Cairo and Antarctica Literally had the Same Temperature Yesterday
Cairo's warm Wednesday was the same temperature as Antarctica's all time high. And people still say global warming isn't a thing?!
Temperature on the earth's southernmost and coldest continent, Antarctica, reached an all time high of 17.5 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, which was astonishingly the same temperature recorded in Cairo, a city that exists in a nation renowned for its warmth. The announcement was made by the United Nations' weather agency late Wednesday, Reuters reports.
According to USA Today, the average March temperature recorded in Antarctica between 1957 and 1988 was -54 C, indicating that the continent is becoming increasingly warmer, which is alarming scientists to the potential damage the rising temperature could have on Antarctica's ecological balance and wildlife. High temperatures recorded in Cairo around the same period usually averaged around 22C.
The melting, no-so-frozen continent, which has 90% of the earth's fresh water in the form of ice, threatens life elsewhere on earth as it would raise sea levels by 60 meters in case all of its ice melts, which will drown massive land areas around the world, with Egypt's Alexandria identified as one city under major drowning threat.
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