Rain is coming to Antarctica – here’s how it will change the frozen continent
#Rain is rare in #Antarctica. Scientists doing fieldwork there dress for cold and glare, not wet weather – duvet jackets, snow trousers, goggles and sunscreen. Planes land on gravel runways which are rarely icy, since there is no precipitation to freeze. Historic huts remain well preserved in the dry air.
But this is beginning to change.
Rain is already falling more frequently on the narrow and mountainous Antarctic Peninsula, the northernmost finger of the continent pointing towards South America...
