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Nearly all of Antarctica is covered by a sheet of ice that is, on average, at least 1,500 m (5,000 ft) thick. Antarctica contains 90% of the world's ice and more than 70% of its fresh water. If all the land-ice covering Antarctica were to melt—around 30 × 10 ^ 6 km 3 (7.2 × 10 ^ 6 cu mi) of ice—the seas would rise by over 60 m (200 ft). [22]
June 14–October 1,739 [5] 3: Afghanistan floods: May—August 670 [6] 4: Nigeria floods: May—October 612 [7] 5: KwaZulu-Natal floods: April 8–21 435 6: Petrópolis floods: February 15 231 7: Tropical Storm Megi: April 8–12 214 (+132 missing) 8: Kinshasa floods: December 12–13 169 9: Hurricane Ian: September 23-October 1, 2022 161 10 ...
By October there is the last sunset of the year, and a period of 24-hour daylight begins. More staff and researchers arrive, and the population of the station increases. [ 110 ] Staff and resources flow through McMurdo to research projects in Antarctica, including the opening of the ice road to the South Pole and ski cargo planes bringing ...
The maximum recorded at Concordia on 17 March was -16.9 °C Pending the final data, in Vostok the value of -20.3 °C set the new monthly record but also exceeds the maximum of February (-22.2 °C ...
The mean annual temperature is −4 °C (25 °F) although within the last decade, temperatures have risen with much of it in winter and autumn. [ 8 ] Being located in the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula , the climate is dominated by the low pressure systems that develop over the Pacific Ocean and move eastwards towards the peninsula ...
During the previous in March 2022, temperatures in some locations reached up to 70 degrees above normal, the most extreme temperature departures ever recorded in this part of the planet.
The coldest month was August 1987 with a mean temperature of −75.4 °C (−103.7 °F) and the warmest month was December 1989 with a mean temperature of −28 °C (−18 °F). [ 25 ] In addition to the extremely cold temperatures, other factors make Vostok one of the most difficult places on Earth for human habitation:
In May the global average temperature was 1.52 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average, marking the 11th consecutive month where the global average temperature was at least 1.5 degrees ...