“The hole looks like someone punched it,” says Kent Moore, a professor of atmospheric physics at the University of Toronto.
The hole is a huge hole. She appeared in early September 2017 in the thickness of sea ice covering the Weddell Sea, a few hundred kilometers from open water. Which is very strange. Polynyas, if they do occur, are much closer to the ice boundary.
The hole was noticed on satellite images, the area was estimated - more than 80 thousand square kilometers. These are almost two Moscow regions. The Canadians, however, equated it with their Lake Superior - the largest in the Great Lakes system.
Scientists have measured the hole - it is huge.
The reason for the appearance of the current hole is still mysterious, as well as the one that formed at about the same place 40 years ago. Scientists promise to figure out what is happening there, relying on more advanced equipment, which they now possess.
The hole is most likely associated with global warming, but scientists are not too sure about this - they say, it's too early to draw conclusions. They only suspect that they are feeding the wormwood and preventing it from closing with warm water, which is taken from somewhere.
Ufologists, as always, have their own hypothesis: aliens made a wormwood, which had to take off from the bottom of the sea on a flying saucer.
The anomaly originated in the Weddell Sea.
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By the way, in early July 2017, another large-scale cataclysm happened in approximately the same area: an iceberg with an area of 6 thousand square kilometers broke away from the Larsen ice shelf - almost from Abkhazia. And it is also not yet clear whether global warming is to blame or not. But it's just obvious that something strange is happening with Antarctica.
VLADIMIR LAGOVSKY