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A t-shirt is all you would need in this Antarctica location during late-March 2015.

April 2, 2015Updated: April 2, 2015, 7:13 am EDTPublished: April 2, 2015, 7:13 am EDT

 



Antarctica may have recorded its warmest temperature on record during the final full week of March 2015.


Location of Argentina's Esperanza Base in Antarctica.


Argentina's Esperanza Base, located on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, hit 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit on March 24, 2015, according to Dr. Jeff Masters and Bob Henson of wunderground.com. Based on research done by Maximiliano Herrera, this tops the previous all-time record for the continent of 63.3 degrees Fahrenheit that was recorded the prior day at Argentina's Marambio Base.

Masters and Henson say the previous warmest temperature recorded in Antarctica was also at the Esperanza Base, when it reached 62.8 degrees Fahrenheit on April 24, 1961.

Although the Argentinian weather service has verfied these new record warm temperatures in Antarctica for the two different sites, they will still have to be certified by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) for either one of them to be official all-time records for the continent.

This is where it gets complicated, according to Christopher Burt a weather historian at wunderground.com. Burt says that there may be three to four different ways to define what is part of Antarctic continent.

Before certifying any new potential record, the WMO will first have to determine whether the locations are a part of the Antarctic continent. You can read more about this on Burt's blog at this link.

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