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East Antarctica has recorded exceptionally high temperatures this week, more than 30C above normal, experts said on Twitter.

The Concordia research base, installed on Dome C of the Antarctic plateau at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, recorded Friday a record “heat” of -11.5 ° C, “absolute record all months combined, beating the – 13.7°C on December 17, 2016,” tweeted Etienne Kapikian, forecaster at Météo-France.

While temperatures should have dropped with the end of the austral summer, the Dumont