article_snippet.sent: Antarctica has experienced Antarctica highest temperature on record, according to meteorologists.
article_snippet.sent: Sensors at Argentina's Esperanza Base on the northern tip of Antarctic Peninsula recorded a temperature of 17.5°C (63.5°F).
article_snippet.sent: a new record for the warmest temperature measured on the frozen continent was measured on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula (pictured) where the ice shelf covering the sea has declined considerably in recent years and glaciers are thought to be receding .
article_snippet.sent: The previous hottest temperature recorded in Antarctica - which is usually the coldest place on Earth - was in April 24 1961 when the temperature reached 17.1°C (62.8°F).
article_snippet.sent: This week's record temperatures were made possible by an unusually extreme jet stream contortion that brought a strong ridge of high pressure over the Antarctic Peninsula, allowing warm air from South America to push southwards over Antarctica. '
article_snippet.sent: At the surface, west to east blowing winds over the Antarctic Peninsula rose up over the 1,000-foot high mountains just to the west of Esperanza Base, then descended and warmed via adiabatic compression (without transfer of heat) into a warm foehn wind (a warm dry wind that blows down a slope).'
article_snippet.sent: Antarctica is known as the coldest place on Earth where temperatures have dropped to -93.2°C (-135.8°F) on the East Antarctic Plateau.
article_snippet.sent: However, the Antarctic Peninsula is one of the fastest warming spots on Earth.
article_snippet.sent: Currently the World Meteorological Society records the warmest temperature on the continent as being at Vanda Station on the opposite side Antarctica on 1 May 1974 when temperatures reached 15°C (59°F).
highlights_snippet.sent: Temperatures at Esperanza Base on Antarctic Peninsula reached 63.5°F .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Antarctic Peninsula is one of the fastest warming areas on the continent .