Antarctica Hits Record <br />High Temperature The Esperanza Base along <br />Antarctica's Trinity Peninsula recorded <br />its warmest temperature ever on <br />Thursday at 65 degrees. The new record beat out the previous highest temperature of 63.5 degrees recorded on March 24, 2015. According to 'The Washington Post,' <br />the Antarctic Peninsula is one of the <br />fastest-warming regions in the world. Temperatures in the region <br />have increased five degrees <br />in the past 50 years. According to 'The Washington Post,' <br />around 87 percent of glaciers along the <br />Antarctic Peninsula's west coast have retreated. Antarctica's record-breaking temperature <br />comes after atmospheric monitoring group <br />Copernicus revealed that January was <br />the warmest month on record globally.
