the globe, according to an annual report published in December by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.</p>
<p>There is no similar yearly report for Antarctica.</p>
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