An intense heatwave in Antarctica has sent temperatures soaring 70 degrees above average, and scientists say it could be a record.

The intense heat was recorded at the Concordia Research station, which is known to be the coldest place on earth… where the normal high usually sits around minus 49 Celsius.

On March 18, the temperature soared to minus 11.5 Celsius, which is a massive 38 Celsius warmer than the average.

The World Meteorological Organisation doesn’t track the differences in normal temperatures per se, but if it did, it would likely be a world record.

And Concordia wasn’t the only research station to suffer through the heatwave, with Russia’s Vostok also 18 degrees warmer that day.