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4/11/2015

Topic Reading-Vol.1095-4/11/2015

Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Antarctica hits 63 degrees, believed to be a record
A temperature of 15.5 degrees Celsius on March 24 sounds pretty normal in places in northern America, eastern Asia or Europe. People enjoy walking and seeing flowers and greens outside and birds sing spring songs. That doesn’t usually happen in Alaska, Siberia or Scandinavia where snow and ice still cover most of the landscape. You can then imagine how extreme that temperature is in Antarctica, where the mean annual temperature of the interior is -57 °C.
Do the penguins in the photos look happy with the warm temperature? Do they look worried to have new predators arriving or emerging on their safe land?
Enjoy reading and guessing the impact of such unusual and extreme weather condition in Antarctica.

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