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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]
Most in a 24-hour period: 230 centimetres (90.6 in) of snow on Mount Ibuki, Japan on 14 February 1927. [ 307 ] Most in one calendar month : 9.91 meters (390 inches) of snow fell in Tamarack, California , in January 1911, leading to a snow depth in March of 11.46 meters (451 inches) (greatest measured in North America).
Two temperature records were set on February 6, one in each hemisphere, one for warmth, the other for mind-numbing cold. On Feb. 6, 2020, five years ago, Antarctica set its all-time record high of ...
Severe weather is possible within 24 to 48 hours; Visibility is greater than 300 metres (980 ft) Wind less than or equal to 45 knots (83 km/h; 52 mph) Air temperature and wind chill are above −60 °C (−76 °F) Weather Condition 2: Must meet all of the following criteria: Visibility is greater than 30 metres (98 ft)
Record of atmospheric temperature taken from EPICA ice core in Antarctica. The Antarctic Cold Reversal ( ACR ) was a climatic event of intense atmospheric and oceanic cooling across the southern hemisphere (>40°S) between 14,700 and 13,000 years before present ( BP ) that interrupted the most recent deglacial climate warming (c. 18,000-11,500 ...
Here's cold comfort: You could be in East Antarctica which new data says set a record for soul-crushing cold. Try 135.8 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. Better yet, don't.
Captain Harpreet Chandi, from Derby, covered 1,130km of the Antarctic ice in 31 days, 13 hours and 19 minutes while dragging a sled carrying all of her supplies and equipment.
Further south, Larsen D and the much smaller Larsen E, F and G are also named. [4] The breakup of the ice shelf since the mid-1990s has been widely reported, [5] with the collapse of Larsen B in 2002 being particularly dramatic. A large section of the Larsen C shelf broke away in July 2017 to form an iceberg known as A-68. [6]