"Bigger Than Antarctica"- Experts Alarmed as This Year's Ozone Hole is Larger Than Usual

According to the experts in charge of monitoring it, the hole in the ozone layer that forms every year is "much larger than normal" and is presently larger than Antarctica.

The ozone hole in the Arctic in 2020 was likewise quite big and deep, reaching nearly three times the area of the continental United States.

Between mid-September and mid-October, the Antarctic ozone hole reaches its height. Ozone depletion decreases when temperatures increase high in the stratosphere in late spring in the southern hemisphere, the polar vortex weakens and eventually breaks down, and ozone levels generally recover to normal by December.

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