One Antarctic ice shelf gets half its annual snowfall in just 10 days
Extreme storms may skew what ice cores can tell us about past and future climates
![Antarctic Peninsula](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/032619_cg_antarcticsnow_feat_free.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
SNOWY SCENE Brief, intense storms originating in the Southern Ocean can dump heavy snow on some parts of Antarctica, such as the Antarctic Peninsula (shown).
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