The ice covering the Arctic Ocean reached its smallest extent in 38 years this winter, NASA said this week.
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New record for cold in the northern hemisphere.
On December 22, 1991, a temperature of -69.6 ° C was recorded in Greenland, the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) announced on Wednesday, almost 29 years later.
This reading comes from a measuring station which does not belong to the usual network of temperature stations.
It was exhumed by "climate detectives" before being confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization, hence its late publication.
-89.2 ° C in Antarctica
"The record was recorded at an altitude of 3,105 meters, near the topographic summit of the ice sheet, at an automatic measuring station called Klinck," DMI said in a statement.
“There have been a huge number of heat records over the past decade and it's important to recognize the extremes,” said DMI climatologist John Cappelen.
"The possibility of obtaining a new cold record is diminishing but I cannot say that we will never record one again," he stressed.
Previously, the record in the hemisphere was -67.8 ° C and had been recorded in Russia twice in 1892 and 1933. The lowest temperature ever recorded in the world is -89.2 ° C.
The high altitude weather station in Vostok, Antarctica, has held this record since July 21, 1983.
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