ArabiaWeather.com - Naser Haddad - a website There have been many reports recently about the melting of some parts of the western Antarctic, and the most common cause was global heat, so what is the real reason behind that melting?
What we see through satellite images does not ever reflect what is in the depths of that continent. What we notice is the ice cover by 98% of the total area of the pole, and it set records this year that are considered the highest since the beginning of climate records in 1979 in terms of ice area.
A map showing the sources and locations of thermal energy underground in the western part of the pole.
At the same time, there are active volcanoes beneath that ice. Through a recent study, it was discovered that these volcanoes "under the ground" melted some of the western part of Antarctica.
The flow of warm water currents was observed in the western region at a rate of 3 times the normal rate in that region, and it was responsible for the collapse in the ice expanses, and not as it was recently rumored, as the earth is currently going through a period of global cooling, and it has become quite clear how extreme the weather is around the world.
Wind direction in the western part of Antarctica.
Some other studies go about the air currents in the Pacific Ocean in that western region, and unusual northerly winds are observed. Of course, it will have a warm source, as the wind temperature, according to the attached picture, reached +4.9 degrees Celsius, due to the presence of a strong air vortex that caused the wind to deviate in this way.
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